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Legal Assessment Specialist - JD

$83 - $105 per hour

Mercor

Toronto, ON
  • Remote job

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: Applied Legal Benchmark Specialist

Type: Contract

Compensation: $83–$105/hour

Location: Remote

Commitment: 10+ hours/week

Role Responsibilities

  • Author original law questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall.
  • Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined. All necessary information must be in the problem statement.
  • Rate each question's difficulty: Medium (intro undergraduate), Hard (advanced undergraduate), or Expert (post-graduate and above).
  • Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives that challenge expert-level solvers.
  • Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear, concise reasoning in markdown format.
  • Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources (peer-reviewed journals, legal repositories).
  • For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • JD , LLM , SJD , or doctoral candidate in Law or a closely related field.
  • Master's degree considered for candidates with exceptional depth in a specific subdomain.
  • Strong command of legal reasoning, statutory interpretation, and jurisprudential theory.
  • Excellent written English and ability to express complex legal ideas clearly and concisely.

Preferred

  • Experience with bar exam writing, legal academia, or judicial clerkships is a strong plus.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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  • Submit form

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Vacancy posted 8 days ago
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