Legal Researcher

Key Responsibilities

• Create detailed prompts and gold-standard legal research outputs (issue outlines, research plans, memo templates, authority summaries).
• Evaluate and rank AI responses to improve accuracy, defensibility, citation support, and clarity.
• Test AI outputs for inaccuracies, misleading certainty, jurisdictional errors, and bias; validate reliability across legal scenarios.

Requirements

• JD/LLB (or equivalent) or advanced paralegal/legal research background with substantial primary-law research experience; active bar membership is a plus.
• 5+ years of professional experience performing legal research (law firm, in-house, government, academia, or legal publishing).
• Strong ability to conduct structured research: issue framing → jurisdiction selection → authority retrieval → synthesis → caveats/uncertainty.
• Proven experience interpreting statutes, regulations, and case law, including understanding holdings vs dicta and procedural posture relevance.
• Strong citation hygiene: ability to verify quotations, pinpoint citations, and proposition support, and to flag unsupported assertions.
• Comfortable handling jurisdictional variation and clearly stating assumptions/limits (e.g., US state vs federal, EU member states, common law vs civil law).
• Excellent attention to detail; minimum C1 English proficiency with clear, concise legal writing.
• Reliable, self-directed, and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across time zones.
• Familiarity with legal research tools (e.g., Westlaw/Lexis or equivalents) and citation formats (Bluebook or local standards) is a plus.
• Prior experience with AI data training/annotation, editorial QA, knowledge management, or legal publishing is strongly preferred.