Paid Opportunities
Get Paid for Your Legal Expertise
Explore remote AI, research, consulting, and expert projects for law students, lawyers, and other professionals.
Some opportunities pay $100+/hour.
Applications are handled by Mercor. No CaseBriefly account needed.
Remote Projects
Work from anywhere. These are remote engagements, not relocations.
Flexible Hours
Project-based work that fits around class, clinic, or a full caseload.
Competitive Pay
Hourly rates that reflect what legal judgement is actually worth.
Use Your Legal Knowledge
The skill being paid for is reading a rule properly and applying it.
Featured Opportunities
A short, curated list — not a job board. Rates are as advertised by Mercor and are reviewed against the live listings.
Legal AI Project
Law Expert — AI Evaluation
Evaluate how frontier AI models reason about legal problems: read the model's analysis, judge whether the rule statement and application would survive scrutiny, and write the correction when it would not.
$110–$150 / houradvertised
- JD, LL.B., or equivalent legal qualification
- Comfortable writing precise legal analysis under a rubric
- No AI or engineering background required
Subject Matter Expert
Legal Subject Matter Expert
Write gold-standard answers to hard legal questions and build the edge cases that expose where a model's reasoning breaks — contract analysis, litigation strategy, regulatory interpretation, due diligence.
$100–$150 / houradvertised
- J.D. / LL.B. holders and practising attorneys
- Ability to reason independently through ambiguous legal issues
- Clear written explanation of why an answer is right
Domain Expert
Practice Area Specialist
Depth-first work for people who live in one area of law. Litigation, IP, corporate, tax, antitrust, bankruptcy, and real estate projects each need someone who knows where the doctrine actually bites.
$90–$100 / houradvertised
- Demonstrable depth in a single practice area
- Litigation, transactional, corporate, regulatory, or clerkship background
Compliance & Regulatory
Compliance & Regulatory Reviewer
Review model output against regulatory and compliance standards, and flag the reasoning that would not survive a real audit. The widest entry point of the four — generalist legal backgrounds are in scope.
$60–$80 / houradvertised
- Compliance, regulatory, or generalist legal experience
- Careful reader — the work is judgement, not volume
How It Works
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Explore Opportunities
Browse the available paid legal and AI projects and find the ones your background fits.
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Apply Through Mercor
Review the opportunity and complete your Mercor application. Applications are assessed on expertise.
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Get Matched
If selected, Mercor guides you through onboarding and the project work available to you.
Who Are These Opportunities For?
Legal training is the qualification. An AI or engineering background is not required — the work needs people who can reason through law, not people who can build models.
Your legal knowledge may be worth more than you think.
Some AI and expert projects pay legal professionals $100+/hour. What you are paid depends on the project and your background — but the ceiling is higher than most legal side work.
New to this kind of work? Read what legal AI work actually involves.