Managing Partner - Emerging Companies

About the role

We're hiring a veteran emerging companies attorney to lead and scale our Emerging Companies practice, running financings and corporate work for our growing roster of startup clients-from pre-seed through later-stage rounds-while setting consistent guidance and process across the practice and helping us reinvent how that work gets done. This is a hybrid practitioner-builder leadership role. You'll run deals start to finish and hire/manage a small team emerging companies lawyers, but you won't be doing it the way you did at your last firm. Imagine having a personal forward-deployed engineer building tools alongside you, to help you set and enforce the standard for how our AI-native workflows reshape every step of a financing, from term sheet through closing binders-and how the practice delivers consistent, repeatable guidance across industries, stages, and the ancillary issues emerging companies face (employment, IP, and related matters). You'll also help define how the next generation of associates gets trained, mentored, and scaled in a world where routine work is no longer the bottleneck.

Responsibilities

• Lead venture financings (priced rounds, SAFEs, convertible notes), formations, equity issuances, secondaries, and related emerging companies matters (including key employment, IP, and commercial issues) for both companies and investors from start to finish.
• Negotiate directly with investor counsel-and represent funds on the other side of the table as needed-drawing on your understanding of market terms across stages to shape consistent, practical guidance across our practice.
• Partner with our engineering team to design, test, and deploy tools that make every part of the deal process meaningfully faster and enable consistent practice-wide guidance.
• Define and continuously improve the playbook, training systems, and quality standards for how junior attorneys are trained, mentored, and leveled up-so emerging companies work is delivered consistently and efficiently in an AI-native practice.
• Help shape firm and practice strategy, pricing, and service design, including defining consistent guidance and scalable processes across the Emerging Companies practice, as an early senior hire.

Requirements

• 7+ years of emerging companies / venture capital experience at a top firm, with substantial company-side and investor-side work. Backgrounds at Cooley, Orrick, Fenwick, Wilson Sonsini, Gunderson, Goodwin, Latham, or similar are preferred.
• Deep experience representing both emerging companies and investors and funds across stages. You understand both sides of the table and what "market" actually means at each stage.
• Excellent judgment and a clear, direct communication style. Founders, GCs, and your teams trust you because you tell them what matters, skip what doesn't, and can translate that judgment into repeatable guidance, process, and training.
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About General Legal General Legal is an AI-native law firm built to deliver high-quality corporate legal work faster and more predictably than traditional firms. We combine top-of-market, U.S.-barred attorneys with AI-native workflows to handle drafting, review, and negotiation end to end-without billable hours, bloated process, or junior handoffs. We operate like a startup because we are one. That means modern tooling, outcome-based pricing, remote-friendly work, meaningful ownership for the people doing the work, and a focus on building repeatable processes that scale. By using AI to make the routine parts of legal work effortless, we give our attorneys the space to focus on judgment, negotiation, consistently advising clients on what actually matters, and mentoring the next generation of lawyers. We're starting with commercial and emerging companies work for growing companies and building a modern law firm where great lawyers can do their best work-and help reshape how legal services are delivered.

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