Legal Researcher (English), AI Evaluation Specialist

You will evaluate AI-generated legal research and help improve the quality of legal answers. The work focuses on issue analysis, jurisdiction handling, authority selection, citation accuracy, rule application, and clear legal reasoning.

• Review legal research answers for accuracy, clarity, completeness, and adherence to the prompt.
• Find errors in issue spotting, jurisdiction handling, authority selection, citations, and rule application.
• Write explanations, model research memos, issue outlines, research plans, memo templates, and authority summaries.
• Create detailed prompts and gold-standard legal research outputs.
• Rate and rank responses for correctness, defensibility, citation support, and clarity.
• Test outputs for misleading certainty, jurisdictional errors, bias, and reliability across legal scenarios.

What it pays and takes

This is remote, part-time contract work open to candidates in Germany, India, and the United States. The role is listed at an intermediate experience level.

• Pay: $60 to $110 per hour.
• Schedule: 20 or more hours per week.
• Work arrangement: Remote contractor role.
• Location: Open to candidates in Germany, India, and the United States.
• Language: Minimum C1 English proficiency.
• Education: JD, LLB, or equivalent legal research background.
• Experience: Substantial primary-law research experience interpreting statutes, regulations, and case law.
• Legal judgment: Understand holdings versus dicta, procedural posture, jurisdictional variation, assumptions, and research limits.
• Writing: Clear, concise legal writing with strong citation hygiene, including quotation checks, pinpoint citations, and proposition support.
• Preferred: Experience with Westlaw, Lexis, or equivalent legal research tools.
• Preferred: Experience in AI training, annotation, editorial quality assurance, knowledge management, or legal publishing.
• Helpful: Experience with structured legal research from issue framing through authority retrieval and synthesis.
• Helpful: Comfort working across time zones in an hourly remote contractor setting.

How it works

Apply on OpenTrain with your resume, then complete the application on the hiring site. OpenTrain is free to join and is where people find AI training and data-labeling work and start applications.

About AI training work

AI training is the human work behind systems that generate and understand information. People review model answers, write examples, and rate quality so AI systems learn to be more accurate, clear, and reliable; specialists are needed when the work requires legal research judgment.