Legal Researcher

Skills

About this role

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Legal Research Subject Matter Expert (SME) to review AI-generated legal research outputs and/or produce expert legal research content, evaluating reasoning quality and step-by-step issue analysis while providing precise written feedback. You will assess solutions for accuracy, clarity, completeness, and adherence to the prompt; identify errors in issue spotting, jurisdiction handling, authority selection, citation accuracy, and rule application; verify that legal statements are appropriately supported by primary authority; write high-quality explanations and model research memos; and rate and compare multiple responses based on correctness and reasoning quality.

Legal Research, Case Law Analysis, Issue Spotting

Responsibilities

• Develop AI Training Content: Create detailed prompts and gold-standard legal research outputs (issue outlines, research plans, memo templates, authority summaries).
• Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI responses to improve accuracy, defensibility, citation support, and clarity.
• Ensure Model Integrity: Test AI outputs for inaccuracies, misleading certainty, jurisdictional errors, and bias; validate reliability across legal scenarios.

Qualifications

• JD/LLB (or equivalent) or advanced paralegal/legal research background with substantial primary-law research experience; active bar membership is a plus.
• 5+ years of professional experience performing legal research (law firm, in-house, government, academia, or legal publishing).
• Strong ability to conduct structured research: issue framing → jurisdiction selection → authority retrieval → synthesis → caveats/uncertainty.
• Proven experience interpreting statutes, regulations, and case law, including understanding holdings vs dicta and procedural posture relevance.
• Strong citation hygiene: ability to verify quotations, pinpoint citations, and proposition support, and to flag unsupported assertions.