What the work actually involves

Tasks in this practice area are already published, which changes the nature of the job. Instead of drafting new benchmark items, you handle two things. First, adjudication: outside readers file commentary against a live task — that the prompt is ambiguous, that a rubric line rewards a wrong answer, that the attached record doesn't support the grading key. You decide whether the objection is correct, partially correct, or mistaken, and you write a reasoned disposition that will be read by people who disagree with you. Second, structural QC: a systematic pass over the prompt, the rubric and the source documents to check that they are internally consistent, that every rubric criterion is actually resolvable from the record, and that no exhibit is missing, duplicated or contradicted.

Subject matter tracks ordinary contested litigation practice — complaint and motion drafting and attack, discovery scope and proportionality disputes, privilege and work-product calls including inadvertent-production scenarios, damages models, and settlement posture and valuation. Source sets run from ten documents to a hundred, so a meaningful part of the time is spent reading the record closely enough to know whether a rubric's claimed answer survives contact with it.

What the screen looks for

  • Real litigation mileage: years in dispute resolution, the kinds of matters you carried, whether you have argued or briefed the motions you'd be grading.
  • Willingness to say a published item is wrong, and to say an objection is wrong, with reasons tied to specific rubric lines and specific exhibits.
  • Tolerance for genuine legal indeterminacy — knowing when a question has one defensible answer, a jurisdictional split, or no answer the record can support.
  • Discipline in long-document work: whether you can describe an actual method for auditing a hundred-exhibit set rather than gesturing at thoroughness.

Logistics

Fully remote and asynchronous, project-based, with reviewers typically committing a defined number of hours per week rather than fixed shifts. Observed pay for this listing is $120/hr; bands on Mercor vary by practice area, assessed depth and task type, and nothing here is a guarantee. Note that this is a private shortlist listing — the project team adds reviewers directly, so the practical route is a complete, well-evidenced platform profile in litigation rather than an application to this posting.