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

- Transparent, 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

📌 Litigation Associate (Sydney)
🏢 Important Business
📍 Sydney