Legal & Compliance

Legal Expert — Civil Litigator (Deposition Transcript Review)

Mercor

Verified listing

Contract

United States (remote)Posted Oct 15$120-$140 per hour

Overview

Mercor partners with leading AI labs to create gold-standard legal reasoning training data. This contract role involves reviewing a 250-page civil deposition transcript, authoring reference answers to approximately 100 questions with precise citations, and completing eight litigation tasks based on the same record.

What You’ll Do

Read and review a complete rough deposition transcript of approximately 250 pages
Author reference answers to roughly 100 questions about the deposition record with page and line citations
Complete eight short litigation tasks drawn from the same transcript
Prepare all answers without AI assistance, documenting any AI tool usage for transcript navigation
Maintain consistent judgment and reasoning across the full set of answers and tasks

Requirements

Practicing civil litigator with personal experience taking and defending depositions (50+ preferred)
Practice in commercial, contract, or personal injury litigation
Comfortable working from rough transcripts with precise page and line citations
J.D. degree and valid U.S. law license
U.S. based and eligible to work as independent contractor
Not eligible: H-1B or STEM OPT visa holders

Who Should Apply

This role suits experienced civil litigators who have personally conducted many depositions and are comfortable with meticulous transcript work, precise citation, and owning full projects end-to-end without collaboration. It will frustrate someone who prefers working on novel legal questions or with others to debate judgment calls, or who hasn't spent significant time in actual depositions.

Salary Insight

About Mercor

A marketplace placing specialists into paid remote contract work with AI companies. One profile and one AI interview, reused across every role you apply to.

Remote policy: Fully remote, worldwide, on hourly contractor agreements rather than employment. But payment eligibility is the thing to check before you invest any time, because it is decided by country and there is no way around it. Mercor pays through Stripe Connect in…

How hiring works at Mercor →

Required Skills

Deposition analysisLegal writingCivil litigationTranscript reviewAI training data

Compensation

$120-$140 per hour

Location: United States (remote)
Engagement: Contract
Posted: Oct 15

Opens Mercor’s listing on MyRemoteJobs — we don’t collect applications ourselves.

About Mercor

A marketplace placing specialists into paid remote contract work with AI companies. One profile and one AI interview, reused across every role you apply to.

How hiring works at Mercor →

Will your CV get past the filter?

Most applications are rejected by software before a person ever reads them. Scan your CV using our ATS Checker tool, see exactly what's blocking it, then fix it in the CV Builder and apply knowing it'll get through.

Scan my CV