What the work actually involves

You will be doing two things, often in the same project. The first is producing gold-standard work product from a fact pattern — a motion, a brief, a contract provision, a discovery response — that becomes the reference a model's attempt is graded against. The second is grading: reading model output and deciding whether the provision does what it claims to do, whether the privilege call survives scrutiny, whether the cited case actually supports the proposition it's offered for. A third, harder task shows up on more mature projects: flagging output where the model states the law correctly and would still lose — wrong forum, wrong standard of review, facts that don't carry the argument. That last category is where the pay band sits at the top end, because it requires practice judgment rather than doctrinal recall.

What the screen is looking for

Mercor verifies a J.D., LL.B., or LL.M. and a current license to practice, plus professional experience in litigation, transactional, or regulatory work. The AI interview is short — roughly 20 minutes — and is built to surface whether you personally did the drafting and analysis you claim, recently enough to explain your reasoning. Expect follow-ups that push on a specific matter rather than a general area: which standard applied, why you chose that argument over the alternative, what you'd have done if the forum changed. Written clarity matters because nearly all the deliverable is explanation, and the platform screens for willingness to say an instruction is ambiguous instead of guessing quietly.

Logistics and what to expect

  • Standing listing, not an opening. It stays open whether or not a project is live. You will not receive an accept or reject decision on this listing.
  • Remote and asynchronous, with hours set per project. Rates in this field have posted at $100–$150/hr, set per project by scope and depth — observed, not guaranteed.
  • Matching timeline varies widely — a week to several months, depending on what clients are running. Actual rate, hours, and client are named on the specific project listing, and hiring happens there.
  • Completing the domain expert interview and joining every network you qualify for both improve match odds; you sign up once.