Paralegal (AI Training)

DataAnnotation; United States; Remote; USD 103,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

DataAnnotation is seeking a paralegal/legal assistant to vet AI-generated legal materials. You will draft prompts to test research and filing tasks, review outputs for accuracy of citations and procedural correctness, and rate reasoning. The role emphasizes producing precise work that can be filed in court.

Experience in legal research, citation checking, and clear written English is essential. This is a flexible, remote independent-contractor position with compensation based on task difficulty

Qualifications

• Hands-on paralegal or legal-assistant experience.
• Comfort with legal research, citation checking, and court procedure.
• Clear written English; explanations are the training signal.

Responsibilities

• Draft prompts that test legal research, cite-checking, document review, and filing preparation across practice areas.
• Review AI output for invented citations, overruled authority, wrong pin cites, and procedural misses, and rate the reasoning.
• Write the correct work product when the model falls short, accurate enough to file.

Skills

Paralegal experience

Legal research

Citation checking

Written English

Job description

Overview

A model will draft a cite-check that looks airtight and still miss that the case was overruled, point to the wrong treatment, and quietly invent a pin cite. In litigation those errors do not stay small. Catching them before they reach a filing is exactly what a paralegal does.

Overview

A model will draft a cite-check that looks airtight and still miss that the case was overruled, point to the wrong treatment, and quietly invent a pin cite. In litigation those errors do not stay small. Catching them before they reach a filing is exactly what a paralegal does. As a Paralegal you'll evaluate AI on legal research, document review, and filings, verify the work against the actual record, and write the work product a careful litigation team would rely on.

What you’ll actually do

• Draft prompts that test legal research, cite-checking, document review, and filing preparation across practice areas.
• Review AI output for invented citations, overruled authority, wrong pin cites, and procedural misses, and rate the reasoning.
• Write the correct work product when the model falls short, accurate enough to file.

Roles this fits

Common backgrounds: Paralegal, Legal Assistant, Litigation Paralegal.

What we look for

• Hands‑on paralegal or legal‑assistant experience.
• Comfort with legal research, citation checking, and court procedure.
• Clear written English: your explanations are the training signal.
• No degree required. We care about what you can do, not where you learned it.

Compensation

Up to $125+/hr depending on task difficulty and specialization. Many contributors add $100k–$200k a year; some make it their full-time income.

About DataAnnotation

DataAnnotation is where 1M+ experts train the world’s leading AI models. Hundreds of millions paid to contributors to date, and the average contributor stays 5+ years. Flexible, remote, and always project-available.

Hourly rate up to $125+ / hour

Commitment Flexible hours

Type Independent contractor

Payouts Weekly