Legal Expert (J.D./LL.B.)
New
Listed pay: $100to 150 / hr
What the posting lists, in US dollars an hour.
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What happens after you click- Location
- Remote, no country stated
- Terms
- Contract, part-time
- Posted
- · Yesterday
What the work is
The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for legal judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against.
This is a standing listing for lawyers who want AI training and evaluation work, not a specific job opening. It stays open whether or not a matching project is running this week.
New projects start on short notice, so instead of posting and pulling a listing each time, we keep one open per field and draw from it when one begins.
What the work looks like
We match lawyers in the network to projects like:
Drafting a motion or a brief from a fact pattern, plus the reference answer a model's attempt gets graded against
Grading model-drafted contract and discovery work: whether the provision does what it claims, whether the privilege call is right, whether the citation supports the proposition it is offered for
Flagging where a model states the law correctly and would still lose, given the forum, the standard of review, or facts that do not carry the argument
Projects in this field have posted at $100 to $150 an hour, set per project by scope and depth.
What we're looking for
A J.D., LL.B., or LL.M. and a current license to practice
Professional experience in litigation, transactional work, or regulatory practice
Clear written communication, since most of the work involves explaining your reasoning
Comfort with ambiguous tasks, and willingness to flag unclear instructions
Where people in this pool have worked
The most common backgrounds, though the pool is broader than this:
Am Law firms and litigation or transactional boutiques
Federal and state judicial clerkships
In-house counsel and compliance at large companies
Federal and state enforcement, regulatory, and prosecutorial offices
The firm name matters less than whether you did the drafting and the analysis yourself, recently enough to explain why you came out where you did.
How it works
Apply here with your resume and confirm where you work from, then take a short AI interview, about 20 minutes total.
We verify your license and background and add you to the legal pool.
When a project needs your area of practice, we invite matching people from the pool to that specific listing. It names the rate, the hours, and the client, and any hiring decision is made there.
What to expect
This listing does not accept or reject candidates, so you will not get a decision on it. We reach out when a project matches your background. Depending on what our clients are running, that can be within a week or several months.
Finishing the domain expert interview and joining every network you qualify for both improve your odds of being matched. You only need to sign up once to be eligible across all of them.
From the Mercor posting.
Applying on Mercor
What happens after you click
- The link opens this role on Mercor. Sign up and apply from there.
- Upload a resume, complete the assessments the role asks for and verify your work authorisation.
- An AI interview of about 20 minutes. Mercor says it usually takes 2 to 4 weeks to hear back.
- If Mercor hires you, you are paid weekly, on the Wednesday after each work week, via Stripe. Mercor says first payouts are held for 7 days.
- The work is paid by the hour, at the $100–150 this posting lists.
- Remote. The posting names no country, so we have not assumed one applies.
If you're hired through a link here and start paid work, Mercor pays this site a referral fee. Your pay is unaffected.
Red Pen Jobs is independent. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for Mercor in any way, and we do not recruit on its behalf.