Legal Intern

JustBacked; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 34,000 - 48,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship

Job summary

Zenity, a leader in AI Agent Security, seeks a part-time legal internship in NYC or East Coast remote. You'll work inside the in-house legal team drafting and redlining commercial agreements, building a searchable contract repository, and testing AI tools for legal work.

You will report to the Director of Legal Counsel, gain exposure to negotiations, risk assessment, and cross‑functional collaboration with finance and product teams.

Qualifications

• You're currently pursuing a J.D. and have completed a bachelor's degree.
• Strong legal research skills and ability to discuss your approach.
• Excellent attention to detail to catch ambiguous terms.
• Clear, concise explanation of potential legal issues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Organized to manage shifting priorities.
• Comfortable collaborating across business teams.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and redline commercial agreements, including NDAs and vendor agreements.
• Build a searchable repository of existing agreements.
• Test AI tools for legal work and provide structured feedback.
• Research legal questions across privacy, employment, AI, and contract law.
• Support improvements to legal workflows and documentation.
• Take on projects as priorities shift across the in-house legal function.

Skills

Legal research

Written communication

Verbal communication

Attention to detail

Organization

Collaboration

Education

Pursuing J.D.

Bachelor's degree completed

Job description

About Us

Zenity is the leader in AI Agent Security and the first company to bring an agent‑centric security platform to market. As enterprises accelerate AI agent adoption, we are establishing the security framework for how AI agents are secured and governed at enterprise scale.

Description

About Us

Zenity is the leader in AI Agent Security and the first company to bring an agent‑centric security platform to market. As enterprises accelerate AI agent adoption, we are establishing the security framework for how AI agents are secured and governed at enterprise scale.

We deliver full‑lifecycle visibility, governance, detection, prevention, and response for AI agents from build time to runtime, across SaaS, home‑grown platforms, and end‑user devices. Backed by $180M+ in total funding, including a $125M Series C led by Norwest, with participation from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Microsoft's M12, Zenity is trusted by Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises worldwide.

join us in shaping how AI agents are secured at enterprise scale.

About The Role

Zenity's legal team is growing alongside the business, and there's real work here for a law student who wants more than a summer of admin. You'll draft and redline commercial agreements, help build a searchable contract repository, test AI tools that are starting to change how legal teams work, and research questions that actually inform decisions. This is a hands‑on internship inside the legal function of a fast‑growing AI cybersecurity company.

You'll work most closely with Zenity's Director of Legal Counsel, and get a real look at how an in‑house legal team manages risk, negotiates with counterparties, organizes its own knowledge, and decides which new tools are worth adopting.

NYC based preferred, but will accept East Coast remote.

This is a part‑time internship, roughly 20 hours a week, structured around your class schedule. It starts as soon as possible and runs for about three months, through the end of the year.

What You’ll Do

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and redline commercial agreements, including NDAs and vendor agreements, and flag key terms, risk areas, and open issues for the legal team.
• Help build a searchable repository of Zenity's existing agreements, and design a system for organizing them that actually gets used.
• Evaluate and test AI tools for legal work, and give structured feedback on where they help, where they fall short, and where they're not accurate enough to trust yet.
• Research legal questions across areas like privacy, employment, AI, and commercial and contract law, and turn what you find into clear, actionable takeaways.
• Support improvements to legal workflows, documentation, and processes as the team identifies them.
• Take on additional projects as priorities shift, with exposure to different parts of an in‑house legal function.

Requirements

Must-haves

• You're currently pursuing a J.D. and have completed a bachelor's degree.
• You have strong legal research skills and can talk through how you approached a research question, not just what you found.
• You have excellent attention to detail, the kind that catches an inconsistent defined term or an ambiguous clause on a first read.
• You can spot a potential legal issue and explain it clearly and concisely, without over-lawyering the explanation.
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills.
• You're organized enough to manage competing priorities and comfortable with a scope that shifts as business needs change.
• You're comfortable collaborating with people across a business, not just other lawyers.

Nice-to-haves

• Curiosity about how AI is changing legal work, and interest in testing new tools rather than defaulting to the familiar ones.
• Interest in how legal operates inside a technology company, though no prior in‑house, tech, cybersecurity, or commercial contracting experience is required.

What We Look For At Zenity

What Success Looks Like

• You've drafted and redlined real commercial agreements that the legal team actually used.
• Zenity's contract repository is more organized and easier to search than when you started.
• You've tested at least one AI tool for legal work and given the team a clear, honest read on where it helps and where it doesn't.
• Your research has directly informed a real decision the legal team made.

Why This Role

• You'll work on real commercial agreements, not simulated ones.
• You'll help build infrastructure the legal team will keep using after you leave.
• You'll see how legal actually operates inside a fast‑growing AI cybersecurity company, across contracting, research, operations, and emerging tools.

Interview Process

• Recruiter Screen (30 minutes) – an introductory conversation about the role, your background, and fit.
• Hiring Manager Interview (60 minutes) – a deeper conversation with our Director of Legal Counsel about the role and your experience.
• Final Interview with Finance Leadership (60 minutes) – a conversation with Zenity's finance leadership team.

Compensation

This internship is paid at $30 per hour.