Legal Expert

Mercor; India; Remote; INR 7,761,000 - 19,403,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor offers a remote, project-based eligible role for a Legal Expert. You will be engaged as an independent contractor with work that supports AI training and evaluation. Projects vary by scope and depth, with weekly payments and no access to confidential information.

Ideal candidates have professional legal experience, strong written communication, and comfort with ambiguous tasks, ready to flag unclear instructions for quality assurance.

Qualifications

• Professional experience in legal practice, compliance, regulatory work, or policy.
• Clear written communication required for explaining reasoning and conclusions.
• Comfort with ambiguous tasks and ability to flag unclear instructions.

Responsibilities

• Draft and analyze legal problems for AI model training from factual matters, governing law and references.
• Grade model-drafted legal work to assess accuracy of provisions, privilege calls, and citations.

Skills

Legal expertise

Regulatory compliance

Policy experience

Legal research

Job description

Legal Expert

Company: Mercor

Compensation: $60Commitment: Talent networkLocation: Remote

Referral Link: https://t.mercor.com/KIFA8

The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for legal judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against. This is a standing listing for legal professionals who want AI training and evaluation work, not a specific job opening. It stays open whether or not a matching project is running this week. New projects start on short notice, so instead of posting and pulling a listing each time, we keep one open per field and draw from it when one begins.

What the work looks like

We match legal professionals in the network to projects like: Writing a legal problem from a matter you worked on, with the facts, the forum, and the governing law, plus the reference answer a model's attempt gets graded against Grading model-drafted legal work: whether the provision does what it claims, whether the privilege call is right, whether the citation supports the proposition it is offered for Flagging where a model states the law correctly and would still lose, given the forum, the standard of review, or facts that do not carry the argument

Rates vary by role within this field. Listings across it have posted from $60 to $150 an hour, set per project by scope and depth.

What we’re looking for

• Professional experience in legal practice, compliance, regulatory work, or policy
• Clear written communication, since most of the work involves explaining your reasoning
• Comfort with ambiguous tasks, and willingness to flag unclear instructions

This pool spans the legal field, including:

• Legal practice; criminal justice and litigation
• Corporate law and M&A; intellectual property
• Compliance and risk management; regulatory affairs
• Policy
• Paralegals and legal assistants

This pool is broader than practising attorneys. Paralegals, compliance specialists, and policy professionals belong here too.

What to expect

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.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.