Corporate Attorney (US Only, $100–180/hr)

What you'll do

This is a transactional brief. You review and annotate the documents a corporate associate lives in: merger agreements, stock purchase agreements, operating agreements, bylaws and financing documents. You draft realistic corporate scenarios, deal hypotheticals and research memos across M&A, governance, securities and entity structuring.

On the review side, you evaluate AI-generated corporate content for accuracy, clarity and consistency with US corporate law and give specific corrections. The ad asks you to flag ambiguity, risk and drafting issues "the way you would in live deal work", which is a fair description: issue-spotting on a markup, with the rationale written out. You also help shape the guidelines and quality standards for the corporate training data, and turn complex principles into structured formats a model can learn from.

Who fits

• A JD from an accredited US law school
• An active licence in good standing in at least one US jurisdiction
• 3 to 10+ years of substantive corporate work: M&A, securities, governance, commercial contracts or private financings
• Hands-on drafting and negotiation of purchase agreements, financing documents and governance instruments
• A US-based practitioner, whether at a firm, in-house or independent
• Preferred extras: buy-side and sell-side M&A, in-house or GC experience at a US company, a clerkship or journal editing, and training junior attorneys

No prior AI experience is required.

What it pays

$100–180/hour, micro1's published band. micro1 has had two other Corporate Attorney postings, and this one sits between them. An earlier Corporate Attorney (US Only) posting, now closed, paid $90–150/hour for a generalist brief spanning corporate, litigation, bankruptcy and compliance. Corporate Attorney pays $140–350/hour, accepts non-US bar admission, and asks for M&A, private equity or capital markets depth. This posting is US-only like the first but stays within transactional corporate work, closer in subject to the second. No hours or project length are published.

Worth knowing

Good:

• A focused transactional scope, so deal lawyers are not asked to cover litigation or bankruptcy
• In-house and GC experience is explicitly valued, not only firm experience
• 50 openings with a high-demand badge
• No AI background needed

Less good:

• US only
• Three overlapping Corporate Attorney postings at different bands, with no guidance on which applicant goes where
• No hours, project duration or screening process published
• Contractor engagement: no benefits, your own tax to manage

About this listing

Posted by micro1 on its own jobs portal and read on 30 September 2026, a day after it went up, marked new and high demand. The $100–180/hour band, the 50 openings, the "Remote (US Only)" location and the qualifications above are micro1's published text. The ad's title is "Corporate Attorney"; we added the location and pay band to tell it apart from micro1's other two postings under that name. Payment schedule and method are not published on the listing. See micro1.