Legal Counsel – Fractional

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🌐 United States, United Kingdom – Remote

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💵 $200 - $300 / hour

⏱ Part Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Rethink Priorities

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Rethink Priorities is a think-and-do tank that conducts rigorous, data-driven research and implements projects to improve global well-being now and in the future. It evaluates and tests high-leverage interventions across areas such as animal welfare, global health and development, climate, and neglected issues, and offers consulting and special-project services to donors, nonprofits, policymakers, and researchers. The organization operates as nonprofit entities in the US and UK and focuses on empirical analysis, surveys, and actionable recommendations to maximize philanthropic and policy impact.

📋 Description

• Advise RP, a US 501(c)(3) research and implementation nonprofit, on charitable activity boundaries and Model A fiscal sponsorship • Draft and review contractor, service, and other agreements • Maintain compliance with multi-jurisdiction employment law and support visa sponsorship and immigration compliance • Negotiate grant agreements with funders and recipients and fiscal sponsorship agreements covering IP transfer and spin-off provisions • Assess FARA exposure, GDPR obligations across UK and EU work, and emerging AI regulations affecting research and operations • Support entity formation, exemption applications, and asset transfers for projects spinning off as independent nonprofits • Handle ad hoc structural questions and triage matters to specialist outside counsel when appropriate • Report to Chief Operations Officer Carolyn Footitt

🎯 Requirements

• Generally at least 5 years of legal practice experience • Authorized to practice law where you intend to work from • Most roles require a US-barred attorney • Legal judgment and comfort with ambiguity • Genuine interest in understanding organizations whose risk tolerance and operating speed may differ from a typical non-profit or corporate client • Ability to keep pace with rapid turnaround requirements • Ability to provide risk-calibrated legal recommendations • Experience or ability to address novel legal issues, including fiscal sponsorship structures, frontier AI lab contract negotiation, export controls, FARA exposure, compute contract remedies, and 501(c)(3)/501(c)(4) activity boundaries

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work hours and location • Comprehensive benefits (varies by country and number of hours worked; RP aims for equity and quality across all staff) • Generous paid time off, including vacation and mandated mid- and end-year organization-wide breaks • Technology stipend for work and office equipment • AI tools budget of $40 USD equivalent monthly • Learning opportunities, including workshops/training sessions and work time dedicated to professional and personal development • Virtual co-working spaces, including a private Rethink Priorities Focusmate group • RP Peer Support Program for New Employees • Other benefits at the discretion of RP Leadership • Caring team that values respectful work relations and a healthy work-life balance • Potential mailed box of Oreos upon request