Legal Rubric & Ground Truth Auditor (Licensed Attorney)
Mercor is seeking experienced licensed attorneys to audit rubrics and ground-truth answers for a legal research dataset used to evaluate advanced AI systems. You will review existing legal research questions, verify the accuracy of model answers, and refine grading rubrics so…
- Field
- Law
- Where
- United States
- Commitment
- hourly
- Asks for
- Licensed attorney
- Openings
- 3
- Posted
- yesterday
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How this pay compares
The title points to writing prompts, problems and answers: writing questions, test tasks, rubrics or model answers for a model to learn from. What each kind of AI training work pays
At $130/hr (the midpoint of $120 to $140), this role pays more than 60% of the 157 open law roles with a listed pay range, above the median of $115.
Open law roles that ask for a licensed attorney have a median of $130/hr (110 roles).
Among platforms with 10 or more priced law roles, micro1 has the highest median ($135/hr across 54 roles) and Mercor the lowest ($110/hr across 15).
Mercor roles that closed since late October stayed listed a median of 39 days (136 roles). Mercor posted this one yesterday.
Computed from 2,746 open roles we track across Mercor, micro1, Handshake AI, Alignerr, Appen and OpenTrain AI, refreshed daily. Midpoints of listed ranges; “up to” ceilings are left out of medians.
What you would earn at this rate
Per week, before tax
$1,950
Per month, if the work is steady
$8,450
- Tax
- Contract pay arrives with no tax withheld. A US contractor at this rate and these hours would set aside about $2,136 a month for self-employment tax plus federal income tax at the 12% bracket (25%, before state tax). Outside the US, your own country's rules apply.
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Open law roles on each platform
The same kind of work, priced on every platform we track, with the best-paid open role on each.
| Platform | Open | Median | Best-paid open role |
|---|---|---|---|
| micro1 | 54 | $135/hr | Domain Researcher, Legal$400k-800k/yr |
| OpenTrain AI | 79 | $120/hr | Civil Rights Attorney for Legal AI Evaluation$140-400/hr |
| Mercorthis role | 15 | $110/hr | US Patent Attorney — Prosecution & Litigation$180/hr |
| Alignerr | 9 | $43/hr | Legal Expert: AI Legal Reasoning Review$75-95/hr |
| Handshake AI | 3 | up to $110/hr3 priced | Legal ProfessionalsUp to $150/hr |
“Up to” rows list only ceilings, so their median is a maximum, not comparable with the range midpoints above them.
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Mercor is seeking experienced licensed attorneys to audit rubrics and ground-truth answers for a legal research dataset used to evaluate advanced AI systems. You will review existing legal research questions, verify the accuracy of model answers, and refine grading rubrics so the dataset reflects current law and sound legal reasoning. This is a short-term, fully remote engagement.
Responsibilities
- Audit grading rubrics for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and clarity.
- Verify ground-truth answers against controlling statutes, regulations, and case law.
- Identify legal errors, outdated authority, missing issues, and ambiguous grading criteria.
- Rewrite or correct ground-truth answers and rubric items where needed.
- Provide concise, structured written feedback on each item reviewed.
Practice Areas
The dataset spans eight practice areas. Experience in one or more is required, and breadth across several is a plus:
- Administrative / Regulatory
- Business & Commercial
- Civil Litigation
- Constitutional / Civil Rights
- Criminal
- Family
- Health
- Immigration
Required Qualifications
- Juris Doctor (JD) and active U.S. bar admission in good standing.
- 5+ years of legal practice.
- Substantive experience in at least one of the practice areas above.
- Strong legal research, analysis, and writing skills.
- High attention to detail and the ability to apply consistent judgment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience across multiple listed practice areas.
- Judicial clerkship, appellate, government, or law firm research experience.
- Prior experience reviewing or grading legal work product, or with AI / legal-tech evaluation projects.
Why Join?
- Apply your legal expertise to shape how AI systems are evaluated for legal research.
- Collaborate with a leading AI research organisation.
From applying to your first payment on Mercor
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Work
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First payment
Mercor pays each Wednesday around noon Pacific through Stripe (or Wise). Stripe holds a first payout for 7 days, and standard transfers take up to 5 business days to reach your bank.
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Full Mercor profile: watch-outs and the public record →Pay history
Mercor has listed this role at $120-140/hr since Nov 10, 2026 with no change.
Across Mercor's law roles, the median listed pay was $105/hr on Nov 1, 2026 (18 roles) and is $110/hr as of Nov 11, 2026 (15 roles).
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