Write original legal reasoning problems — contract, constitutional, IP and beyond — and grade how well AI models answer them. The work is remote and asynchronous, paid hourly in an observed $75–200 range depending on specialty and depth of practice.

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What the work actually involves

AfterQuery builds legal reasoning datasets, which means two intertwined tasks. The first is authoring: you draft fact patterns, contract excerpts, or doctrinal questions that a strong model will plausibly get wrong, along with a defensible answer key and the reasoning chain that supports it. The second is evaluation: you read model output and mark where it fails — a misread element of a cause of action, a citation to a case that says the opposite, a conclusion that happens to be right for entirely wrong reasons. Your written feedback is the product, not a formality, and it has to be specific enough that a technical reviewer with no JD can see exactly which step broke.

Expect items to be reviewed by other attorneys and sent back. Disagreement about the correct answer is common and often productive — jurisdictional splits, unsettled doctrine, and questions that are ambiguous as drafted all surface at review. Contributors who can say "this is a genuine circuit split, here is how I'd narrow the prompt" are worth more than contributors who defend every item.

What the platform screens for

A verifiable JD from an accredited law school, and practice, research, or academic experience behind it.
Depth in named areas of law, not a survey-level tour. Screens tend to push on one doctrine until you either go deeper or run out.
Willingness to be precise about uncertainty — flagging that a question turns on state law rather than asserting a national rule.
Writing that holds up unedited. Sample tasks are graded partly on whether the rationale is legible to a non-lawyer reviewer.
Realistic availability. Vague promises of "whenever I have time" read poorly; a stated weekly block reads well.

Logistics

Fully remote and asynchronous, with no fixed hours and no client-facing obligations. Contributors commonly work in blocks of a few hours, often 5–15 hours per week, with volume rising when a project needs coverage in a specific specialty. Pay is hourly within an observed $75–200 band — rates cluster toward the upper end for niche specialties and heavy litigation or transactional experience — and is not guaranteed for any given engagement. Independent-contractor arrangement; check your firm's outside-work and conflicts policies before applying.

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What the work actually involves

What the platform screens for

Logistics

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