Collecting interest
Senior Attorney
Handles substantive legal work across contracts, corporate and nonprofit governance, intellectual property, employment, privacy, and research agreements, and mentors junior legal staff. Active bar admission and several years of relevant practice.
Paid or volunteer, your choice. Every position can be filled as paid work or offered as volunteer service. If you would like to help the cause, you are welcome to volunteer your time in any capacity.
- Compensation
- Paid or volunteer
- Participant-facing
- No
- Credential required
- Yes
- Training before activation
- No
- Conflict review
- Disclosure reviewed before any appointment
- Reviewed by
- Regulatory & QA
- Estimated future need
- As legal and compliance needs grow
Important boundaries
- Serves Herbal Trials itself: supports the organization and does not provide legal advice to applicants, participants, or the public.
What your application includes
- Profile & contact
- Conflict-of-interest disclosure
- Document uploads
What to have ready
A CV or résumé is part of every profile. For this role, also have:
- Bar admission & good standing
- Representative matter or writing sample (redacted)
What we’ll ask you
Leadership and operations set whether the science stays honest under real-world pressure. Everyone also answers a few shared questions on research integrity and why this work. You answer these in your private portal after verifying your email — a reviewer reads them, and they’re never scored by a machine.
- How do you protect mission and scientific integrity when fundraising, growth, or a major donor's wishes pull against them?
- Describe how you'd build or run this function in a young nonprofit that refuses to overstate what it is.
- Tell us about a time you handled a conflict of interest, a compensation question, or a governance issue with real fiduciary care.
- Why this organization and this mission, specifically? (optional)
Never upload Social Security numbers, tax or bank details, or patient records. Herbal Trials does not sell supplements, make efficacy claims, or provide medical advice, and does not endorse any substance. Candidate substances remain unverified until studied.