What Junior Legal Jobs Ask For

Across 543 open Junior Legal postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are legal-research, regulatory-compliance, ai.

Updated November 4, 2026

1,474 open Junior Legal postings. The percentages below are measured over the 543 of them that list skills at all.

Skill	Mentioned in
legal-research	48%
regulatory-compliance	11%
ai	10%
risk-assessment	6%
gdpr	4%
statistics	4%
contract-drafting	3%
cybersecurity	3%
business-development	3%
candidate-experience	3%
fintech	3%
lidar	3%
contract-negotiation	3%
corrective-action	3%
assembly	3%
contract-lifecycle-management	3%
llm	3%
process-improvement	2%
sharepoint	2%
stakeholder-management	2%
uscis	2%
version-control	2%
automation	2%
cloud	2%
git	2%
javascript	2%
lgpd	2%
microsoft-access	2%
powerbi	2%
ecommerce	1%
agile	1%
analytics	1%
crm	1%
employee-relations	1%
erp	1%
generative-ai	1%
saas	1%
sap	1%
talent-management	1%
iso-27001	1%

"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.

Across all Legal levels

Most Legal postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.