Remote Law Assessment & Benchmark Expert

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 114,000 - 145,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor seeks an Applied Legal Benchmark Specialist for a remote contract role. You will craft original law questions to test deep understanding and rate difficulty from medium to expert, providing correct answers and plausible distractors.

You will also write concise reasoning steps, curate 1–5 academic references, and flag issues for clarity and solvability. Commitment: 10+ hours per week.

Qualifications

• Must-Have: JD , LLM , SJD , or doctoral candidate in Law or a closely related field.
• Master's degree considered for candidates with exceptional depth in a specific subdomain.
• Strong command of legal reasoning, statutory interpretation, and jurisprudential theory.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex legal ideas clearly and concisely.

Responsibilities

• Author original law questions to test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined with all necessary information in the problem statement.
• Rate each question's difficulty: Medium (intro undergraduate), Hard (advanced undergraduate), or Expert (post-graduate and above).
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives to challenge expert-level solvers.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear, concise reasoning in markdown format.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources like peer-reviewed journals and legal repositories.
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made.

Skills

Legal reasoning

Statutory interpretation

Jurisprudential theory

Written English

Education

JD

LLM

SJD

Doctoral candidate in Law

Master's degree considered

Job description

Mercor seeks an Applied Legal Benchmark Specialist for a remote contract role. You will craft original law questions to test deep understanding and rate difficulty from medium to expert, providing correct answers and plausible distractors.

You will also write concise reasoning steps, curate 1–5 academic references, and flag issues for clarity and solvability. Commitment: 10+ hours per week.