What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legal Team Internship - Summer 2025 position at Shift Markets?
Job Description
Job Description
Founded in 2009, we began in the traditional finance world, as a leader in the FX space. Sensing the seismic shifts taking place in the financial industry, and the disruptive power of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, we made it our mission to make these decentralized trends accessible to every business, from market leaders to small retailers.
We are offering an internship opportunity on our Legal team, which begins at the start of the intern’s Summer 2025 semester and concludes before the start of the intern’s following semester. As our Summer Legal Team intern, your areas of focus will be licensing and regulatory research. You’ll be regularly interacting with members of the Legal team and will be mentored by our Senior Counsel, Regulatory. Qualified candidates for this internship are current law school students or current students with a Bachelor’s in progress with a major in Law (or a related major such as Public Policy and History). Ideal candidates are able to take initiative, are flexible, familiar with legal concepts, and are exemplary researchers and writers.
Internships at Shift Markets are designed to provide students with hands-on training, similar to a university lab course, which enriches the educational experience. The goal is to add professional context to the student’s specialized academic program for the upcoming academic year. A major in Law (or a related major, such as Public Policy or History), is best suited for tying this internship to an academic program.
The intern will gain valuable experience by :
- Communicating daily with internal team members, under the supervision of our Associate Counsel.
- Receiving hands-on training from our Legal team on regulatory & compliance aspects of the digital asset space.
- Monitoring regulatory developments and preparing comparison documents, alongside our Legal team.
- Learning how to maintain systems to track and log regulatory changes, with guidance from Legal team members.
- Developing skills in synthesizing case law and broad regulatory expectations, with guidance from our Associate Counsel.
- Researching the financial services industry and pinpointing regulatory obligations, alongside members of our Legal team.
- Completing and processing paperwork required by law, with guidance from Legal team members.
The ideal intern is familiar with the following programs used by our company :
The ideal intern already has these required skills :
Qualified candidates meet the following expectations :
This is an unpaid internship with academic credit available. This internship requires 18 - 24 hours per week, and can be either remote or on-site in NYC. Internships with Shift are conducted without entitlement to a paid job at the conclusion of the internship.
