What Principal Legal Jobs Ask For
Across 196 open Principal Legal postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are dfars, regulatory-compliance, risk-assessment.
Updated November 3, 2026
253 open Principal Legal postings. The percentages below are measured over the 196 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| dfars | 24% |
| regulatory-compliance | 18% |
| risk-assessment | 18% |
| program-management | 16% |
| ai | 15% |
| contract-negotiation | 12% |
| corrective-action | 12% |
| iso-13485 | 11% |
| acceptance-criteria | 11% |
| business-development | 10% |
| cybersecurity | 9% |
| technical-writing | 9% |
| stakeholder-management | 8% |
| cloud | 7% |
| sap | 6% |
| automation | 5% |
| legal-research | 5% |
| machine-learning | 5% |
| networking | 4% |
| oracle | 4% |
| contract-drafting | 4% |
| itar | 4% |
| process-improvement | 4% |
| sharepoint | 4% |
| agile | 3% |
| ecommerce | 3% |
| gdpr | 3% |
| nist | 3% |
| performance-management | 3% |
| saas | 3% |
| accessibility | 3% |
| analytics | 3% |
| ecs | 3% |
| erp | 3% |
| fedramp | 3% |
| generative-ai | 3% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
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Across all Legal levels
Most Legal postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- legal-research 5,845
- regulatory-compliance 3,769
- ai 3,455
- risk-assessment 2,715
- stakeholder-management 1,750
- business-development 1,568
- corrective-action 1,436
- gdpr 1,313
- cybersecurity 1,132
- cloud 1,001
- automation 980
- process-improvement 962