Legal Researcher

AI Trainer Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 178,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Hourly pay up to $110

Access to future expert projects

Job summary

SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, seeks a Legal Research SME contractor. You will review AI-generated outputs, write high-quality research memos, and provide precise written feedback to improve legal reasoning and accuracy.

You will assess reasoning quality, ensure proper citations, and identify jurisdictional errors across US/state and federal contexts, contributing to superior training data for premier AI models.

Qualifications

• JD/LLB (or equivalent) with substantial primary-law research experience
• 5+ years of professional legal research experience
• Familiarity with legal research tools and citation formats (Bluebook or local standards)

Responsibilities

• Develop AI Training Content: Create prompts and gold-standard legal research outputs (issue outlines, plans, memo templates)
• Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI responses for accuracy, defensibility, citation support, clarity
• Ensure Model Integrity: Test outputs for errors, jurisdictional accuracy, and bias; validate reliability across legal scenarios

Skills

Legal Writing

Citation checking

English

Jurisdictional Analysis

Statutory/Regulatory Interpretation

Legal Research

Primary Authority

Case Law Analysis

Issue Spotting

Research Memos

Education

Juris Doctor or equivalent

Tools

Westlaw/Lexis

Job description

Pay: up to $110/hour

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Legal Research Subject Matter Expert (SME) to review AI-generated legal research outputs and/or produce expert legal research content, evaluating reasoning quality and step-by-step issue analysis while providing precise written feedback. You will assess solutions for accuracy, clarity, completeness, and adherence to the prompt; identify errors in issue spotting, jurisdiction handling, authority selection, citation accuracy, and rule application; verify that legal statements are appropriately supported by primary authority (where required); write high-quality explanations and model research memos that demonstrate correct, risk-aware legal reasoning; and rate and compare multiple responses based on correctness and reasoning quality. This role is with SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, delivering training data for many of the world’s largest AI companies and foundation-model labs. Your legal expertise directly helps improve the world’s premier AI models by making their legal reasoning more accurate, reliable, and clearly explained.

Important:

There is no immediate project for this role; however, if qualified, you will be among the first experts we reach out to when relevant opportunities arise. This will also provide you with access to future projects available through our expert network.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI Training Content: Create detailed prompts and gold-standard legal research outputs (issue outlines, research plans, memo templates, authority summaries).
• Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI responses to improve accuracy, defensibility, citation support, and clarity.
• Ensure Model Integrity: Test AI outputs for inaccuracies, misleading certainty, jurisdictional errors, and bias; validate reliability across legal scenarios.

Requirements

• JD/LLB (or equivalent) or advanced paralegal/legal research background with substantial primary-law research experience; active bar membership is a plus.
• 5+ years of professional experience performing legal research (law firm, in-house, government, academia, or legal publishing).
• Strong ability to conduct structured research: issue framing → jurisdiction selection → authority retrieval → synthesis → caveats/uncertainty.
• Proven experience interpreting statutes, regulations, and case law, including understanding holdings vs dicta and procedural posture relevance.
• Strong citation hygiene: ability to verify quotations, pinpoint citations, and proposition support, and to flag unsupported assertions.
• Comfortable handling jurisdictional variation and clearly stating assumptions/limits (e.g., US state vs federal, EU member states, common law vs civil law).
• Excellent attention to detail; minimum C1 English proficiency with clear, concise legal writing.
• Reliable, self-directed, and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across time zones.
• Familiarity with legal research tools (e.g., Westlaw/Lexis or equivalents) and citation formats (Bluebook or local standards) is a plus.
• Prior experience with AI data training/annotation, editorial QA, knowledge management, or legal publishing is strongly preferred.

Skills: Legal Writing, Citation checking, English, Jurisdictional Analysis, Statutory/Regulatory Interpretation, Legal Research, Primary Authority, Case Law Analysis, Issue Spotting, Research Memos

Open to candidates in: Germany, India, The United States

Interview language: English