Paralegal (General) for Legal Data Annotation

The work

You will help prepare legal materials for AI training by reviewing documents, analyzing case information, and turning legal content into accurate, structured data. The work requires careful judgment about legal terms, procedures, and document context.

You will work with legal documents and data quality checks while coordinating remotely with project coordinators on deliverables and project standards.

• Research and analyze legal topics and case materials.
• Review and annotate legal documents, case files, pleadings, and filings.
• Summarize legal content and prepare structured datasets for machine learning projects.
• Use Relativity and other eDiscovery tools to find, categorize, and extract relevant information.
• Check legal data and annotations for accuracy, completeness, and quality.
• Explain legal terminology, procedures, and document context.
• Coordinate remotely with project coordinators on deliverables and milestones.

What it pays and takes

This is a remote, part-time contractor role. Prior AI or data annotation experience is helpful but not required.

• Pay: $50 to $70 per hour.
• Work arrangement: Remote contractor work.
• Location: Open to candidates in the countries listed for this role.
• Language: Fluent English is required.
• Experience: Substantial paralegal experience in a US-based law firm or legal service provider.
• Skills: Legal research, document review, and drafting pleadings and filings.
• Tools: Hands-on familiarity with eDiscovery platforms, especially Relativity.
• Strengths: Clear written and verbal communication, organization, attention to detail, reliability, and care with sensitive legal information.
• Relevant backgrounds may include litigation, corporate, intellectual property, employment, real estate, or other legal practice areas.

How it works

You apply here in about two minutes and finish on the hiring platform. The next step is a short AI interview (technical roles include a coding challenge). Passing it is how you qualify for paid tasks, so take it soon after you are invited.

The hiring platform's application for this job asks for your resume, your LinkedIn profile, your phone number, your location and answers to 5 screening questions.

About AI training work

AI training work uses human-reviewed examples to help artificial intelligence understand language, documents, and real-world tasks. Legal experience is valuable because accurate annotation depends on understanding specialized terminology, procedures, and context; OpenTrain helps people find these roles and apply through its platform.