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Attorney / Legal Expert (Real Estate) at Mercor
posted 3 months agoAttorney / Legal Expert (Real Estate & Energy) | $50–$150/hr | Remote in US
Mercor is partnering with a leading AI organization to engage attorneys and legal professionals for a contract project focused on improving AI legal reasoning in energy and real property law. This flexible engagement involves reviewing, annotating, and refining legal content to make AI-generated legal analysis more accurate, clear, and useful.
Key Responsibilities
- Review and annotate energy and real-property legal documents (leases, easements, conveyances, interconnection agreements) against detailed written instructions
- Provide exhaustive, citation-backed determinations with document, page, and verbatim text references, accompanied by clear natural-language reasoning
- Apply consistent legal judgment across a high volume of documents and flag ambiguities for senior review
- Quality-check the work of other reviewers and help resolve disagreements (senior contributors)
- Collaborate with AI researchers to assess and improve model performance
Ideal Qualifications
- JD from an ABA-accredited US law school, or background as a paralegal or land/title professional
- Active US bar license in good standing (for attorney-level roles)
- Experience in real estate, energy, land use, or similar transactional practice
- Comfortable independently reading leases, easements, deeds, and similar instruments
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to locate and cite primary authority
- Familiarity with energy projects (oil & gas, solar, wind, transmission) or wholesale power markets (RTOs/ISOs) is a plus
Hiring Tiers
- Tier 1: Specialist / Law Clerk
- Tier 2: Associate / Senior Associate
- Tier 3: Partner
Candidates will be calibrated to the appropriate tier during the screening process.
Additional Details
- Must be based in the United States
- A project-provided Chromebook will be shipped to you for this engagement
- Compensation: $50–$150/hour, based on experience level
Application Process
- Submit your resume to begin
- Complete a short skills assessment (~15 minutes) covering energy and real-property law
- Mercor will follow up with qualified applicants
How to apply for this role
- Upload your resume — keep it up-to-date and in English. Mercor will auto-fill your profile from it.
- Complete the AI interview — a 15-minute conversation about your experience. Be ready to discuss specific projects and challenges you've solved.
- Submit your application — only about 20% of applicants finish all the steps, so completing yours puts you well ahead.