Senior Litigation Attorney (US)

micro1; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Part time

Job summary

micro1 is seeking a Senior Litigation Attorney to support a frontier AI evaluation project focused on complex commercial disputes. This remote engagement leverages your deep litigation experience to guide real-world input for model training.

You will draft and supervise case materials, mentor junior contributors, and ensure high-quality submissions while operating from public materials. Start promptly and collaborate with a distributed team of legal experts across jurisdictions.

Qualifications

• Licensed US attorney with active bar in at least one US jurisdiction.
• 10+ years of hands-on US litigation experience, including trial work.
• Fluent in pleadings, discovery, motions, hearings, and resolutions.
• Strong ability to guide junior contributors and maintain high drafting quality.

Responsibilities

• Seed realistic multi-turn litigation scenarios with detailed facts and issues.
• Direct junior legal contributors in producing briefs, motions, and letters.
• Conduct holistic quality control for all litigation turns and submissions.
• Develop rubrics defining success criteria for each litigation stage.
• Identify ambiguities and edge cases to challenge AI performance.
• Coordinate with team leads and ensure project alignment while using public materials.

Skills

Licensed US attorney

US litigation experience

Trial advocacy

Legal drafting

Managing legal teams

Remote collaboration

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Tools

Westlaw

LexisNexis

Microsoft Word

Job description

Role Title: Senior Litigation Attorney (US)

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote, United States.

micro1 is engaging Senior Litigation Attorneys to contribute expertise to a frontier AI evaluation project involving complex commercial disputes. 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.

Scope of Work

1. Seed realistic multi-turn litigation scenarios by drafting the facts, parties, legal issues, procedural posture, and initiating documents for each case.
2. Direct junior legal contributors in producing briefs, motions, discovery strategy documents, and demand letters — ensuring high-quality, well-reasoned submissions.
3. Conduct holistic quality control for each turn in the dispute simulation, reviewing and approving both junior and peer-level legal work as a neutral evaluator.
4. Develop and refine rubrics that define success criteria at each litigation stage, translating practical expertise into clear evaluation benchmarks for the AI pipeline.
5. Identify and surface ambiguities, edge cases, and procedural complexities that challenge AI performance, providing actionable feedback to the project team.
6. Maintain alignment with team leads and legal peers as project specifications and scenario requirements evolve.
7. Operate solely from public or synthetic materials, ensuring no use of client-confidential information throughout the engagement.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Licensed US attorney with active or lapsed bar admission in at least one US jurisdiction.
2. 10+ years of hands-on US litigation experience, including courtroom advocacy, discovery, motion practice, and case team leadership.
3. Deep expertise in at least one area: commercial contract disputes, shareholder/LLC disputes, or commercial real estate litigation; experience across multiple domains is a plus.
4. Fluency in the full litigation lifecycle — pleadings, discovery, motions, hearings, and resolution strategies.
5. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with mastery of formal legal drafting and adversarial reasoning.
6. Proven ability to review and direct junior legal work to a high professional standard without needing to redraft personally.
7. Adaptability to a fast-evolving, remote-first project environment and collaborative calibration with diverse legal experts.

Start Timeline & Availability

We typically fill roles within 48 hours and are looking for experts ready to jump in right away. If selected, we expect you to start your first tasks within 24–48 hours of completing onboarding.