Verified Mercor opportunity
Domain Expert – Legal (Lexis+ Research) — To qualify you must use Lexis+ regularly - weekly or more - as a working part of your job, with 2+ years of professional legal experience. — Lexis+ knowledge we require — Citators / good law • Shepard's Citations Service: Shepard's Signal indicators (red stop sign, orange "Q" questioned, yellow caution, green positive treatment, blue "I" citing references), Depth of Discussion indicators, citing references, overruling risk _(Westlaw: KeyCite)_ • Distinguishing overruled, superseded, depublished, and distinguished-on-facts authority — Searching & finding • Terms-and-connectors (Boolean) vs. natural-language search; segment searching • Lexis Headnotes, Case Summaries, and Case Notes (annotated statute equivalent to Notes of Decisions) • Lexis+ with Protégé - litigation issue filters, Shepard's Graphical (visual case history) • Protégé natural-language / AI-assisted search — Secondary sources • Treatises (Matthew Bender), ALR, Am. Jur., practice guides, Practical Guidance (Lexis Practice Advisor), 50-state surveys — Statutes & regulations • Annotated statutes/regs; version comparison; historical and effective-date versions; currentness • The version of the law in force on a given operative date — Analytics & records • Litigation Analytics (Lex Machina); Brief Analysis; dockets / CourtLink / PACER — What you'll do • 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: is controlling authority found; are on-point cases missed; are 50-state / multi-jurisdiction splits kept distinct • Verify currency: the version of the law in force on the operative date • Distinguish binding vs. persuasive authority; require verify-before-finalize — Requirements • Frequent Lexis+ use - weekly or more - for substantive legal research in your current or recent role • 2+ years of professional legal-research experience • Reflexive Shepard's / KeyCite use; can spot a bad cite, misstated holding, or superseded statute on sight • J.D. and bar admission, MLIS / law librarian, or equivalent research-heavy experience