Legal jobs and conferences

Counsel, compliance, contracts, privacy and legal operations. Legal has about 19,122 verified open jobs on NextChapter right now, with a typical posted salary of $135,000 a year. About 31% of openings are entry or early-career level. 168 conferences are tagged to it, 117 with dates announced.

Legal market snapshot

Every figure names its source and period. Estimates are labeled as estimates; AI exposure is what AI could do in principle, not a measured job loss.

Verified open jobs
about 19,122

Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.

Typical posted salary
$135,000 a year (middle half $95,000 to $186,000)

Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 1,676 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

Entry or early-career level
31% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data: level read from the full posting, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

Ask for AI skills
2% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data: AI-skill tagger on the posting text, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

Remote
4% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

Median annual wage, Legal occupations
$102,500

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, national, all industries, May 2025.

Observed AI exposure, Legal occupations
22% of tasks show work-related Claude usage (average across 7 occupations)

Source: Anthropic Economic Index, labor market impacts, March 2026: coverage of tasks, not job loss, estimate.

AI task exposure, closest group (Legal)
46.5 out of 100: what AI could do in principle, not a measured job loss

Source: NextChapter White Collar Employment Report, September 2026; Eloundou et al. (2024) task-exposure score, estimate.

Employment change, Legal
−0.4% from 2022 to 2026

Source: NextChapter White Collar Employment Report, September 2026, Census CPS (NextChapter calculation), January to August, 2022 and 2026.

Unemployed 27+ weeks, last job in Legal
39.7% of unemployed people

Source: NextChapter White Collar Employment Report, September 2026, Census CPS (NextChapter calculation), January to August 2026, 56 respondents.

Conferences in the catalog for Legal
168, 117 with dates announced

Source: NextChapter conference catalog, checked against each event’s own site.

Next conference
ARMA InfoCon, Oct 25, 2026

Source: NextChapter conference catalog.

Median published ticket price
$780

Source: NextChapter conference catalog, lowest published price, 43 conferences with a price.

Open calls for speakers
19 conferences

Source: NextChapter conference catalog.

Skills most often named in openings

  1. 1. litigation22%
  2. 2. regulatory compliance6%
  3. 3. risk management4%
  4. 4. excel3%
  5. 5. audit3%
  6. 6. procurement3%
  7. 7. logistics2%
  8. 8. project management2%

States with the most openings

  1. 1. CA13%
  2. 2. NY11%
  3. 3. FL8%
  4. 4. TX6%
  5. 5. IL6%

Open Legal jobs

Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.

Showing the newest 15 of about 19,122 verified open jobs here. Search all jobs

Industries hiring for this function

Employers hiring

Ranked: the employers hiring the most legal jobs

Legal conferences

Conferences tagged for this function, plus events with no function tag whose attendee roles point here.

Showing 60 of 168 conferences, 117 with dates announced.

Associations and organizers

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