Legal Subject Matter Expert (Attorney) – Remote Contractor

About the role

In this hourly, remote contractor role you will work as an Attorney/Lawyer Subject Matter Expert (SME) to review AI‑generated legal responses and/or create expert legal content, evaluating reasoning quality and step‑by‑step issue analysis while providing precise written feedback.

Key responsibilities

• Develop AI Training Content: Create detailed prompts and gold‑standard legal outputs (issue analyses, drafting examples, checklists, policies, and memos).
• Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI responses to improve correctness, clarity, defensibility, and risk awareness.
• Ensure Model Integrity: Test AI outputs for inaccuracies, misleading certainty, confidentiality risks, and bias; validate reliability across legal scenarios.

Required profile

• JD/LLB (or equivalent) and active bar membership (or eligibility) in at least one jurisdiction.
• 5+ years of professional experience practicing law (law firm, in‑house, government, or legal aid).
• Strong ability to perform issue spotting and structured legal analysis (rules → application → conclusion), including identifying assumptions and uncertainty.
• Demonstrated experience in one or more practice areas (e.g., commercial/contracts, employment, privacy, corporate, litigation, IP, real estate, compliance).
• Strong research skills: locating and synthesizing primary authority (statutes, regulations, cases) and accurately characterizing holdings.
• Excellent drafting/editing skills: contracts/clauses, memos, letters, policies, pleadings, with attention to precision and tone.
• Exceptional attention to detail when fact‑checking and identifying overconfident claims, missing exceptions, jurisdictional pitfalls, or procedural risks; minimum C1 English proficiency.
• Comfortable evaluating answers for internal consistency, client safety, and appropriateness to context.
• Reliable, self‑directed, and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across time zones.
• Prior experience with AI data training/annotation, legal QA, editorial review, or knowledge‑management work is strongly preferred.