Legal Content Specialist - Jd

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Híbrido; GBP 87.000 - 109.000; A tiempo parcial

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Remote work

Descripción de la vacante

Mercor is seeking an Applied Legal Benchmark Specialist for a remote contract role, offering $83–$105 per hour and a commitment of 10+ hours per week. The candidate will craft test questions to evaluate deep legal understanding, with a focus on clarity, precision, and rigor.

Required JD/LLM/SJD or doctoral candidate, plus strong legal reasoning and excellent written English. Master’s degree is considered for exceptional depth. Prior bar exam writing or academia experience is a strong plus.

Formación

• Strong command of legal reasoning and statutory interpretation.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex legal ideas clearly and concisely.

Responsabilidades

• Author original law questions to test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined with all necessary information in the problem statement.
• Rate each question's difficulty: Medium, Hard, or Expert.
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear reasoning in markdown.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources.

Conocimientos

Legal reasoning

Statutory interpretation

Jurisprudential theory

Written English

Educación

JD/LLM/SJD or doctoral candidate

Master's degree considered

Descripción del empleo

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Applied Legal Benchmark Specialist
Type: Contract
Compensation: $83–$105/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 10+ hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Author original law questions to test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined with all necessary information 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 to 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 like peer-reviewed journals and legal repositories.
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 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.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex legal ideas clearly and concisely.

Preferred

• Experience with bar exam writing, legal academia, or judicial clerkships is a strong plus.

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
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