Legal AI Subject Matter Expert (Attorney) – Remote Contractor

About the role

This is an hourly, remote contractor position where you will act as an Attorney/Lawyer Subject Matter Expert (SME) for AI‑generated legal content. You will review, evaluate, and improve AI responses, ensuring they are accurate, clear, and legally sound.

Key responsibilities

• Develop AI training content: create detailed prompts and gold‑standard legal outputs such as issue analyses, drafting examples, checklists, policies, and memos.
• Optimize AI performance: evaluate and rank AI responses to enhance correctness, clarity, defensibility, and risk awareness.
• Ensure model integrity: test AI outputs for inaccuracies, misleading certainty, confidentiality risks, and bias; validate reliability across diverse legal scenarios.

Required profile

• JD/LLB (or equivalent) with active bar membership (or eligibility) in at least one jurisdiction.
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience practicing law in a law firm, in‑house, government, or legal‑aid setting.
• Proven ability to perform structured legal analysis (issue spotting, rule application, conclusion) and draft precise legal documents.

Required skills

• Strong legal research skills, including locating and synthesizing primary authority and accurately characterizing holdings.
• Excellent drafting and editing abilities for contracts, memos, policies, pleadings, with attention to precision and tone.
• High attention to detail for fact‑checking, identifying overconfident claims, missing exceptions, jurisdictional pitfalls, and procedural risks; minimum C1 English proficiency.