Litigation 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 litigators from AmLaw 100 firms and Fortune 500 in-house litigation / dispute-resolution groups 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 commercial, securities, IP, employment, or regulatory-enforcement litigation to build a high-fidelity environment that mirrors the tools, files, and case-management workflows of sophisticated litigation practice — and then author tasks grounded in the matters you actually handle today.

Key Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use day-to-day — the pleadings, motions, deposition summaries, discovery requests, exhibit lists, case chronologies, expert reports, and email threads that reflect how you actually organize your work — with some representation of the platforms that support it (e.g., Relativity / Nuix Discover, Westlaw / LexisNexis, Clio / MyCase)
• Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows — structured around end-to-end matters (pre-litigation, pleadings, discovery, motions, trial / settlement, post-judgment) — that require navigating multiple apps, files, and stakeholders in a way that meaningfully challenges frontier AI agents
• Collaborate with other litigation 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 litigation 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

• JD and active bar admission
• 3+ years of full-time litigation experience at an AmLaw 100 firm or Fortune 500 in-house litigation group
• Background in one or more areas such as:
  • Commercial / complex-commercial litigation
  • Securities, consumer-class, or antitrust litigation
  • IP litigation (patent, trademark, trade-secret)
  • Employment / labor or discrimination litigation
  • White-collar defense or regulatory enforcement (SEC, DOJ, CFTC, FTC)
• Day-to-day use of Relativity (RelativityOne) / Nuix Discover, Westlaw / LexisNexis, and Clio / MyCase
• Strong analytical thinking and writing — able to translate litigation workflows into structured task specs

Compensation Note

• Task Completion Pay: Competitive and based on task quality (~$1,250 – $1,750 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.