Legal Citation Specialist (Law Students)

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

Job summary

Zekai is seeking a Legal Citation Specialist (Law Students) for a 100% remote contract role. You will review Bluebook citation rules, build sample cite-checking tasks, and ensure consistency and quality across submissions.

The work leverages your Bluebook fluency and editorial judgment developed in law journals or reviews. Ideal candidates are current law students (2L/3L) or recent JD graduates with hands-on cite-checking experience and the ability to explain why a citation is wrong.

Qualifications

• Current or recent law student enrolled in a JD program.
• Hands-on Bluebook experience.
• Law journal or law review editing experience.

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

Bluebook proficiency

Editing law journals

Education

Current law student / JD graduate

Job description

Role Title: Legal Citation Specialist (Law Students)

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

Job Description

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.

How the selection process works

• Apply and complete the screening questions
• Complete the AI interview— this is how we showcase your skills to the client
• Profile review by the hiring team
• Onboarding — our Talent Ops team will get you set up

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