Legal Document Reviewer - Expert

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor seeks experienced legal reviewers to design rubrics and perform quality control on large volumes of processed legal documents. This role focuses on review and verification, not drafting or advisory, across commercial contracts, HR records, IP agreements, regulatory filings, corporate records, and more.

You will create transparent rubrics, review documents against those standards, and categorize defects for adjudication.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ post-qualification legal experience.
• Experience with high-volume document review and QC.
• Ability to follow and improve written protocols.

Responsibilities

• Create rubrics to grade legal documents for layperson use.
• Review documents against a QC rubric ensuring identifying and sensitive elements are correctly handled.
• Flag defects and ambiguous cases for adjudication.

Skills

Legal reviewer

Quality control

Document review

Education

Juris Doctor / equivalent

Job description

About the role

We're hiring experienced legal reviewers to create rubrics and run quality control on large volumes of processed legal documents. This is a review and verification role — not drafting, not advisory.

You'll work across the full range of commercial legal document types: commercial contracts, employment and HR records, IP and technology agreements, regulatory filings, corporate records, insurance policies, financing and debt instruments, litigation files, real estate documents, and tax filings. Breadth matters far more than great depth in any single practice area.

What you'll do

• Create rubrics to grade legal documents against that can be understood and applied by a layman

• Review processed legal documents against a written QC rubric, checking that every identifying and sensitive element has been correctly handled

• Flag and categorise defects, and flag ambiguous cases for adjudication

What we're looking for

• US-based, qualified lawyer with 3+ years’ post-qualification experience, ideally in-house or as a generalist commercial counsel

• Comfort moving across many document types

• Experience in managed document review, e-discovery, contract management, or data privacy is a strong advantage

• Demonstrable precision and consistency on high-volume review work

• Able to follow a written protocol closely, and to improve it