Legal Headhunter

micro1; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs and enterprises train foundational models and agents. As a Legal Recruiter – Referral Partnership, you will identify and engage top-tier attorneys for paid remote roles, verify bar status, and build a strong referral network.

This is an independent contractor engagement with success fees per placement. The role focuses on legal recruiting, contract staffing, and sourcing for specialized domains while maintaining confidentiality and ethical standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in legal recruiting, lateral search, or attorney/headhunter sourcing.
• Proven ability to conduct Boolean sourcing, candidate screening, and bar verification.
• In-depth knowledge of multiple legal practice areas.
• Strong networking skills and established legal/professional network.
• Experience in contract staffing and confidentiality management.

Responsibilities

• Identify and engage top-tier attorneys, in-house counsel, and paralegals for paid part-time, remote roles training and evaluating AI systems for our customer’s team.
• Generate and cultivate professional referrals within your legal network.
• Screen candidates for bar verification, practice-area fit, and contract suitability.
• Facilitate communication between candidates and the customer’s team, ensuring a seamless process.
• Document all recruitment activities and maintain detailed candidate records.
• Share market insights and candidate trends to inform sourcing strategy.
• Work independently within agreed requirements while upholding all legal and ethical standards.

Skills

Legal Recruiting

Lateral Search

Attorney Sourcing

Bar Verification

Practice-Area Knowledge

Contract Staffing

Candidate Screening

Boolean Sourcing

Networking

Confidentiality

Identify top-tier attorneys

Job description

Extended team

Required Skills

Legal Recruiting

Lateral Search

Attoorney Sourcing

Bar Verification

Practice-Area Knowledge

Contract Staffing

Candidate Screening

Boolean Sourcing

Networking

Confidentiality

About micro1

micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings.

Our AI recruiting agent sources and vets domain experts for our data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data. Our research spans high-value, specialized domains (legal, medical, finance, coding, etc.), where expert-level data is the hardest to produce and most valuable for advanced model performance. Our pipeline performance system ensures both quality and velocity.

Job Title: Legal Recruiter – Referral Partnership

Job Type: Contractor

Location: Remote

Job Summary: 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. This is a referral partnership; success fee of $1,000–$5,000 per placement, set per role before sourcing begins.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and engage top-tier attorneys, in-house counsel, and paralegals for paid part-time, remote roles training and evaluating AI systems for our customer’s team
• Generate and cultivate professional referrals within your legal network
• Screen candidates for bar verification, practice-area fit, and contract suitability
• Facilitate communication between candidates and the customer’s team, ensuring a seamless process
• Document all recruitment activities and maintain detailed candidate records
• Share market insights and candidate trends to inform sourcing strategy
• Work independently within agreed requirements while upholding all legal and ethical standards

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Experience in legal recruiting, lateral search, or attorney/headhunter sourcing
• Proven ability to conduct Boolean sourcing, candidate screening, and bar verification
• In-depth knowledge of multiple legal practice areas
• Strong networking skills and established legal/professional network
• Experience in contract staffing and confidentiality management
• Detail-oriented, self-motivated, and able to manage candidate pipelines independently
• Commitment to upholding professional integrity

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience sourcing hard-to-find legal profiles (e.g., energy regulatory, patent, immigration, IHL attorneys)
• Ability to generate qualified referrals and work as a partner
• May concurrently serve other clients (no exclusivity required)

This is an independent contractor engagement, not an employment position. There are no fixed working hours or guaranteed volume of assignments. Contractors are responsible for their own business expenses and applicable taxes.