The work

Project Rachel is a published legal benchmark, which means its tasks are visible and open to challenge. Your first job is adjudication: someone has filed commentary arguing a prompt is ambiguous, a rubric criterion is wrong, or the stated model answer misreads the underlying deal documents. You read the commentary, read the source set, and issue a reasoned disposition — sustained, rejected, or partially sustained with a specific rubric edit. The standard is whether a competent M&A associate working from those documents alone would reach the graded answer, not whether you personally would have drafted the task differently.

The second job is structural QC across the whole item. Does the prompt state the governing law, the deal posture, and what the requester actually wants produced? Does every rubric line tie to something findable in the attached documents? Are the exhibits complete — schedules referenced but not attached, redlines without a clean version, a disclosure schedule that cites section numbers the SPA does not contain? Source sets run 10 to 100 documents, so QC means genuinely opening the data room, not spot-checking the first five files.

What the screen looks for

  • Real transactional depth: you have run or substantively staffed diligence and drafted or negotiated SPA provisions, not merely observed them.
  • Willingness to reject commentary that is articulate but wrong, and to sustain commentary that is sloppy but correct.
  • Rubric literacy — the instinct to write criteria that are checkable against a document, not criteria that depend on taste.
  • Stamina and discipline with large source sets, since most defects hide in document 60 of 80.

Logistics

Fully remote and asynchronous, worked against a task queue with turnaround windows rather than fixed hours. Contributors commonly take 10–20 hours a week; rates around $120/hr have been observed on this project and are not guaranteed. This is a private shortlist — the team adds candidates directly rather than accepting open applications, so preparation here is for the screening conversation you may be invited into.