Verified Mercor opportunity
About the Role — Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to train frontier models on high-quality legal reasoning data. We're hiring legal research experts with extensive Westlaw experience to evaluate AI-generated legal research, verify legal authority, and help shape how the next generation of AI reasons about complex legal issues. — We welcome practicing attorneys, research attorneys, judicial law clerks, law librarians, and other legal professionals who regularly conduct substantive legal research using Westlaw. — What You'll Do • Evaluate AI-generated legal research against real-world professional standards • Verify that cited cases, statutes, and regulations are accurate, current, and remain good law • Identify incorrect citations, misstated holdings, outdated authority, and missing controlling precedent • Distinguish binding from persuasive authority and provide clear written explanations supporting your evaluations • Help improve AI legal research by providing structured feedback and participating in calibration sessions — You're a Good Fit If You • Have 2+ years of professional legal experience in a litigation- or research-heavy role, OR as a law librarian or legal researcher supporting substantive legal research • Regularly use Westlaw as part of your current or recent professional work • Have experience validating case law, statutes, regulations, and legal citations using tools such as KeyCite and other Westlaw research features • Hold a J.D. and bar admission, or an MLIS (or equivalent) with professional law librarian or legal research experience — Bonus Qualifications • Experience as a judicial law clerk or research attorney • Experience using Lex Machina, PACER, Practical Law, or other advanced legal research tools • Experience conducting multi-jurisdiction or 50-state legal research • Background in commercial litigation, appellate law, employment, regulatory, or government practice