Domain Expert – Legal, Lexis+ Research

🕒 August 10

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $76 - $120 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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Mercor

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

Mercor is a company for which no descriptive text was provided in the input. Additional information (products, services, target customers, or industry specifics) is needed to create an accurate summary and select appropriate industries.

📋 Description

• 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 of controlling authority and identify missed on-point cases • Keep 50-state and multi-jurisdiction splits distinct • Verify the version of the law in force on the operative date • Distinguish binding from persuasive authority • Require verify-before-finalize standards • Work on projects training and enhancing AI systems for Mercor and its partners

🎯 Requirements

• Use Lexis+ regularly—weekly or more—as part of current or recent work • 2+ years of professional legal-research experience • Reflexive Shepard's / KeyCite use • Ability to spot bad citations, misstated holdings, or superseded statutes • J.D. and bar admission, MLIS / law librarian, or equivalent research-heavy experience • Knowledge of Citators, Shepard's Citations Service, Shepard's Signal indicators, Depth of Discussion indicators, citing references, and overruling risk • Ability to distinguish overruled, superseded, depublished, and distinguished-on-facts authority • Proficiency with terms-and-connectors (Boolean), natural-language, and segment searching • Knowledge of Lexis Headnotes, Case Summaries, Case Notes, Protégé, and Shepard's Graphical • Knowledge of treatises, ALR, American Jurisprudence, practice guides, Practical Guidance, and 50-state surveys • Knowledge of annotated statutes and regulations, version comparison, historical and effective-date versions, and currentness • Knowledge of Litigation Analytics, Lex Machina, Brief Analysis, dockets, CourtLink, and PACER • Must be able to work as an independent contractor • Mercor cannot support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work • Flexible schedule / work on your own schedule • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered • Competitive pay • Collaboration with leading researchers • Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems • Referral payments of up to $480 for each successful referral, with no limit on referrals