Legal Expert

Mercor

Work style

remote

Job type

contract

Experience

mid

Mercor partners with leading AI teams to improve the quality, usefulness, and reliability of general-purpose conversational AI systems. These systems are used across a wide range of everyday and professional scenarios, and their effectiveness depends on how clearly, accurately, and helpfully they respond to real user questions.

In legal contexts, precision, clarity, and correct reasoning are critical. This project focuses on evaluating and improving conversational AI behavior when responding to legal questions, explanations, and analyses. Your expertise helps ensure model responses reflect accurate legal understanding, appropriate reasoning, and responsible communication aligned with real-world legal practice.

What You’ll Do

Write and refine prompts to guide model behavior in legal use cases

Evaluate LLM-generated responses to legal queries for accuracy, reasoning, clarity, and completeness

Conduct fact-checking using trusted public sources and authoritative references

Annotate model responses by identifying strengths, areas of improvement, and factual or conceptual inaccuracies

Assess tone, completeness, and appropriateness of responses for real-world legal scenarios

Ensure model responses align with expected conversational behavior and system guidelines

Apply consistent evaluation standards by following clear taxonomies, benchmarks, and detailed evaluation guidelines

What Success Looks Like

You uncover legal inaccuracies, misleading reasoning, or unclear explanations in model outputs

Your evaluations improve the reliability and clarity of legal AI responses

You deliver structured, reproducible feedback that meaningfully improves model performance

Mercor customers trust their AI systems in legal contexts because you’ve rigorously evaluated them

You have a minimum of 5 years of real-world professional experience in Law, supported by an associated expert degree (e.g., JD, LLB, LLM, or equivalent)

You have experience in one or more of the following sub-domains:

Corporate, Business & Commercial Law

Employment, Labor & Human Rights

Public, Criminal & International Governance

Private Law

You have significant experience using large language models (LLMs) and understand how and why people use them

You have excellent writing skills and can clearly explain complex legal concepts

You are comfortable evaluating complex arguments and identifying subtle reasoning or detail-level issues that others may overlook.

Why Join Mercor

Mercor offers legal professionals the opportunity to apply their expertise beyond traditional practice, shaping how AI systems reason about and communicate legal information. This flexible, remote role allows you to contribute directly to the future of legal AI while working on intellectually rigorous, high-impact projects.

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Contract and Payment Terms

You will be engaged as an independent contractor.

This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.

Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.

Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.

Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.

Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

This role is no longer accepting applications.