Legal Domain Expert
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MercorLegal research
Source API remote eligibility restrictions: United KingdomContractJunior
Salary76 - 120 USD per hour
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Job Details
- Experience
- 2+ years of professional legal-research experience
Requirements
- Have 2+ years of professional legal-research experience.
- Use Lexis+ weekly or more for substantive legal research in a current or recent role.
- Use Shepard’s or KeyCite reflexively.
- Be able to spot a bad citation, misstated holding, or superseded statute on sight.
- Have a J.D. and bar admission, an MLIS/law librarian background, or equivalent research-heavy experience.
Responsibilities
- Confirm that each cited case, statute, and regulation remains good law for the cited point.
- Identify negative Shepard’s treatment.
- Identify non-existent or misdescribed cases.
- Verify quotations, holdings, and pinpoint citations.
- Check that controlling authority is found and on-point cases are not missed.
- Maintain distinct 50-state and multi-jurisdiction splits.
- Verify the version of the law in force on the operative date.
- Distinguish binding from persuasive authority and verify before finalizing.
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