Legal Case Study Author (AI Training)

What you'll do

Each assignment is one case study: a decision that a General Counsel, DPO, Head of Compliance or executive committee has to make under EU rules, written up as a case brief with a data room behind it. Sovrano uses these cases as the human reference that AI models are measured against, so each one has to stand on its own. The frameworks in scope are GDPR, the EU AI Act, DORA, MiCA, NIS2, MiFID II and adjacent regimes.

Sovrano's bar for a good case is specific. The decision at the centre must be real, in scope and consequential; an overview of a topic does not count. Every number has to reconcile to a document in the data room, which should hold 10 to 20 documents and one index. During assessment you walk a reviewer through a number and an assumption of their choosing on a short live call. Everything must be your own work, with no AI used anywhere in the case, and Sovrano verifies file metadata.

Who fits

• A law degree (LLB, LLM, JD or equivalent), or a compliance-focused degree plus legal or regulatory work experience
• At least 2 years of non-academic legal, regulatory, compliance or data protection work
• Working command of at least two of GDPR, the EU AI Act, DORA, MiCA, NIS2 and MiFID II
• Comfort citing regulation at article level
• Professional English
• Availability for a short live walkthrough call during assessment

In-house counsel, DPOs and compliance officers who have written board papers have a head start, because the deliverable is a decision with its evidence attached (closer to a committee paper than to a legal opinion). If you have assembled the documents behind a DPIA or a DORA incident report, you already know what a slim, consistent data room looks like.

What it pays

$500 flat per approved case study (brief plus data room), paid on approval rather than on submission. If a case needs work you get one substantive revision cycle with specific feedback. After your first approval, further cases are available by mutual agreement at the same rate. The ad gives no time estimate per case, so your effective hourly rate depends on how quickly you can build a data room that reconciles; a case that is never approved earns nothing.

Worth knowing

Good:

• Paid work exists now, unlike Sovrano's "Expert" waitlist listings, which attach no project
• A flat $500 per case, one revision cycle and the same rate for later cases
• You set your own schedule against an agreed submission date
• Sovrano says approved authors are among the first experts it contacts for future projects

Less good:

• Pay depends on approval, and a rejected case pays nothing
• The no-AI rule is checked through file metadata, so drafting tools you may use daily are off limits
• Open only to residents of EU member states
• No guidance on how long a case should take

About this listing

Sovrano posted this role on 27 August 2026, and it was still accepting applications in Sovrano's signed-in job list on 1 November 2026. Contract type, pay and requirements are the ad's own. See Sovrano AI.

How to get hired

• Applying takes a CV or LinkedIn profile plus 2 to 3 sentences on the first decision scenario you would author: the company, the decision, and why you know the ground. Shortlisted applicants get the case authoring guidelines, a template and a short intro call; the live walkthrough comes during assessment.
• Make those sentences do the selling. Name a type of company (a mid-sized payment institution, say), one decision with a deadline, and the two frameworks it turns on, cited at article level.
• On your CV, list the frameworks you work with first, with the article-level work behind each, since two of the six is the minimum.
• Rehearse the walkthrough: pick a figure from a past matter and explain out loud where it came from and which assumption it rests on.
• Our interview prep page has general screening advice.