Legal Expert (Civil Rights Law)

What You'll Do6

• Create, design, and review annotation tasks involving discrimination, constitutional rights, disability access, police misconduct, and complex civil rights litigation.
• Check data sets and annotation guidelines for accuracy, clarity, and legal relevance.
• Write clear explanations and rationales for legal concepts and decisions in context-rich scenarios.
• Review annotation work from other legal professionals and contributors, providing detailed feedback and quality assurance.
• Work with project managers, platform specialists, and legal experts to refine annotation workflows and protocols.
• Improve project documentation and contribute best practices for civil rights legal data annotation.

Requirements3

• Bring expertise in civil rights law and the legal matters covered by the project.
• Be able to analyze civil rights legal issues and explain legal concepts and decision-making in writing.
• Be prepared to assess the accuracy, clarity, and legal relevance of annotation materials.

Preferred Qualifications6

• Juris Doctor degree and active bar admission in the United States.
• Experience as a civil rights attorney, civil rights litigation attorney, or civil liberties attorney, with substantial subject matter expertise.
• Strong written and verbal communication, with precision in legal reasoning.
• Experience interpreting nuanced issues involving civil rights, constitutional law, discrimination, and police practices.
• Familiarity with legal data annotation, legal technology, or digital knowledge management.
• Experience with collaborative remote assignments in multidisciplinary legal or research settings, and a detail-oriented approach to accurate work.

Who Should Apply

Civil rights attorneys and other legal professionals with substantial knowledge of civil rights matters may be a fit. Clear legal writing and the ability to assess nuanced issues are central; prior AI experience is not needed.

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