Legal Expert — Civil Litigator (Deposition Transcript Review)
United States (remote) · Contract · $120-140/hr
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About the Role Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to build gold-standard legal reasoning data from a real deposition record. We're hiring one experienced civil litigator to work through a full rough deposition transcript and author the reference answers that AI models will be measured against.
What You'll Do
Read a rough deposition transcript of roughly 250 pages in full
Write gold answers to about 100 questions about the record, citing support by page and line
Complete eight short litigation tasks drawn from the same transcript
Prepare all gold answers without AI assistance, and note anywhere an AI tool was used only for navigating the transcript
Own every answer end to end: one litigator is responsible for the full set, so judgment stays consistent across all questions and tasks
You're a Good Fit If You
Are a practicing civil litigator who has personally taken and defended depositions (50+ depositions preferred)
Practice in commercial, contract or personal injury litigation
Are comfortable working from a long rough transcript and citing it precisely by page and line
Hold a J.D. and are licensed to practice law in the U.S. (Minnesota admission is not required; the questions turn on the record, not on state procedure)
Role Highlights
Fully remote; must be based in the United States
Role starts immediately, and applications are reviewed on a rolling basis
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