Regulatory Law Expert

What you'll do

Regulatory work is the variant of Mercor's senior-lawyer evaluation series with the widest subject spread. Rather than one practice area, the ad lists five regulated sectors: financial services, healthcare and FDA, antitrust and competition, data privacy and cybersecurity, and environmental and energy regulation. Your scenarios test whether an AI system can handle a compliance program build, an agency investigation or enforcement action, or a rulemaking and comment process the way senior regulatory counsel would.

For each world you write:

• The scenario itself, set in a regulated company or in front of an agency
• Reference work: compliance memoranda, regulatory filings and enforcement response documents
• A rubric that tells real regulatory judgment apart from the kind of answer a well-read law student could give

Scenarios can involve regulatory tracking platforms, compliance management systems and agency filing systems. Worlds target one of two tracks:

• US: the Administrative Procedure Act plus agency-specific statutes and rules (SEC, FDA, FTC among them)
• International: EU regulations and directives, and UK regulatory frameworks

Who fits

• 5+ years as a regulatory attorney or compliance counsel at a major law firm, regulated company or government agency; the ad cites Covington & Burling, Sidley Austin and WilmerHale, or in-house regulatory counsel at a bank, pharma or tech company
• Direct ownership of compliance programs, agency interactions or enforcement matters
• A working grasp of administrative process and how agency rulemaking really proceeds

A JD with bar admission or an international equivalent is strongly preferred; prior rubric, training or compliance documentation authorship helps. Former agency staff are explicitly in scope, which helps if you have moved from government into private practice.

What it pays

$90–100 per hour, matching the rest of the series. The ad gives no weekly hours or duration. Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise; H-1B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported.

Worth knowing

Good:

• Broad sector list, so specialists in less common regimes (energy, privacy) have a place
• Government agency experience counts alongside firm and in-house work
• International track for EU and UK regulatory lawyers; no residence requirement stated

Less good:

• No hires figure was shown on this listing, so its activity level is unclear
• Rate sits below private-practice regulatory billing
• No hours or duration published; projects can be extended, shortened or ended early
• Independent contractor

About this listing

Posted by Mercor as a remote hourly contract, read on 24 September 2026. Pay, tracks and qualifications are the ad's own. Related: Corporate Law Expert and Public Interest Law. See Mercor.