Corporate Law Expert

What you'll do

Mercor wants corporate lawyers to write evaluation tasks that measure whether an AI system can handle real transactional and governance work, pitched at the scale of major M&A deals, capital markets offerings and board-level governance problems.

Each "world" you build sits on one of two jurisdictional tracks, and you can qualify for either or both:

• US track: Delaware General Corporation Law, SEC regulations, the Model Business Corporation Act
• International track: UK Companies Act 2006 and EU company law directives

Within that, the output has three parts: a scenario (a multi-party deal, a regulatory review, a restructuring), reference work product such as legal memoranda, transaction documents and client or regulator-facing narratives, and a rubric that separates genuine deal judgment from bar-exam recall. Scenarios can involve the tools a deal team actually uses: Westlaw and Lexis, virtual data rooms like Intralinks and Datasite, contract lifecycle platforms and document automation.

Who fits

• 5+ years as a corporate attorney or general counsel at a major law firm, investment bank or corporation; the ad names Wachtell, Skadden, Cravath, Latham, Kirkland and Sullivan & Cromwell, or in-house legal at a large public company
• Direct ownership of M&A transactions, governance matters or securities filings, not just support on them
• A working feel for how SEC review, antitrust/HSR (or the international equivalent) and board and shareholder oversight actually play out

A JD with bar admission, or an equivalent such as Solicitor or Qualified Lawyer in England & Wales, is strongly preferred rather than required. Prior rubric writing, training curricula or transaction documentation authorship helps.

What it pays

$90–100 per hour. The ad does not say what moves you within that band, and it gives no weekly hours. Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise; H-1B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported.

Worth knowing

Good:

• Open to UK and EU-qualified lawyers through the international track, with no stated residence requirement
• The work draws on deal instinct rather than rote knowledge, which is the part senior lawyers tend to find interesting
• A tight pay band, so there is little guesswork about the rate

Less good:

• $90–100 is well below what a senior corporate lawyer bills; Mercor's broader Law Experts listing pays $110–150 but asks for 20 hours a week and US residence
• No hours or duration stated; projects can be extended, shortened or ended early
• The firm names in the ad set a high bar, even if they are examples rather than a list
• Independent contractor

About this listing

Posted by Mercor as a remote hourly contract, read on 24 September 2026, with 13 hires shown this month. Pay, the two tracks and the qualifications are the ad's own. Compare Law Experts. See Mercor.