What Junior Legal Jobs Ask For
Across 174 open Junior Legal postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are legal-research, ai, regulatory-compliance.
Updated October 28, 2026
229 open Junior Legal postings. The percentages below are measured over the 174 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| legal-research | 48% |
| ai | 18% |
| regulatory-compliance | 16% |
| risk-assessment | 9% |
| contract-negotiation | 8% |
| gdpr | 5% |
| cybersecurity | 5% |
| business-development | 4% |
| contract-lifecycle-management | 4% |
| process-improvement | 4% |
| automation | 3% |
| contract-drafting | 3% |
| crm | 3% |
| fintech | 3% |
| powerbi | 3% |
| sql | 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 2,367
- ai 1,831
- regulatory-compliance 1,530
- risk-assessment 1,085
- business-development 650
- gdpr 649
- stakeholder-management 646
- corrective-action 523
- cybersecurity 506
- automation 505
- cloud 446
- saas 426