Litigation Lawyer (Australia)

Job Type: Independent Contractor

Location: Remote — Australia

Compensation: $100–$120/hour (approximately $208,000–$249,600 annualized, based on 40 hours/week)

Eligible Country

Australia

About the Opportunity

We are seeking experienced litigation and disputes lawyers to help evaluate how effectively advanced AI systems answer real-world questions involving Australian law.

You will serve as an expert legal reviewer, comparing responses generated by two AI platforms and assessing their accuracy, legal reasoning, and quality against a standardized evaluation framework.

This is a specialized legal AI evaluation opportunity for practitioners with solid knowledge of Australian litigation and procedural law.

What You'll Do

- Run the same set of legal prompts across two AI platforms.

- Review and compare AI-generated responses side by side.

- Assess the accuracy, relevance, completeness, and legal reasoning of each response.

- Score each response against a standardized rubric.

- Provide concise, specific written feedback supporting each evaluation.

- Apply your professional legal judgment consistently across evaluation tasks.

Requirements

- 2+ years of law-firm or barristers' chambers experience in litigation, disputes, or contentious practice; 3+ years preferred.

- Current in-house lawyers may qualify only if they moved in-house within the past 2 years and previously practiced at a law firm or chambers.

- Qualified to practise law in Australia,



with strong knowledge of Australian litigation and procedural law.

- Native or fluent English, with excellent written communication skills.

- Strong analytical and legal research abilities.

- Ability to distinguish accurate legal reasoning from flawed, incomplete, or unsupported analysis.

- Comfortable working independently against a defined rubric and meeting deadlines.

Project Details

- Initial commitment: Approximately 10 hours, with strong potential for additional work.

- Work arrangement: Fully remote with flexible scheduling.

- Confidentiality: All project work is covered by an NDA.

- Independent contractor engagement.

- Payments are made weekly based on services rendered.

- Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on project requirements and performance.

- H-1B and STEM OPT candidates are not currently supported.

Why Join

- Apply your Australian litigation expertise to the evaluation of advanced legal AI.

- Help assess how AI systems reason about real-world Australian law.

- Contribute specialist legal judgment to improving AI accuracy and reliability.

- Work on projects at the intersection of legal practice and frontier AI.

Ideal Candidate: An Australia-qualified litigation or disputes lawyer with strong law-firm or chambers experience, excellent written English, and the professional judgment to rigorously evaluate AI-generated legal analysis.

Skills

- Law

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