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Legal Operations Expert - AmLaw 100

$1,750 - $2,150 / hour
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Posted May 28
Part Time
RemoteNew York

About The Job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Legal Technology Expert

Type: Contract

Compensation: $1,750–$2,150 per completed task

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily. Include process maps, intake forms, matter-management reports, CLM rollouts, e-discovery plans, vendor-evaluation decks, and email threads.
  • Design multi-step tasks grounded in real workflows. Require navigating multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents.
  • Collaborate with other legal-operations and legal-tech experts. Design the environment, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor.
  • Work asynchronously with research teams. Refine task designs and evaluation criteria for legal-tech agent benchmarks.
  • Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Inform how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • 3+ years of full-time experience in legal operations or legal technology at an AmLaw 100 firm, Fortune 500 in-house legal department, or major legal-tech vendor.
  • Background in legal operations, process improvement, and legal-spend management.
  • Experience with e-discovery and review workflows.
  • Knowledge of contract lifecycle management.
  • Familiarity with matter management and e-billing.
  • Experience in legal intake, knowledge management, and enterprise-wide legal program design.
  • Day-to-day use of Relativity, Icertis, HotDocs / Contract Express, and Clio / MyCase.
  • Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.

Preferred

  • CLOC / ACC Legal Ops involvement.

Compensation & Legal

  • Task Completion Pay: Competitive and based on task quality (:$1,750 – $2,150 per completed task, subject to change as the project evolves).
  • Performance Bonus: Top performers receive a weekly bonus incentive on top of their per task rate.
  • Hourly Opportunity: Top performers may transition to an hourly compensation model based on sustained quality and throughput.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

  • Upload resume
  • AI interview based on your resume
  • Submit form

Resources & Support

  • For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
  • For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.