Paralegal Expert

Overview

This is an hourly, remote contractor role for a Paralegal Subject Matter Expert (SME) focused on reviewing AI-generated legal support responses and creating expert paralegal content. The role involves evaluating the quality of reasoning and step-by-step task execution in AI outputs, providing precise written feedback, and ensuring accuracy and clarity in legal support materials.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI training content including detailed prompts, document templates, checklists, research summaries, and drafting examples.
• Evaluate and rank AI responses to improve correctness, clarity, formatting, and procedural usefulness.
• Test AI outputs for inaccuracies, misleading certainty, confidentiality risks, and bias.
• Validate the reliability of AI models across various legal support use cases.

Requirements

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Paralegal Studies, Legal Studies, or a related field; paralegal certification is a plus.
• Minimum of 4 years professional experience as a paralegal or legal assistant in law firms, in-house legal departments, or public sector.
• Strong knowledge of legal support workflows including intake, fact gathering, document drafting, version control, and matter organization.
• Proven experience with legal research and summarizing authorities such as cases, statutes, and regulations clearly and accurately.
• Familiarity with litigation processes (pleadings, discovery, subpoenas, motion practice support) and/or transactional workflows (contracts, corporate filings), depending on specialization.
• Exceptional attention to detail with ability to spot inconsistencies, missing facts, formatting issues, and ambiguous wording.
• Minimum C1 English proficiency.
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information appropriately.
• Reliable, self-directed, and able to maintain consistent quality in a remote, hourly contractor role across time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with AI data training, annotation, document quality assurance, legal operations, or editorial review.
• Skills in court filings, compliance basics, document drafting, contract review, case management, litigation support, e-discovery, legal research, and legal writing.

Additional Information

• There is no immediate project available for this role; however, qualified candidates will be among the first contacted for future relevant opportunities.
• This role provides access to future projects through an expert network.

Location

• Remote contractor position

Compensation & Benefits

• Hourly contractor role (specific rates not provided)