Legal Researcher Contract NEW

Job Summary

This hourly, remote contractor role requires you to serve as a Legal Research Subject Matter Expert (SME) for SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate. Your primary responsibilities include reviewing AI-generated legal research outputs and creating expert legal research content to evaluate reasoning quality, step-by-step issue analysis, and precision in written feedback. You will assess solutions for accuracy, clarity, completeness, and adherence to prompts while identifying errors in issue spotting, jurisdiction handling, authority selection, citation accuracy, and rule application. Additionally, you will verify that legal statements are appropriately supported by primary authority where required, write high-quality explanations and model research memos demonstrating correct, risk-aware legal reasoning, and rate and compare multiple AI responses based on correctness and reasoning quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop AI Training Content: Create detailed prompts and gold-standard legal research outputs including issue outlines, research plans, memo templates, and authority summaries.
• Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI responses to improve accuracy, defensibility, citation support, and clarity.
• Ensure Model Integrity: Test AI outputs for inaccuracies, misleading certainty, jurisdictional errors, and bias; validate reliability across legal scenarios.

Your Profile

• 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.

How to apply

Apply online at: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4454099673/
Original listing source: LinkedIn / External recruitment platform.