Law Assessment Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $105/hr
mercor
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Mercor
connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include
Benchmark
,
General Catalyst
,
Peter Thiel
,
Adam D'Angelo
,
Larry Summers
, and
Jack Dorsey
.
Position:
Applied Legal Benchmark Specialist
Type:
Contract
Compensation:
$83–$105/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment:
10+ hours/week
Role responsibilities
- Author original law questions to test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall.
- Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined with all necessary information in the problem statement.
- Rate each question's difficulty: Medium (intro undergraduate), Hard (advanced undergraduate), or Expert (post-graduate and above).
- Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives to challenge expert-level solvers.
- Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear, concise reasoning in
markdown
format.
- Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources like peer-reviewed journals and legal repositories.
- For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- JD
,
LLM
,
SJD
, or doctoral candidate in Law or a closely related field.
- Master's degree
considered for candidates with exceptional depth in a specific subdomain.
- Strong command of legal reasoning, statutory interpretation, and jurisprudential theory.
- Excellent written English and ability to express complex legal ideas clearly and concisely.
Preferred
- Experience with bar exam writing, legal academia, or judicial clerkships is a strong plus.
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