We're hiring a Junior Portfolio Counsel to lead monitoring of our growing portfolio of litigation finance investments. You’ll be joining a growing team of engineers, lawyers, and data scientists to make real-time decisions in a fast-paced environment.

In this role, you will own 100+ of our existing litigation finance investments, reporting directly to the leader of Legalist’s Investment Monitoring team. Our portfolio requires activemanagement by someone able to combine commercial savvy with legal common sense.

This is a front-office position for someone looking to apply legal skills to managing a large number of investment positions. This person quickly becomes comfortable (in addition to monitoring underlying commercial litigation) with analyzing contracts, assisting in negotiations with counterparties, and creatively resolving disputes – all with an eye to optimally exiting our investment positions. 

If you are a commercially minded attorney who enjoys hard work and new challenges, this may be the job for you; if you’ve ever answered a question with “I’m not that kind of attorney” – or “I’m just an attorney” – this would probably not be a good fit.

Core responsibilities:

• Serve as a primary contact with our investment counterparties and monitor progress of underlying cases
• Report investment progress to internal stakeholders and help solve any problems that arise with investments for internal and external escalation
• Work with colleagues on our Underwriting, Finance, and Investor Relations teams on evaluation and quarterly reporting of investment positions
• Actively contribute to the valuation process for our litigation finance investments

Qualifications:

• J.D. from an accredited law school
• 2+ years litigation, restructuring, or similar experience
• Prior experience at an investment adviser, financial firm, or with a high-volume case load are pluses

We are looking for an Investment Manager to join our growing investment team. You'll be responsible for leading and driving sales engagement and should be highly motivated to solve critical challenges facing our counterparties. If you’re looking to take your career to the next level  and join a collaborative, dynamic company, this opportunity from Legalist could be the one for you.

Core responsibilities:

• Pursue revenue boosting opportunities in multiple channels such as direct prospecting, lead follow-up, networking, and partner / channel relationships.
• Design, develop, and execute on mutual action plans to form a winning closing strategies.
• Form value propositions to prospective partners that appeal to their needs and requirements, eventually growing the professional relationship and further anticipating business needs. 
• Harmonize efforts with other functional teams in the organization. You'll be more effective at your job over time, as you learn the answers to questions without having to ask the rest of the team.
• Build and maintain relationships with partners and third parties to increase Legalist's opportunities.

Required experience for this role:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Communication, or related field desirable or equivalent experience from an accredited institution. 
• 1 - 2 years experience in an Inside Sales/Business Development position.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Self-driven, results-oriented with a positive outlook and a clear focus on high quality and business profit.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.

Where You Come In:

• Help to design and implement the architecture of a large-scale crawling system
• Design, implement, and maintain various components of our data acquisition infrastructure (building new crawlers, maintain existing crawlers, data cleaners & loaders)
• Work on developing tools to facilitate the scraping at scale, monitor the health of crawlers and ensure data quality of the scraped items. 
• Collaborate with our product and business teams to understand / anticipate requirements to strive for greater functionality and impact in our data gathering systems 

What you’ll be bringing to the team:

• 3+ Years experience with Python for data wrangling and cleaning
• 2+ Years experience with data crawling & scraping at scale (100+ spiders at least)
• Productionized experience with Scrapy is mandatory. Distributed crawling and advanced scrapy experience are a plus.
• Familiarity with scraping libraries and monitoring tools highly recommended (BeautifulSoup, Xpaths, Selenium, Puppeteer, Splash)
• Familiarity with data pipelining to integrate scraped items into existing data pipelines.
• Experience extracting data from multiple disparate sources including HTML, XML, REST, GraphQL, PDF, and spreadsheets.
• Experience running, monitoring and maintaining a large set of broad crawlers (100+ spiders) 
• Sound Knowledge in bypassing Bot Detection Techniques
• Experience using techniques to protect web scrapers against site ban, IP leak, browser crash, CAPTCHA and proxy failure.
• Experience with cloud environments like GCP, AWS, as well as containerization tools like Docker and orchestration such as kubernetes or others.
• Ability to maintain all aspects of a scraping pipeline end to end (building and maintaining spiers, avoiding bot prevention techniques, data cleaning and pipelining, monitoring spider health and performance).
• OOP, SQL and Django ORM basics

Even better if you have, but not necessary:

• Experience with microservices architecture would be a plus.
• Familiarity with message brokers such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc
• Experience with DevOps
• Expertise in data warehouse maintenance, specifically with Google BigQuery (ETLs, data sourcing, modeling, cleansing, documentation, and maintenance)
• Familiarity with job scheduling & orchestration frameworks - e.g. Jenkins, Dagster, Prefect

We are hiring a General Counsel to oversee legal, compliance, and regulatory matters at Legalist. You’ll institute best practices across our investment and corporate functions and work with our executive team to prevent, mitigate, and resolve legal issues and manage counterparty, operational, and other risks. The role will report to our Chief Operating Officer (and current General Counsel).

Responsibilities:

• Oversee domestic and foreign fund formation across jurisdictions and coordinate with back office colleagues on related tax, regulatory, and similar issues
• Assist HR colleagues on employment- and recruiting-related matters
• Work with IR colleagues with preparing compliant fundraising and investor reporting materials and practices
• Institute and enforce optimal processes for outside counsel engagement, counterparty and investor NDAs, and similar operational matters
• Oversee responses to regulatory inquiries, defensive litigation, and related matters

Qualifications:

• Prior inhouse experience at an SEC-registered investment adviser, preferably one managing alternative assets
• 5+ years’ experience in non-transactional private practice (e.g., bankruptcy/restructuring or litigation)
• Demonstrated ability to counsel senior stakeholders on novel, uncertain, and urgent matters and obtain optimal resolutions to same
• High EQ and ability to generate both consensus and compliance from colleagues across teams
• Operationally savvy, practical, and able to thrive in a rapidly growing company
• Multiple years’ experience in a fully remote company strongly preferred

Looking for an engineering role that’s more than just coding? If you’re someone who loves solving complex problems, thrives on critical thinking, and has an entrepreneurial spark, Legalist is looking for our next Software Engineer. This is your chance to blend your technical skills with business strategy, ideal for engineers who see the big picture and want to make an impact beyond the screen.

What You'll Be Doing:

-Innovate & Elevate:Spearheading our research and development efforts, designing technology that supports novel investment strategies. This is about building smarter, not just building more.

- Strategize & Collaborate: Work closely with subject matter experts across the company to come up with new technology solutions. Your contributions will shape the direction of the business as a whole, with lots of opportunity for impact as you’ll be working directly with one of the founders.

- Data and Research-Driven Discovery:Develop tools to extract and enrich data from diverse sources. Use cutting edge technologies in your work. Your team is a startup within a startup.

What You Bring to the Table:

- Tech-Savvy & Curious: You have a solid foundation in computer science and deep curiosity for solving challenging problems. You’re not just looking to code—you’re looking to innovate.

- Proven Experience: 4+ years of experience in an object-oriented language (Python is our go-to), advanced SQL skills, and familiarity with various databases.

- Cloud Knowledge: You’re comfortable in cloud environments like GCP and AWS, and have hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, BigQuery, and other cloud solutions.

- Pragmatic & Strategic: You’re data-driven and pragmatic, understanding that technology is a means to an end. You can balance technical excellence with practical business needs.

- Quick Thinker & Team Player: You learn fast, think on your feet, and aren’t afraid to ask the tough questions. You enjoy collaborating and know that the best solutions come from diverse perspectives.

Why This Role?

This isn’t your typical engineering job. It’s a role for those who want to use their technical skills to drive business success. You’ll be working on projects that matter, in an environment that values creativity, collaboration, and strategic thinking. Whether you’re aiming to be a future founder or simply want to see the broader impact of your work, this role offers the challenge and opportunity you’re looking for.

We are looking for aTransactional Team Lead (LFA Side)to lead our growing team. You’ll be responsible for overseeing the entire litigation financing agreement process. You should be a strategic thinker and demonstrate proficiency in developing transaction plans. 

Responsibilities:

• Developing and implementing transaction deals. 
• Overseeing every LFA that we currently handle & negotiate. 
• Ability to multitask and handle many deals simultaneously.
• Evaluating dates, agreement options, and preparing strategic direction for better practices. 
• Build and maintain relationships with partners and third parties to increase Legalist's opportunities.

Qualification:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Communication, or related field desirable or equivalent experience from an accredited institution. 
• J.D. from top 20 law schools. 
• 5+ years experience of working in a role involving negotiation of a large volume of deals. 
• 5+ years sales/transactional experience
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Self-driven, results-oriented with a positive outlook and a clear focus on high quality and business profit.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.

Legalist is seeking a diligent Head of Investment Operations to join its innovative and growing team. Overseeing 500+ investments across niche strategies like litigation finance, DIP financing, and government receivables, the Head of Operations will implement novel processes for unique asset classes and investment structures. The head of Operations will bring operational expertise and first-principles thinking to drive excellence, and will work directly with our CIO and co-founder to shape the future of alternative investments.

Responsibilities

• Innovative Implementation:Partner with Portfolio Managers to design and implement cutting-edge processes, while continuously validating and refining existing ones to stay ahead in the industry.
• Continuous Improvement:Maintain a meticulous error log to identify areas for enhancement, driving a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Proactive Problem-Solving:Act swiftly to address any operational challenges. This includes creating and delivering additional training, reworking processes, and providing guidance to ensure adherence to best practices.
• Strategic Evaluation:Regularly assess and enhance processes and procedures for accuracy and efficiency, ensuring our operations are always at their peak performance.

Qualifications

• People Management Experience: You've managed teams before and know how to get the best out of people. 
• Detail-Oriented: You love getting into the weeds of the day-to-day and can take a player-coach approach to leading others. You should be extremely organized and possess strong time management skills. 
• Proven Experience:10-15 years in a highly operational organization where smooth operations are key. Experience in the asset management, wealth advisory, and/or RIA industry is a huge plus.
• High EQ: You have the emotional intelligence to work well with others at varying levels of seniority when implementing processes, always keeping in mind the common goal. You’re well-versed in building rapport across teams and maintaining consistent adherence to procedures. 

We are looking for a Legal Analyst to assist our Government Receivables underwriting team with legal due diligence and investment monitoring on our newest private credit strategy. You’ll be joining a growing team of engineers, lawyers, and data scientists to make real-time decisions in a fast-paced environment. If you come from a background in law, forensic investigations/accounting, fraudor compliance examination, or similar fieldsand are interested in working at a technology powered investment firm, we highly encourage you to apply. 

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate underwriting of potential Government Receivable investments, including conducting counterparty due diligence and borrower interviews
• Organize underwriting and monitoring efforts across a growing portfolio of revolving loans
• Draft investment memoranda summarizing results of financial and legal underwriting and strengths and weaknesses of potential investments
• Assist in tasks across functions including: origination, underwriting, structuring, portfolio management, operations, technology and marketing.

Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, History, Political Science, Mathematics, or related field with desirable or equivalent experience from a top-tier institution
• 3+ years of experience in white-collar crime/investigations, compliance or fraud examination, forensic analysis, or similar fields
• Experience in financial statement analysis, financial modeling or financial valuation; preparing financial information, interpreting financial performance or assessing risk exposure
• Ability to articulate complex financial and legal concepts and information in both verbal and written forms
• Excellent organizational skills and high attention to detail
• Ability to work seamlessly in a cross-functional team environment spanning multiple disciplines
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous and fast paced startup environment

We're hiring aPortfolio Counselto lead monitoring of our growing portfolio of litigation finance investments. You’ll be joining a growing team of engineers, lawyers, and data scientists to make real-time decisions in a fast-paced environment.

In this role, you willownour existing 200+ litigation finance investments, reporting directly to our Managing Director and weekly to our Chief Investment Officer. Our portfolio requiresactivemanagement by someone able to combine commercial savvy with legal nous.

This is afront-officeposition for someone looking to apply legal skills to managing a large number of investment positions. This person is comfortable (in addition to monitoring underlying commercial litigation) with analyzing contracts, negotiating with counterparties, and resolving disputes – all with an eye to optimally exiting our investment positions. 

If you are a commercially minded generalist who enjoys hard work and new challenges, this may be the job for you; if you’ve ever answered a question with “I’m not that kind of attorney” – or “I’m just an attorney” – this would probably not be a good fit.

Core responsibilities:

• Serve as primary contact with our investment counterparties and monitor progress of underlying cases
• Report investment progress to internal stakeholders and evaluate problem investments for internal and external escalation
• Work with colleagues on our Finance and Investor Relations teams on quarterly reporting of investment positions
• Own the valuation process for our litigation finance investment, including serving on the company’s Valuation Committee

Qualifications:

• J.D. from an accredited law school
• 6+ years litigation, restructuring, or similar experience, including prior inhouse experience
• Prior experience at an investment adviser or financial firm a plus

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Health, dental, and vision
• Annual Company Retreat
• Twelve paid vacation days plus ten bankable federal holidays

Legalist is adding aSoftware Engineer to our growing tech team. You'll work closely with our other engineers to build and ship key features. You'll directly influence our entire tech stack, from standards to frameworks to architecture. We're looking for people who will naturally take ownership of data products and who can bring a project all the way from a fast prototype to production.

Responsibilities

• Contribute towards improving Legalist’s internal data processing tools and frameworks
• Collaborate with teammates to design data pipelines and APIs, seeking and offering feedback along the way.
• Build tools to extract data from various sources to enrich the data that we collect - we ingest a lot of data! 

Key Qualifications

• A love for technology, API’s, and an insatiable curiosity for tackling problems
• 4+ years of experience object-oriented language - Python (preferred)
• Advanced SQL knowledge and experience working with a variety of databases
• Experience with cloud environments like GCP, AWS, as well as cloud solutions like Kubernetes, Docker, BigQuery, etc
• You have a pragmatic, data-driven mindset and are not dogmatic or overly idealistic about technology choices and trade-offs
• You have an aptitude for learning new things quickly and have the confidence and humility to ask clarifying questions

• Develop, maintain, and refine sophisticated financial models in Excel to support investment decisions, negotiations, and portfolio management.
• Monitor and analyze loan budgets and milestones.
• Conduct detailed credit risk analyses, evaluating borrower reorganization viability, market conditions, and collateral quality to inform underwriting decisions and negotiations.
• Collaborate with the investment and risk management teams to provide data-driven insights and recommendations.
• Prepare and present reports to senior management on portfolio performance, risk exposure, and investment opportunities.
• Stay abreast of market trends and potential impacts on portfolio risk and investment opportunities.
• Enhance loan origination and monitoring processes.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field is required; advance degrees are highly regarded.
• 3-5 years’ experience in financial analysis, modeling, and risk assessment in a finance, banking, or private credit environment.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, including experience with building complex financial models.
• Familiarity with data visualization is valued.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with a keen eye for detail.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex financial information to non-finance stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Demonstrated track record of managing multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines.
• Valued traits include flexibility, humility, a growth mindset, and a good sense of humor.

We’re looking for a driven Assistant Fund Controller to join our lean Finance team at Legalist. Reporting to our Director of Finance, our Assistant Fund Controller will work directly with fund administrators, custodians, and limited partners as well as collaborate extensively with the middle and front offices . Our ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, remote and team environment in an exciting and growing organization. 

Responsibilities

Accounting

• Prepare and review month-end NAV packages including income statement and balance sheet

reconciliations. Coordinate with fund administrators and custodians to resolve month-end

breaks.

• Prepare and review shadow allocations to independently verify P&L allocation

management fees, performance allocations, net returns and internal rate of returns across all

investors. 

• Oversee and review expense accruals, expense cash payments and budgeting on a

monthly/quarterly basis.

• Review investment contracts and amendments to calculate interest income and other profit.

Review key terms such as maturity date, interest rate (cash/PIK), par amount, other fees,

other terms etc.  Prepare and review investment payoff statements and similar reporting. 

Financial Reporting/Investor Relations

• Oversee and review investor capital activity calculations/statements, quarterly investor 

capital and withdrawal statements and monthly/quarterly fund returns.  Coordinate and 

handle investor inquiries with Director of Finance related to fund performance as well as 

other ad-hoc requests, including investor confirmations.

• Assist in investor subscription onboarding and fund setup with custodians and fund

administrators.

• Coordinate/review all internal and external investors transfers with limited partners.
• Review year-end financial statements prepared in accordance with US GAAP   

Compliance/Tax

• Assist in preparing Forms ADV and PF
• Prepare Quarterly VAT UK tax filings and annual returns.
• Prepare and review investor due diligence questionnaires and other reporting templates

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in business administration, accounting, finance or related field
• Strong Excel skills required.
• 2-4 years of fund accounting experience
• Proven ability to thrive in a high-growth entrepreneurial work environment
• Excellent communication skills with team members above and below.
• Ability to learn, accept feedback and improve.

Preferred Qualifications 

• CPA or CPA candidate preferred
• Knowledge of investment company US GAAP preferred
• Familiarity with Airtable databases a plus 

We're looking for a detail oriented, results driven, Executive Assistant that thrives working in start-up environments and is well versed in providing executive support. The ideal candidate for this role has a track record of operating with a sense of urgency, exceling independently with ambiguous tasks, prioritizing effectively, staying organized, and demonstrating flexibility with their work hours (providing support when needed in the evenings and on weekends).

As an Executive Assistant, you'll be providing support to one of Legalist's co-founders who splits his time between two fast-growing organizations. This is a critical position that will have a lot of autonomy in an effort to help optimize for the efficiency and accuracy of our operations. 

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative assistance, such as writing and editing emails, drafting memos, creating agendas, and preparing communications on the executive’s behalf
• Take notes during meetings and maintain comprehensive and accurate records
• Perform minor human resources duties such as managing expense reports and assisting with new-hire onboarding
• Organize meetings, including scheduling, and sending reminders
• Manage the business’ relationship with software vendors by maintaining payments, archiving contracts, negotiating discounts, and rolling out implementations
• Manage the executive’s calendar, including making appointments and prioritizing the most sensitive matters
• Manage miscellaneous one-off tasks such as setting up insurance policies, ordering catering, or planning a company event
• Create new strategy and processes to help the executive stay organized and work with optimal efficiency

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience working as an assistant to an executive
• Available during off hours
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Discretion with sensitive information

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a startup environment and/or with a capital or investment group
• Experience supporting an executive that splits his or her time between multiple organizations

• Develop, maintain, and refine sophisticated financial models in Excel to support investment decisions, negotiations, and portfolio management.
• Monitor and analyze loan budgets and milestones.
• Conduct detailed credit risk analyses, evaluating borrower reorganization viability, market conditions, and collateral quality to inform underwriting decisions and negotiations.
• Collaborate with the investment and risk management teams to provide data-driven insights and recommendations.
• Prepare and present reports to senior management on portfolio performance, risk exposure, and investment opportunities.
• Stay abreast of market trends and potential impacts on portfolio risk and investment opportunities.
• Enhance loan origination and monitoring processes.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field is required; advance degrees are highly regarded.
• 3-5 years’ experience in financial analysis, modeling, and risk assessment in a finance, banking, or private credit environment.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, including experience with building complex financial models.
• Familiarity with data visualization is valued.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with a keen eye for detail.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex financial information to non-finance stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Demonstrated track record of managing multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines.
• Valued traits include flexibility, humility, a growth mindset, and a good sense of humor.