Legal Counsel

Mercor
Chicago, IL
Category Legal
Job Description
Role Overview

As a Partner & General Counsel - Legal Domain Expert, you will evaluate the quality of legal knowledge work tasks and AI model outputs, design high-quality instruction specs, and develop challenging legal tasks and evaluation sets. You will work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance. You will collaborate with client researchers and specialists in adjacent fields and translate tacit legal judgment into explicit, teachable criteria.

What You Will Do

Your main day-to-day responsibilities will include evaluating the quality of legal knowledge work tasks and AI model outputs, designing high-quality instruction specs, and developing challenging legal tasks and evaluation sets.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will be a fit for this role if you have a Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school, 5+ years of substantive post-qualification legal practice, and specialization in at least one substantive practice area. You will also need to be able to work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Requirements

  • Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school
  • 5+ years of substantive post-qualification legal practice
  • Specialization in at least one substantive practice area
  • Active admission to at least one U.S. state bar, in good standing
  • Hands-on working use of large language models
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