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Expert: Legal (Contract, Remote)

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Remote$50/hr - $150/hrcontractPosted 3d ago

About the role

Independent contractor, fully remote, asynchronous role building and solving legal evaluation tasks to train frontier models. Design realistic legal tasks, write requests, solve tasks end-to-end, and establish precise scoring criteria.

Responsibilities

  • Build realistic evidence files from provided scenarios (agreements, amendments, pleadings, discovery requests, closing checklists, disclosure schedules, contract redlines, office actions, and claim charts)
  • Write task requests that specify deliverables and handling of uncertainty
  • Solve each task end to end and document a reference solution with reasoning
  • Write precise scoring criteria ensuring inter-grader agreement, including acceptable alternative answers and authorization limits
  • Check own and peers’ tasks for legal accuracy and ambiguity
  • Incorporate reviewer feedback within agreed turnaround times and flag guideline gaps
  • Explain to the research team how work in your area is actually done (steps, documents, roles, workflow)
  • Review scenarios and documents created by the team and flag unrealistic aspects

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in at least one of the hiring areas (as attorney, paralegal, legal assistant, contracts manager or specialist, or patent/trademark agent)
  • Working knowledge of rules, procedures, and documentation standards in your area (e.g., court rules, discovery practice, closing mechanics, deal documentation, CLM workflows, USPTO rules)
  • Careful reading and habit of showing the evidence behind conclusions
  • Clear, precise writing in professional English
  • Ability to work independently and asynchronously against deadlines

Skills

Required:Legal drafting and reviewEvidence and reasoning to support conclusionsIndependent and asynchronous work

Benefits

  • Trial task paid
  • Flexible, remote engagement
  • Pay range $50 to $150 per hour; some projects paid per task with bonuses; rolling start
Last updated Oct 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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