What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legal Intern position at Anchor QEA?
Title: Legal Intern
Location: Houston, Texas
Job Type: Internship – Summer and Fall 2025
What’s the Opportunity?
Anchor QEA is looking for a Legal Intern. The Legal team helps Anchor QEA achieve strategic goals, manage legal risk, and uphold the legal and ethical integrity of the organization. Our focus is providing comprehensive legal advice to foster sound decision-making. The Legal Intern will report to the General Counsel and will have exposure to various corporate in-house legal matters, departments, and projects, across a variety of practice areas.
Responsibilities:
- Assist with drafting and negotiating a variety of legal documents, including agreements, filings, corporate consents, employment contracts, policy materials, and other essential documents, while collaborating with internal stakeholders and external parties.
- Conduct legal research on diverse company matters, including contract law, employment issues, compliance requirements, and industry-specific regulations.
- Collaborate across multiple departments (e.g., HR, Finance, Operations) to efficiently manage legal tasks and projects.
- Assist in maintaining and organizing a centralized database of legal documents within Ironclad, ensuring accurate record-keeping, version control, and easy access for relevant team members.
What Are We Looking For?
Ideal candidates will have the following:
- Candidate must be pursuing a J.D. at an ABA-accredited law school and completed at least one full year of law school
Previous experience in the following areas:
- Working with confidential documents and under confidentiality obligations.
- Contract formation, preparation, negotiation, review, and drafting skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Ability to protect company and client confidentiality.
- Experience or interest in contract law, the environmental engineering industry or previous experience in a corporate legal department.
- Passion for tackling issues of first impression and/or foundational legal issues.
- Talent for thinking outside of the box in researching legal issues.
- Able to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Interest and willingness to embrace new technologies to help further operationalize team processes.
What Can You Expect?
A collaborative and collegial work environment where we encourage everyone to bring their authentic self.
How to Apply?
Apply online through Anchor QEA’s Open Positions page at https://www.anchorqea.com/careers/careers-open-positions/.Veterans are encouraged to apply.
Who Are We?
Anchor QEA is an environmental science and engineering consulting firm that is focused on improving the environment and our communities by solving challenging problems. We employ more than 550 people in offices around the United States. Our vision is for a growing company that is our client's first choice for solving their most challenging problems and our employees’ first choice as a company where they want to work. We believe engaged staff leads to great client service and to a financially strong company—in that order. Our work environment fosters personal and professional growth for employees by providing autonomy, a clear vision, and the ability to master their skill set.
Additional Information
We work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion. As an equal opportunity employer, Anchor QEA is committed to a diverse, multi-cultural work environment. Anchor QEA does not discriminate in employment based on age, race, creed, gender, religion, marital status, veteran’s status, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation.
Employment is contingent upon satisfactory results of a comprehensive background check.
