Domain Expert – Legal (Lexis+ Research) (Train AI Models Part Time!)

To qualify you must use Lexis+ regularly - weekly or more - as a working part of your job, with 2+ years of professional legal experience.

Lexis+ Knowledge We Require

• Citators / good law
  • Shepard's Citations Service: Shepard's Signal indicators (red stop sign, orange "Q" questioned, yellow caution, green positive treatment, blue "I" citing references), Depth of Discussion indicators, citing references, overruling risk (Westlaw: KeyCite)
  • Distinguishing overruled, superseded, depublished, and distinguished-on-facts authority
• Searching & finding
  • Terms-and-connectors (Boolean) vs. natural-language search; segment searching
  • Lexis Headnotes, Case Summaries, and Case Notes (annotated statute equivalent to Notes of Decisions)
  • Lexis+ with Protégé - litigation issue filters, Shepard's Graphical (visual case history)
  • Protégé natural-language / AI-assisted search
• Secondary sources
  • Treatises (Matthew Bender), ALR, Am. Jur., practice guides, Practical Guidance (Lexis Practice Advisor), 50-state surveys
• Statutes & regulations
  • Annotated statutes/regs; version comparison; historical and effective-date versions; currentness
  • The version of the law in force on a given operative date
• Analytics & records
  • Litigation Analytics (Lex Machina); Brief Analysis; dockets / CourtLink / PACER

Responsibilities

• Confirm every case, statute, and regulation is still good law for the point cited; catch negative Shepard's treatment
• Catch non-existent or misdescribed cases; verify quotes, holdings, and pin cites
• Judge completeness: is controlling authority found; are on-point cases missed; are 50-state / multi-jurisdiction splits kept distinct
• Verify currency: the version of the law in force on the operative date
• Distinguish binding vs. persuasive authority; require verify-before-finalize

Requirements

• Frequent Lexis+ use - weekly or more - for substantive legal research in your current or recent role
• 2+ years of professional legal-research experience
• Reflexive Shepard's / KeyCite use; can spot a bad cite, misstated holding, or superseded statute on sight
• J.D. and bar admission, MLIS / law librarian, or equivalent research-heavy experience