Paralegal Expert

Overview

This hourly, remote contractor role is for a Paralegal Subject Matter Expert (SME). You will review AI-generated legal support responses and/or create expert paralegal content. Work focuses on evaluating reasoning quality and step-by-step task execution, then providing precise written feedback.

There is no immediate project for this role; however, if qualified, you may be among the first experts contacted when relevant opportunities arise. This work may also connect you to future projects available through the organization’s expert network.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI training content: Create detailed prompts and gold-standard paralegal deliverables, including document templates, checklists, research summaries, and drafting examples.
• Optimize AI performance: Evaluate and rank AI responses to improve correctness, clarity, formatting, and procedural usefulness.
• Ensure model integrity: Test AI outputs for inaccuracies, misleading certainty, confidentiality risks, and bias; validate reliability across legal support use cases.
• Provide precise written feedback: Assess solutions for accuracy, clarity, completeness, and adherence to the prompt.
• Identify legal and procedural issues: Flag errors in legal terminology, procedural steps, document structure, issue spotting, and citation/authority handling (where applicable).
• Fact-check legal-adjacent information: Verify and correct factual and legal-adjacent claims.
• Create high-quality explanations and model outputs: Produce explanations and outputs that demonstrate correct methods.
• Rate and compare responses: Compare multiple responses based on correctness and reasoning quality.

Requirements

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Paralegal Studies, Legal Studies, or a related field; paralegal certification is a plus.
• 4+ years of professional experience as a paralegal or legal assistant (law firm, in-house, or public sector).
• Strong command of legal support workflows, including intake, fact gathering, document drafting, version control, and matter organization.
• Proven experience with legal research and summarizing authorities (cases, statutes, regulations) clearly and accurately.
• Familiarity with either:
  • litigation processes (pleadings, discovery, subpoenas, motion practice support), and/or
  • transactional workflows (contracts, corporate filings), depending on lane.
• Exceptional attention to detail, including spotting inconsistencies, missing facts, formatting issues, and ambiguous wording.
• Minimum C1 English proficiency.
• Comfort working with confidentiality requirements and handling sensitive information appropriately.
• Reliable, self-directed work style with the ability to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with AI data training/annotation, document QA, legal ops, or editorial review.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Court Filings
• Legal Writing
• Contract Review
• Case Management
• E-discovery
• Compliance Basics
• Litigation Support
• Legal Research
• Document Drafting