About This Role
Mercor is hiring experienced
Litigation Associates on behalf of a leading AI lab building a benchmark to evaluate advanced AI systems on realistic legal research tasks. You will help expand a dataset of high-quality legal research questions that mirror the types of research problems practitioners encounter in active client matters. This is not a bar-exam-style drafting project. We are seeking realistic, practitioner-driven legal questions grounded in identifiable authority and controlling precedent.
Key Responsibilities
- Draft well-scoped, realistic legal research questions arising in litigation contexts
- Mirror real client-driven issues (motions practice, procedural disputes, evidentiary issues, appellate standards, etc.)
- Ensure questions require:
- Identification and synthesis of controlling authority
- Jurisdictional analysis
- Application of precedent to fact patterns
- Avoid abstract academic hypotheticals
- Clearly frame questions so they are answerable through professional legal research
Requirements
- 4–7+ years at a reputable law firm (litigation practice)
- Strong experience conducting substantive legal research
- Experience drafting research memoranda, briefs, or dispositive motions
- Familiarity with jurisdiction-specific precedent analysis
- Clear, structured writing style
Nice to Have
- Federal clerkship experience
- Appellate or complex litigation background
- Prior experience contributing to AI, legal tech, or dataset development projects
Why Join
- Contribute to shaping how next-generation AI systems are evaluated in legal reasoning
- Work closely with a leading AI research organisation
Many top hiring platforms use AI-powered screening as the first step. Here's how to stand out when applying for a Litigation Associate role:
Critical Thinking: Demonstrate your ability to assess content for factual accuracy, logical consistency, and source credibility. Show a systematic evaluation framework.
Attention to Detail: Be prepared with examples of catching subtle errors or inconsistencies that others might miss. Precision is the core skill being evaluated.
Calibration: Discuss how you maintain consistent evaluation standards across many items. Self-awareness about your own biases is a strong signal.
Practice Behavioral Question
"Tell me about a time you had to make a critical decision with incomplete information. What was your framework, and what was the outcome?"