Legal Intern

Overview: Job Summary: Avalara, Inc.
is seeking multiple legal interns to support the ongoing operations of its legal team.
This internship is a paid position.
The ideal candidate is intellectually curious, a self-starter, and committed to working for Avalara for 12+ months, for a minimum of 10-15 hours per week during the school year and full time in the summer.
The position does not require tax law knowledge.
Interns work under Avalara’s hybrid working arrangement, working both in-person and remotely.
Interns are paid $30 an hour.
Responsibilities: Job Duties: With support from fellow legal interns and guidance from attorneys on the team, the intern performs a variety of functions that are essential to the daily work of the legal department, such as: Managing the legal team’s work intake through a ticketing system, contract lifecycle management tool, and contract repository.
Keeping attorneys apprised of high priority requests from internal business partners.
Managing administrative tasks, such as organizing, signing, and saving agreements.
Editing, reviewing, and drafting a variety of contractual arrangements, such as non-disclosure agreements, requested variances to Avalara service terms and conditions, partner agreements, vendor service agreements and forms, marketing agreements, etc.
Processing routine legal support requests.
Responding to requests from internal business clients for information or general support.
Working on special projects and conducting legal research on topics to address issues identified by the legal team.
Educating the legal team on a variety of topics through presentations or other communications.
Qualifications: Qualifications: Be located in Durham, North Carolina.
Be graduating law school in 2025 or later (e.
g.
currently a rising 2L student or future Juris Doctor candidate).
Be able to work effectively on-site in our Durham office and at your remote office.
Be an energetic, reliable self-starter who is eager to learn and grow.
Have excellent time management skills and the ability to respond quickly to requests.
Be able to separate work and school commitments.
Have demonstrated strong contract drafting and editing skills.
Be able to work at least 10-15 hours per week during the school year and around 40 hours per week during the summer.
Familiarity with Jira and Ironclad is a plus.
Base pay is $30 (hourly).
Avalara’s benefits for eligible employees includes company benefits such as medical, dental, and vision coverage, life, AD&D, and disability insurance, paid days off annually (pro-rated based on % FTE), up to 12 partial paid holidays, an employee assistance program, and subsidized transportation options for commuters.
About Avalara: About Avalara: We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world.
Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping.
Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation.
The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day.
Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds.
That’s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone.
That’s why we’re growing fast.
Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.
S.
and around the world, in Brazil, Canada, India, U.
K, Belgium and across Europe.
Equal Opportunities: Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.