Remote US Transactional Attorney – Flexible Hours

Mercor; United States; Remote; USD 138,000 - 165,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Rolling applications

Job summary

Mercor, a leading AI-lab collaboration, seeks US transactional attorneys for an evergreen talent pool to support ongoing AI-risk assessment and data-annotation tasks. You will join a standing bench and be considered for rolling opportunities as projects launch.

Typical work includes evaluating AI-generated legal content, drafting concise justifications, and creating realistic prompts and reference answers from your transactional experience. Fully remote with flexible hours across the USA.

Qualifications

• Admitted to practice in at least one US state (active bar membership).
• 3+ years of US transactional practice (e.g., M&A, finance, capital markets, commercial contracts, or corporate matters).
• Hold a J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school.
• Write clearly and pay close attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Compare pairs of responses to transactional tasks (contract drafting, redlines, issues lists, due diligence summaries and deal analyses) and decide which is stronger, with clear reasoning
• Write concise justifications grounded in the source documents and applicable US law
• Create realistic legal prompts, fact patterns and model answers drawn from your transactional experience
• Flag errors, gaps and risky advice in AI-generated legal content
• Attend onboarding and calibration sessions

Skills

US law

Attention to detail

Clear writing

Bar admission

Education

J.D. (ABA-accredited)

Job description

Mercor, a leading AI-lab collaboration, seeks US transactional attorneys for an evergreen talent pool to support ongoing AI-risk assessment and data-annotation tasks. You will join a standing bench and be considered for rolling opportunities as projects launch.

Typical work includes evaluating AI-generated legal content, drafting concise justifications, and creating realistic prompts and reference answers from your transactional experience. Fully remote with flexible hours across the USA.