What the work actually involves
You receive batches of real legal documents — commercial contracts, leases, court filings, agency guidance, energy and real estate instruments — along with a written review guideline that tells you exactly what to extract, how to characterize it, and how to cite it. Your output is a structured annotation: the issue or answer, the reasoning, and a pinpoint citation carrying document name, page number, and verbatim quoted text. Some tasks are research-shaped instead: a statutory or regulatory question that you resolve and write up as a short, sourced memo. Everything is reviewed by experienced practitioners, and consistency across a batch matters as much as being right on any single item.
What the screen is looking for
- Enrollment and standing. Current 1L, 2L, or 3L at an ABA-accredited school. This is a gate, not a preference.
- Citation discipline. Whether you instinctively quote verbatim and cite to a page rather than paraphrasing a document from memory.
- Guideline fidelity. Whether you can follow a rubric that conflicts with how you were taught to write, and flag the conflict instead of silently improvising.
- Doctrinal footing. Contracts, real estate, energy, administrative law, and regulatory compliance come up most; expect follow-up questions that go one layer past the survey-course answer.
- Honest availability. 10–20 hours a week during a 2–3 week window, against your actual class and exam calendar.
Logistics
Fully remote and asynchronous — no scheduled calls, no fixed hours. Work is assigned project by project and you accept or decline each one, but once accepted, turnaround windows are real and short given the compressed engagement. Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, or Harvey familiarity helps on research tasks but is listed as preferred, not required. Pay in the $100–150/hr range is what has been observed on this listing; actual rates depend on project and task type.