Legal Document Reviewer - Expert

Obsidian; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Obsidian is seeking experienced legal reviewers to create 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, and more.

You will develop clear rubrics, verify documents against the QC standards, and flag defects or ambiguous cases for adjudication.

Qualifications

• US-based, qualified lawyer with 3+ years’ post-qualification experience.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Legal review

Quality control

Attention to detail

Education

Qualified lawyer (US bar)

Tools

Document review tools

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