US Contract Attorney — Transactional

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

Pay: $100 – $120/hour
Commitment: Hourly
Open to: USA
Field: Law

About the Role

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on high-quality legal reasoning data. This is an evergreen talent pool for experienced US Transactional attorneys — by applying, you join a standing bench and are considered for ongoing and upcoming legal-AI projects as they launch. We review applications on a rolling basis and reach out when work that fits your background comes up.

Typical work includes recurring side-by-side evaluations and legal dataset generation: you'll compare AI-generated legal work, judge which response is stronger and why, and create realistic transactional tasks and reference answers.

What You'll Do

• 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

You're a Good Fit If You

• Are admitted to practice in at least one US state (active bar membership)
• Have 3+ years of US transactional practice, such as 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

Bonus Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience at an AmLaw 100 firm (strongly preferred)
• Prior work on legal AI projects with Mercor
• Prior data annotation, AI evaluation or legal-benchmark experience

Role Highlights

• Evergreen talent pool — apply once and be considered for ongoing projects as they launch
• Fully remote, flexible hours; recurring tasks as new work comes up
• Applications reviewed on a rolling basis