Law Content Expert — Remote, Part-Time for AI Benchmarks

Mercor; Toronto; Remote; CAD 85,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor seeks legal experts to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will craft multiple-choice questions across core law domains, verify accuracy, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks for advancing AI capabilities.

You will be assigned two task types: Question Authoring and Question Verification, with remote, asynchronous work and a 10+ hour weekly commitment.

Qualifications

• Must craft high-quality, rigorous law questions and verify problem statements.
• Must write clear, self-contained questions with all necessary information.
• Must rate difficulty as Medium, Hard, or Expert.
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible distractors.
• Provide step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions in markdown format.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources.
• For verification tasks: flag clarity/precision issues and justify edits.

Responsibilities

• Author original law questions testing deep legal concepts.
• Verify accuracy, clarity, and rigor of pre-written questions.
• Rate difficulty levels for each question.
• Provide correct answer plus 9 plausible alternatives.
• Document changes with step-by-step reasoning (CoT).
• Supply references for each question.

Skills

Legal reasoning

Statutory interpretation

Jurisprudential theory

Academic writing

English proficiency

Education

JD/LLM/SJD

Doctoral candidacy

Master's degree considered

Job description

Mercor seeks legal experts to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will craft multiple-choice questions across core law domains, verify accuracy, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks for advancing AI capabilities.

You will be assigned two task types: Question Authoring and Question Verification, with remote, asynchronous work and a 10+ hour weekly commitment.