Corporate Law Expert

Role Overview

Mercor is partnering with leading AI labs on Project Atlas — an initiative to build realistic enterprise environments that frontier AI agents are trained and evaluated in. We're seeking experienced corporate attorneys from AmLaw 100 firms and Fortune 500 in-house legal departments to recreate the digital workspaces they run every day and design the tasks that genuinely challenge state-of-the-art AI.

You'll bring your expertise in M&A, capital markets, corporate governance, or commercial transactions to build a high-fidelity environment that mirrors the tools, files, and client-engagement workflows of sophisticated corporate practice — and then author tasks grounded in the matters you actually handle today.

Key Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use day-to-day — the engagement letters, diligence memos, deal drafts, closing checklists, board materials, opinion letters, and email threads that reflect how you actually organize your work — with some representation of the platforms that support it (e.g., Westlaw / LexisNexis, Datasite / Intralinks, Icertis or HotDocs)

• Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows — structured around end-to-end client engagements (origination, diligence, negotiation / drafting, closing, post-closing integration) — that require navigating multiple apps, files, and stakeholders in a way that meaningfully challenges frontier AI agents

• Collaborate with other corporate attorneys in your field to design the environment, shape task scope, and review each other's scenarios for realism and rigor

• Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for corporate-law agent benchmarks

• Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking — the work you produce directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems

Ideal Qualifications

• JD and active bar admission

• 3+ years of full-time corporate experience at an AmLaw 100 firm or Fortune 500 in-house legal department

• Background in one or more areas such as:

  • M&A (strategic and private-equity)

  • Capital markets (public offerings, 34 Act reporting, private placements)

  • Corporate governance and board advisory

  • Commercial / technology transactions

  • Private equity, venture capital, or fund formation

• Day-to-day use of Westlaw / LexisNexis, Datasite Diligence / Intralinks, and Icertis or HotDocs / Contract Express

• Strong analytical thinking and writing — able to translate corporate-law workflows into structured task specs

Compensation Note

• Task Completion Pay: Competitive and based on task quality (~$1,750 – $2,150 per completed task, subject to change as the project evolves)

• Performance Bonus: Top performers receive a weekly bonus incentive on top of their per task rate!

• Hourly Opportunity: Top performers may be invited to transition to an hourly compensation model based on sustained quality and throughput.