Corporate Counsel – Contractor

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $100 - $250 / hour

⏱ Part Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Arceus

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11 - 50 employees

⚖️ Legal

🤝 B2B

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Legal • B2B • Artificial Intelligence

Arceus is an on-demand law firm that combines licensed attorneys, AI agents, and company context to deliver fast, fixed-price commercial legal work and general counsel services. It focuses on rapid contract review, drafting, negotiation, and ongoing legal memory (CounselOS) integrated into workflows like Slack and email, with guarantees such as an 8-hour turnaround and flat-fee pricing instead of billable hours. Arceus targets fast-moving tech and enterprise customers (including AI and B2B SaaS companies), offering legal infrastructure for sales, finance & operations, and founders, and emphasizes predictable pricing, availability, and sped-up enterprise contracting.

📋 Description

• Serve as fractional corporate counsel to startups and growth-stage technology companies • Handle the full corporate lifecycle from formation through financings • Advise founders, finance teams, and in-house legal functions • Manage incorporations, LLC-to-C-corp conversions, Delaware reincorporations and flips, subsidiaries, and foreign qualifications • Handle founder stock purchases, vesting, 83(b) elections, and IP assignments • Manage board and stockholder consents, minutes, bylaws and charter amendments, and annual Delaware compliance • Manage equity incentive plans, option and RSU grants, 409A coordination, cap table hygiene, Rule 701, and blue-sky compliance • Handle company-side SAFEs, convertible notes, and priced seed and Series A financings • Manage ROFR and co-sale processes, tender offers, and stock transfer requests • Prepare data rooms, respond to diligence requests, and support smaller M&A and acqui-hires • Coordinate with employment and commercial counsel on equity grants and corporate approvals • Convert recurring work into templates, checklists, quality bars, and AI-assisted workflows • Collaborate with product and engineering to improve legal tools • Respond to client messages the same business day during stated working hours

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. and active bar membership in good standing • 5+ years of corporate practice, with significant emerging-companies and venture financing experience • Training at a law firm with an established emerging-companies or venture practice; in-house or sole-counsel experience a strong plus • Hands-on, company-side experience running SAFE, convertible note, and priced equity financings • Strong command of Delaware corporate law and startup equity mechanics • Familiarity with cap table platforms such as Carta or Qapita and e-signature closing workflows • Experience with, or real excitement about, AI-assisted legal workflows • Strong grounding in professional responsibility and legal ethics • Excellent written and verbal communication, especially with founders and finance teams • Must be an active attorney in good standing • Must be licensed to practice in at least one U.S. state or jurisdiction

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to expand hours as the corporate practice grows • At least 10 hours per week of availability for client matters, though volume varies with demand • Same-business-day responses during stated working hours, with extra flexibility around financing closings

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