Legal Operations Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $75/hr

About The Job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Legal Technology Expert

Type: Contract

Compensation: $55–$75/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily. Include process maps, intake forms, matter-management reports, CLM rollouts, e-discovery plans, vendor-evaluation decks, and email threads.
• Design multi-step tasks based on real workflows. Require navigation of multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents.
• Collaborate with other legal-operations and legal-tech experts to design the environment, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor.
• Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for legal-tech agent benchmarks.
• Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Your work directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 3+ years of full-time experience in legal operations or legal technology at an AmLaw 100 firm, Fortune 500 in-house legal department, or major legal-tech vendor.
• Background in legal operations, process improvement, and legal-spend management.
• Experience in e-discovery and review workflows.
• Knowledge of contract lifecycle management and matter management.
• Day-to-day use of Relativity, Icertis, HotDocs / Contract Express, and Clio / MyCase.
  
  
  

Preferred

• Involvement in CLOC / ACC Legal Ops.
• Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.
  
  
  

Compensation & Legal

• Transition from an hourly rate to compensation based on throughput of quality work.
  
  
  

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form
  
  
  

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com
  
  
  

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.