Legal Technology Expert

Role Overview

Mercor is partnering with leading AI labs on Project Atlas — an initiative to build realistic enterprise environments that frontier AI agents are trained and evaluated in. We’re seeking experienced legal-operations and legal-technology professionals from AmLaw 100 firms, Fortune 500 in-house legal departments, and major legal-tech vendors to recreate the digital workspaces they run every day and design the tasks that genuinely challenge state-of-the-art AI.

You’ll bring your expertise in legal operations, e-discovery, contract lifecycle management, and matter/spend management to build a high-fidelity environment that mirrors the tools, files, and cross-functional workflows of a sophisticated legal department or law firm — and then author tasks grounded in the programs you actually run today.

Key Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use day-to-day — the process maps, intake forms, matter-management reports, CLM rollouts, e-discovery plans, vendor-evaluation decks, and email threads that reflect how you actually organize your work — with some representation of the platforms that support it (e.g., Icertis or HotDocs, Relativity, Clio / MyCase)

• Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows that require navigating multiple apps, files, and stakeholders in a way that meaningfully challenges frontier AI agents

• Collaborate with other legal-operations and legal-tech experts in your field to design the environment, shape task scope, and review each other’s 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 — the work you produce directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems

Ideal Qualifications

• 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 one or more areas such as:

• Legal operations, process improvement, and legal-spend management

• E-discovery and review workflows

• Contract lifecycle management

• Matter management and e-billing

• Legal intake, knowledge management, and enterprise-wide legal program design

• CLOC / ACC Legal Ops involvement a plus

• Day-to-day use of Relativity, Icertis, HotDocs / Contract Express, and Clio / MyCase

• Strong analytical thinking and writing — able to translate legal-ops workflows into structured task specs

Compensation Note

• Task Completion Pay: Competitive and based on task quality (~$1,750 – $2,150 per completed task, subject to change as the project evolves)

• Performance Bonus: Top performers receive a weekly bonus incentive on top of their per task rate!

• Hourly Opportunity: Top performers may be invited to transition to an hourly compensation model based on sustained quality and throughput.