Remote Bluebook Citation Editor for Law Students

Zekai; United States; Remote; USD 69,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

Zekai is seeking a Legal Citation Specialist (Law Students) for a 100% remote contract role. You will review Bluebook citation rules, build sample cite-checking tasks, and ensure consistency and quality across submissions.

The work leverages your Bluebook fluency and editorial judgment developed in law journals or reviews. Ideal candidates are current law students (2L/3L) or recent JD graduates with hands-on cite-checking experience and the ability to explain why a citation is wrong.

Qualifications

• Current or recent law student enrolled in a JD program.
• Hands-on Bluebook experience.
• Law journal or law review editing experience.

Responsibilities

• Review existing Bluebook and pincite grading rubrics, and flag rules that are unclear, incomplete, or would be applied inconsistently by different editors.
• Identify edge cases the rubrics don’t currently cover and recommend how they should be handled.
• Create sample cite-checking tasks: source material paired with citations containing realistic errors, along with the correct answer and an explanation of the rule involved.
• Build tasks across a range of citation types and difficulty levels, from straightforward formatting errors to subtle pincite and source-support problems.
• Apply Bluebook rules consistently across all submissions.
• Flag ambiguous cases to project coordinators instead of resolving them silently.
• Deliver assigned work on schedule and at the required quality level.

Skills

Bluebook proficiency

Editing law journals

Education

Current law student / JD graduate

Job description

Zekai is seeking a Legal Citation Specialist (Law Students) for a 100% remote contract role. You will review Bluebook citation rules, build sample cite-checking tasks, and ensure consistency and quality across submissions.

The work leverages your Bluebook fluency and editorial judgment developed in law journals or reviews. Ideal candidates are current law students (2L/3L) or recent JD graduates with hands-on cite-checking experience and the ability to explain why a citation is wrong.