Legal Product Fellow
About the role
Be part of an AI-native startup building an AI platform for estate settlement. The Legal Product Fellow will work directly with the founding team to translate complex legal and administrative systems into product functionality, helping to build the product rather than a traditional legal internship.
Responsibilities
- Research court rules, statutes, forms, and agency requirements and map them into product logic
- Determine the minimum information needed from a family and what Elayne can obtain via AI agents, document parsing, APIs, public records, and other data sources
- Figure out what can be inferred or cross-checked automatically and what needs family verification
- Identify edge cases where the product should ask another question, find another source, or bring in a human
- Work directly with product and engineering as research becomes software
Qualifications
- 2L or 3L, exceptional 1Ls are also encouraged to apply
- Love researching difficult questions and getting to the actual answer
- Unusually precise and detail-oriented
- Enjoy turning messy information into clear systems
- Interested in AI, startups, legal tech, fintech, or product
- Comfortable distinguishing between what the law clearly establishes and what still needs verification
- No prior trusts and estates experience required
- Backgrounds in consulting, finance, engineering, product, research, law review, or other analytical work are a plus
Skills
About Elayne
AI copilot for growing, organizing, and transferring family estates
Elayne helps families organize their assets, estate documents, and key contacts in one place, then guides them through life transitions as circumstances and priorities evolve. Like getting married, moving, having a baby, or losing a parent. Unlike traditional wealth management tools or online estate platforms that produce static legal documents, Elayne is dynamic, intelligent, and built not just to delight, but to comfort and guide you when it matters most. I started Elayne after my mom passed away and I had to settle her estate, accounts, and affairs - essentially, I suddenly had to untangle all the details of her life. It was shocking how fragmented and opaque the process was and how I spent hundreds of hours chasing documents, coordinating accounts, filling legal gaps, and navigating unfamiliar systems, all while grieving and working full time. It shouldn’t be that way. In the future, you could hire an attorney, download DIY legal forms, fax and mail physical documents, sync 10 different fintech apps, use a financial planner, spend thousands in fees, and hope it all holds together. Or, you could just use Elayne.
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