Legal Expert (Civil Rights Law)

Micro1; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Micro1 is seeking a Legal Expert (Civil Rights Law) contractor to contribute to AI projects by annotating and interpreting civil rights legal matters. You will design, review data annotation tasks, draft explanations, and provide QA to ensure accuracy, clarity, and legal relevance.

You will collaborate remotely with project managers and other legal experts to refine workflows and improve project documentation, applying rigorous legal reasoning and precise writing to real-world scenarios.

Qualifications

• JD with active US bar admission.
• Significant civil rights litigation experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Experience collaborating on remote, multidisciplinary projects.
• Familiarity with legal data annotation or digital knowledge tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, create, and review civil rights data annotation tasks.
• Assess accuracy and relevance of datasets and guidelines.
• Draft clear explanations and rationales for legal concepts and decision-making processes.
• Provide detailed feedback on annotation deliverables.
• Collaborate with project managers and platform specialists to refine workflows.
• Contribute to ongoing project documentation and best practices.

Skills

Civil rights law expertise

Strong written and verbalcommunication

Detail-oriented

Remote collaboration

Familiarity with legal data annotation

Education

Juris Doctor (JD) degree and active US bar admission

Job description

Role Title: Legal Expert (Civil Rights Law) Role Type: Contractor Location: Remote

micro1 is engaging Legal Expert (Civil Rights Law) professionals to contribute to a customer's project focused on advancing the capabilities of AI in recognizing and interpreting civil rights legal matters.

In this role, you'll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input. No prior experience in AI is required - your domain knowledge is what matters.

• Design, create, and review legal data annotation tasks related to civil rights law, including discrimination, constitutional rights, disability access, police misconduct, and complex civil rights litigation scenarios.
• Assess and ensure the accuracy, clarity, and legal relevance of data sets and annotation guidelines.
• Draft clear written explanations and rationales for legal concepts and decision-making processes in context-rich scenarios.
• Provide detailed feedback and quality assurance on annotation deliverables completed by other legal professionals and contributors.
• Collaborate closely with project managers, platform specialists, and other legal experts to refine annotation workflows and protocols.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of project documentation to support best practices in civil rights legal data annotation.

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree and active bar admission in the United States.
• Demonstrated experience as a civil rights attorney, civil rights litigation attorney, or civil liberties attorney with substantial subject matter expertise.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a particular emphasis on clarity, precision, and legal reasoning.
• Proven ability to analyze and interpret nuanced legal issues related to civil rights, constitutional law, discrimination, and police practices.
• Familiarity with legal data annotation, legal technology, or digital knowledge management is a plus.
• Detail-oriented approach and commitment to producing high-quality, accurate deliverables.
• Experience engaging in collaborative, remote professional assignments within multidisciplinary legal or research-focused environments.

Originally posted on Himalayas