Legal Research Analyst

🕒 September 26

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🔬 Research Analyst

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ELVTR

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📚 Education

Consulting • Marketing • Education

ELVTR is an online education platform that revolutionizes learning by connecting students with industry-leading experts through live virtual classrooms. Focused on providing practical knowledge, ELVTR offers a wide range of courses, including AI product design, UX/UI for gaming, creative advertising, and more, with content driven 100% by instructors. This approach allows ELVTR to provide personalized feedback and hands-on assignments, enabling students to develop marketable skills and build impressive portfolios. With a mission to disrupt traditional education, ELVTR emphasizes networking, community discussions, and individual growth opportunities.

📋 Description

• Research legal questions across multiple jurisdictions, including contractor and partner engagement models, entity structuring, employment and commercial law • Draft and maintain contract templates, including consulting agreements, teaching assistant agreements, statements of work, amendments, and termination agreements, with jurisdiction-specific variants • Redline counterparty contracts and flag material terms • Build and own the legal register covering active matters, deadlines, obligations, renewals, and filings • Scope and brief external counsel, assemble briefing materials, track cost and turnaround, and pressure-test advice • Support entity formation, restructuring, and market-entry diligence • Maintain approved communication templates and FAQs for teams working with instructors • Build systems enabling a small legal function to support a fast-growing company

🎯 Requirements

• A law degree and 2–4 years of practical legal experience — private practice, in-house, or legal services • Excellent written English • Proven legal research skill, including in legal systems that aren't your own • Judgment to know when a question needs local counsel and how to frame it for them • Contract drafting and redlining experience • Thoughtful, verified use of AI research tools • Comfort with ambiguity and initiative to turn a half-formed business question into a precise legal one • Interest in how the business actually works • Experience with cross-border contractor or freelancer engagement models (nice to have) • Employment or labour law background (nice to have) • Admission to the bar in your home jurisdiction (nice to have) • Data protection experience (GDPR, POPIA) (nice to have) • Experience in a distributed, remote-first company (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Opportunities for career advancement as ELVTR continues to grow globally • Free access to ELVTR courses • Ongoing professional development opportunities • Career growth within one of the world's fastest-growing online education companies • Work from wherever you're most productive • Flexible and supportive work environment • Collaborative international team • Gym membership reimbursement • Mental health support • Generous paid vacation allowance

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