Media, Publishing & Communications Law Attorney

micro1; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 193,000; Part time

Job summary

micro1 is seeking a Media, Publishing & Communications Law Attorney on a remote contractor basis. The ideal candidate brings substantial experience in media and entertainment transactions, publishing rights, and FCC regulatory matters.

You will contribute expert legal reasoning on licensing, rights clearance, and regulatory compliance, reviewing and guiding fellow contributors, and delivering high-quality analyses on time.

Qualifications

• J.D. with active U.S. bar in good standing.
• 5+ years of substantive media or communications law practice.
• Corporate law foundation, ideally from a Vault 100 firm.

Responsibilities

• Contribute expert-level legal reasoning on media, publishing, and communications law questions, including rights clearance, licensing, and regulatory compliance.
• Work through realistic scenarios drawn from content licensing, broadcast regulation, and pre-publication review, explaining the analysis behind conclusions.
• Identify unsettled or jurisdictionally contested questions and those depending on facts that change the answer.
• Review and validate work from other contributors for legal accuracy and clarity of reasoning.
• Document reasoning clearly so the analysis is useful for conclusions.
• Flag ambiguous or poorly framed scenarios to project coordinators rather than resolving them silently.
• Deliver assigned work on schedule and at the required quality level.

Skills

Attention to detail

Rights licensing

FCC & regulatory matters

Pre-Publication & First Amendment

Media transactions

Judgment under conflicting pressures

Role-specific expertise in media law

Education

J.D. and active U.S. bar

5+ years media/communications law

Vault 100 firm background

Job description

pay

• Required Skills
• Attention to detail
• Rights and Content Licensing
• FCC and Broadcast Regulation
• Pre-Publication and First Amendment Review
• Media Transactions
• Judgment Under Conflicting Pressures

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.

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.

Role Title: Media, Publishing & Communications Law Attorney

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote — open worldwide, provided you hold an active U.S. bar admission

micro1 is engaging experienced Media, Publishing & Communications Law Attorneys to contribute to a customer's AI training initiative.

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.

We're looking for attorneys with substantive experience in media and entertainment transactions, publishing rights, or FCC communications regulatory matters.

Scope of Work

• Contribute expert-level legal reasoning on media, publishing, and communications law questions, including rights clearance, licensing, and regulatory compliance.
• Work through realistic scenarios drawn from content licensing, broadcast regulation, and pre-publication review practice, explaining the analysis behind your conclusions.
• Identify where a question is unsettled, jurisdictionally contested, or turns on facts that change the answer.
• Review and validate work from other contributors for legal accuracy and clarity of reasoning.
• Document your reasoning clearly, so the analysis is as useful as the conclusion.
• Flag ambiguous or poorly framed scenarios to project coordinators instead of resolving them silently.
• Deliver assigned work on schedule and at the required quality level.

Required Qualifications

• J.D. and active U.S. bar admission in good standing.
• 5+ years of substantive media or communications law practice — hands-on, not supervisory-only or adjacent exposure.
• A corporate law foundation, ideally built at a Vault 100 firm.