Senior Litigation Attorney (US)
micro1 is engaging Senior Litigation Attorneys to contribute expertise to a frontier AI evaluation project involving complex commercial disputes.
Hiring companyMicro1
About the role
In this role, you'll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input. No prior experience in AI is required — your domain knowledge is what matters.
Start Timeline & Availability
We typically fill roles within 48 hours and are looking for experts ready to jump in right away. If selected, we expect you to start your first tasks within 24–48 hours of completing onboarding.
Responsibilities
- Seed realistic multi-turn litigation scenarios by drafting the facts, parties, legal issues, procedural posture, and initiating documents for each case.
- Direct junior legal contributors in producing briefs, motions, discovery strategy documents, and demand letters — ensuring high-quality, well-reasoned submissions.
- Conduct holistic quality control for each turn in the dispute simulation, reviewing and approving both junior and peer-level legal work as a neutral evaluator.
- Develop and refine rubrics that define success criteria at each litigation stage, translating practical expertise into clear evaluation benchmarks for the AI pipeline.
- Identify and surface ambiguities, edge cases, and procedural complexities that challenge AI performance, providing actionable feedback to the project team.
- Maintain alignment with team leads and legal peers as project specifications and scenario requirements evolve.
- Operate solely from public or synthetic materials, ensuring no use of client-confidential information throughout the engagement.
Preferred skills
- Licensed US attorney with active or lapsed bar admission in at least one US jurisdiction.
- 10+ years of hands-on US litigation experience, including courtroom advocacy, discovery, motion practice, and case team leadership.
- Fluency in the full litigation lifecycle — pleadings, discovery, motions, hearings, and resolution strategies.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with mastery of formal legal drafting and adversarial reasoning.
- Proven ability to review and direct junior legal work to a high professional standard without needing to redraft personally.
- Adaptability to a fast-evolving, remote-first project environment and collaborative calibration with diverse legal experts.
Experience and education
- Deep expertise in at least one area: commercial contract disputes, shareholder/LLC disputes, or commercial real estate litigation; experience across multiple domains is a plus.
Schedule details
We typically fill roles within 48 hours and are looking for experts ready to jump in right away. If selected, we expect you to start your first tasks within 24–48 hours of completing onboarding.
Eligibility
Work arrangement: Fully remote
Eligible countries: United States
Compensation details
$100 per hour.
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