Attorney / Legal Expert (Real Estate / Energy) - AI Training Project

Role Overview

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI organization to engage attorneys and legal professionals for a project focused on improving the legal reasoning of AI systems in energy and real property law. This flexible, contract-based engagement involves reviewing, annotating, and refining legal content drawn from documents such as leases, easements, conveyances, and interconnection agreements, helping make AI-generated legal analysis more accurate, clear, and useful.

Key Responsibilities

• Review and annotate energy and real-property legal documents against detailed written instructions
• Provide exhaustive, citation-backed determinations, citing the document, page, and verbatim text supporting each conclusion, with a clear natural-language explanation of your reasoning
• Apply consistent legal judgment across many documents and flag ambiguities for senior review
• Quality-check the work of other reviewers and help resolve disagreements (more senior contributors)
• Collaborate with researchers to assess and improve model performance

Ideal Qualifications

• JD from an ABA-accredited US law school, 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 reading leases, easements, deeds, and similar instruments independently
• Demonstrated attention to detail and ability to locate and cite primary authority
• Familiarity with energy projects (oil and gas, solar, wind, transmission) or wholesale power markets (e.g., RTOs/ISOs) a plus
• We are hiring at three levels and will calibrate during screening:
• Tier 1 (Specialist / Law Clerk)
• Tier 2 (Associate / Senior Associate)
• Tier 3 (Partner)

More About the Opportunity

• Must be based in the United States; a project-provided Chromebook will be shipped to you for this work

Compensation & Contract Terms

• $50–$150/hour for US-based professionals, based on experience level.

Application Process

• Submit your resume to begin
• Complete a short skills assessment (about 15 minutes) covering energy and real-property law
• Mercor will follow up with qualified applicants