Legal Specialist

Overview

Legal Expert (SME) — United States (Remote)

This is a freelance, part-time contract opportunity for legal professionals with 2–6 years of post-qualification experience. Candidates must be based in the United States and able to commit a minimum of 3 hours per day.

Responsibilities

• Write realistic legal task prompts based on professional legal work, including areas such as contract negotiations, litigation, regulatory investigations, compliance reviews, intellectual property disputes, employment matters, policy analysis, and legal research.
• Prepare detailed step-by-step solution logic and provide a legally supported conclusion or Golden Answer for each task.
• Create 10–25 binary verifiers per task derived from legal analysis, ensuring each verifier reflects an objective legal conclusion supported by facts and applicable authorities.
• Develop or source accompanying data files (minimum of 3 per task), such as contracts, pleadings, statutes, regulations, agency guidance, internal policies, correspondence, legal memoranda, or judicial opinions.
• Embed a deliberate legal trap in each task, such as a superseded regulation, distinguishable precedent, conflicting jurisdiction, outdated agency guidance, or hidden contractual exception, along with realistic background noise.
• Submit a one-sentence "Lazy AI Test" predicting how a standard frontier model might fail the task, including the likely legal reasoning error.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree with 2–6 years of professional legal experience.
• Active bar membership preferred; candidates with strong legal practice experience may also be considered.
• Direct experience in at least one of the following domains:
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Corporate Law
  • Contract Review & Management
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Intellectual Property
  • Consumer Protection
  • Employment & Labor Law
  • Environmental Law
  • Legal Research & Writing
  • Policy & Legislative Analysis
• Background in law firm, in-house counsel, government, regulatory agency, policy organization, or legal consulting preferred.
• Familiarity with relevant U.S. legal authorities, including federal and state statutes, administrative regulations, agency guidance, judicial precedent, contract interpretation principles, corporate governance frameworks, employment and labor regulations, and intellectual property regimes.
• Ability to produce structured legal work products, document sets, evidence packets, and multi-file case materials.
• Methodical and precise writing skills with the ability to commit to objective legal conclusions supported by facts and authorities.

Important Availability Requirement

• Candidates must be available to work at least 3 hours per day during the project period.

Eligibility

• This opportunity is open to candidates currently based in the United States only.
• Candidates should have relevant experience working with U.S. legal concepts, authorities, and professional legal work products.