Public Defense Work Research Participant

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About AI Training Work

AI training is the human side of building artificial intelligence. People with real-world expertise help create structured examples, evaluate information, and explain how work is performed so AI systems can become more useful and accurate.

This opportunity focuses on public-defense workflows. Your experience-based descriptions can help organize the responsibilities, task relationships, and variations involved in legal practice without exposing confidential case information.

• Contribute to cutting-edge AI work through your existing professional knowledge.
• Work remotely on a focused, flexible research assignment.

The Role

OpenTrain is recruiting current and former public defenders for a paid remote research opportunity about the work performed in public defense. You will describe your own responsibilities, the smaller activities within them, and how those activities connect in practice.

The research values firsthand legal-practice knowledge rather than an idealized job description. You must be able to explain the jurisdiction and period in which you practiced and use careful judgment when discussing confidential or privileged information.

• Role: Public Defense Work Research Participant
• Work type: Remote contractor opportunity
• Language: English
• Experience level listed: Entry level

What You'll Do

You will review written instructions and provide detailed, experience-based responses through a structured survey. The work asks you to describe personally performed public-defense tasks and explain how real workflows vary across responsibilities and arrangements.

A later research phase may ask you to provide additional details about a combined task tree. That phase will have separate scope and compensation terms.

• Describe your primary public-defense responsibilities.
• Break responsibilities into the smaller activities that make up the work.
• Explain which tasks depend on outputs from other tasks.
• Identify meaningful variations in how the same work is performed.
• Describe the jurisdiction and period in which you practiced.
• Provide additional task-tree details if invited to a later research phase.

Requirements and Confidentiality

You must be a current or former public defender with hands-on experience representing indigent clients. You should be able to describe work you personally performed clearly and accurately, including task dependencies and workflow variations.

Familiarity with court-appointed or contract public-defense arrangements is relevant. You must never provide real case documents, client names, case numbers, identifying facts, confidential information, or privileged material.

• Current or former public defender experience representing indigent clients.
• Ability to explain personally performed legal-work tasks and responsibilities.
• Ability to describe task dependencies and variations in public-defense workflows.
• Familiarity with the jurisdiction and period of practice.
• Strong judgment when handling confidential, privileged, or identifying information.
• Experience across different public-defense responsibilities or workflow arrangements is helpful but not required.
• Prior participation in similar research projects is welcome but not required.

Eligibility and Compensation

Wave 1 pays $100 USD per hour of reviewed survey time, with a maximum of 90 minutes. Any later research phase will have separate scope and compensation terms.

This contractor opportunity is available in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, the United Kingdom, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, and the United States.

• Wave 1 rate: $100 USD per hour.
• Wave 1 maximum: 90 minutes of reviewed survey time.
• Contractor engagement.
• English-language work.

How to Apply Through OpenTrain

OpenTrain gives specialists one place to discover AI training opportunities, present credible experience, and develop a lasting professional profile. Create a free account, review the opportunity details, and apply if your public-defense background matches the requirements.

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• Highlight your public-defense experience and relevant jurisdictions.
• Protect confidentiality throughout the application and research process.