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Litigation Associate

Mercor

Law & Legal Contract
Remote
$80 – $120/hr
March 5, 2026

Job Description

Role Overview

Mercor is hiring experienced Litigation Associates on behalf of a leading AI research lab building benchmarks to evaluate advanced AI systems on realistic legal research tasks.

In this role, you will help expand a dataset of high-quality legal research questions that reflect the kinds of problems practitioners encounter in real client matters. This is not a bar-exam-style drafting project. Instead, the focus is on practitioner-driven legal issues grounded in identifiable authority and controlling precedent.

Key Responsibilities

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  • Draft well-scoped, realistic legal research questions arising in litigation contexts
  • Mirror real client-driven issues such as:
  • Motions practice
  • Procedural disputes
  • Evidentiary issues
  • Appellate standards
  • Ensure research questions require:
  • Identification and synthesis of controlling authority
  • Jurisdictional legal analysis
  • Application of precedent to fact patterns
  • Avoid abstract academic hypotheticals
  • Frame questions clearly so they are answerable through professional legal research

Requirements

  • 4–7+ years of litigation experience at a reputable law firm
  • Strong experience conducting substantive legal research
  • Experience drafting research memoranda, briefs, or dispositive motions
  • Familiarity with jurisdiction-specific precedent analysis
  • Clear, structured legal writing style

Nice to Have

  • Federal clerkship experience
  • Appellate or complex litigation background
  • Prior involvement in legal technology, AI projects, or dataset development initiatives

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Why Join

  • Help shape how next-generation AI systems are evaluated on legal reasoning
  • Collaborate with a leading AI research organization
  • Flexible remote engagement structure

Contract & Payment Terms

  • Independent contractor engagement
  • Fully remote role with flexible schedule
  • Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded based on needs and performance
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise

Note: Mercor currently cannot support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier AI models using expert human knowledge.

Professionals across law, research, engineering, design, and other specialized fields contribute to Mercor projects helping build the next generation of AI systems.

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Job Summary

Company Mercor
Location Remote
Type Contract
Category Law & Legal
Salary $80 – $120/hr

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