Bluebook Citation Specialist (Law Students & Recent JDs)

confidential; United States; Remote; USD 69,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

Zekai is seeking a Bluebook Citation Specialist (Law Students & Recent JDs) for a remote, contractor role. You will work on legal citation projects, review Bluebook rules, and create sample cite-checking tasks to train editors.

Ideal candidates are current or recent law students or JD graduates with hands-on Bluebook experience and law journal editing. You will apply Bluebook standards consistently, flag ambiguous cases, and deliver high-quality work on schedule.

Qualifications

• Current or recent law student (2L/3L) or recent JD graduate.
• Hands-on Bluebook experience and familiarity with pincites.
• Law journal or law review editing experience.
• Ability to explain why a citation is wrong and the reasoning.
• Careful and consistent across long sessions of detailed review work.

Responsibilities

• Review existing Bluebook and pincite grading rubrics, and flag rules that are unclear, incomplete, or would be applied inconsistently by different editors.
• Identify edge cases the rubrics don't currently cover and recommend how they should be handled.
• Create sample cite-checking tasks: source material paired with citations containing realistic errors, along with the correct answer and an explanation of the rule involved.
• Build tasks across a range of citation types and difficulty levels, from straightforward formatting errors to subtle pincite and source-support problems.
• Apply Bluebook rules consistently across all submissions.
• Flag ambiguous cases to project coordinators instead of resolving them silently.
• Deliver assigned work on schedule and at the required quality level.

Skills

Editing

Citation analysis

Attention to detail

Independent work

Education

Law student (2L/3L) or JD candidate

Tools

Bluebook

Job description

Role Title: Bluebook Citation Specialist (Law Students & Recent JDs)

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote

Opportunity Snapshot

Pay: $50-80/hour

You'll need: Current or recent law school enrollment, hands-on Bluebook experience, and law journal or law review editing experience

Your tasks: Review citation-checking rubrics and build sample cite-checking tasks

our partner is engaging law students and recent law graduates with law journal experience to support a legal citation project. If you've spent time cite-checking for a law review or journal, this is that skill applied to a new context. No prior AI experience is required - your Bluebook fluency and editorial judgment are what matter.

Scope of Work

• Review existing Bluebook and pincite grading rubrics, and flag rules that are unclear, incomplete, or would be applied inconsistently by different editors.
• Identify edge cases the rubrics don't currently cover and recommend how they should be handled.
• Create sample cite-checking tasks: source material paired with citations containing realistic errors, along with the correct answer and an explanation of the rule involved.
• Build tasks across a range of citation types and difficulty levels, from straightforward formatting errors to subtle pincite and source-support problems.
• Apply Bluebook rules consistently across all submissions.
• Flag ambiguous cases to project coordinators instead of resolving them silently.
• Deliver assigned work on schedule and at the required quality level.

Preferred Qualifications

• Current law student (2L, 3L) or recent JD graduate.
• Law review or law journal experience, ideally including a cite-checking or source-collection role.
• Strong working knowledge of The Bluebook, including pincites, short forms, signals, and parentheticals.
• Able to explain why a citation is wrong, not just that it is - the reasoning matters as much as the correction.
• Careful and consistent across long sessions of detailed review work.
• Comfortable working independently and meeting deadlines without close supervision.
• Experience as a journal editor, articles editor, or executive editor is a plus.

This is a 100% remote contract role, open to applicants worldwide in the countries the employer accepts.