Applied Legal Benchmark Specialist
Mercor (client confidential) · Remote
- Pay
- $83–105/hr
- Commitment
- hourly
- Source
- mercor
About this role
**Role Overview** We are seeking legal experts to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous multiple-choice questions across core law domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities. You will be assigned one of two task types: - **Question Authoring** — Create original, challenging multiple-choice questions in your area of legal expertise, rate their difficulty, and submit them for review. - **Question Verification** — Review pre-written questions for accuracy, clarity, and rigor. Edit where needed, rate difficulty, and document any changes made. **Law Domains Covered** Intellectual Property, Privacy, and Technology, Regulatory and Government Affairs, Securities, Capital Markets, Financial Regulation & Compliance, Private Equity, M&A & Transaction Structuring, Antitrust, Merger Control & Competition, Healthcare, Life Sciences, & Pharmaceuticals, Environmental, Energy, & ESG/Climate. **Key Responsibilities** - Author original law questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall - Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined — all necessary information must be 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 that 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 (peer-reviewed journals, legal repositories) - For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made **Ideal Qualifications** - 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 - Experience with bar exam writing, legal academia, or judicial clerkships is a strong plus - Excellent written English and ability to express complex legal ideas clearly and concisely **More About the Opportunity** - Expected commitment: 10+ hours/week - Asynchronous, fully remote work
Skills & domains
- ai-training
- rlhf
- sme
- annotation
- Law
