What the work actually is

You are producing and judging legal reasoning at BigLaw quality, but for a model rather than a client. A typical assignment might be: draft a memo on a contested question of Delaware fiduciary duty law and show your reasoning steps; review two model-generated answers on a discovery dispute and rank them with written justification; or find the specific point where a plausible-looking model answer misreads a holding, cites a superseded rule, or hallucinates authority. Other tasks look more like drafting — deal documents, opinion letters, motion sections — where the point is to give the model a correct, well-structured example of what an associate at a top firm would actually produce.

The hardest part is usually not the law but the writing-down of judgment. Reviewers are graded on whether their feedback is specific and falsifiable: not "the analysis is weak," but "the response applies the business judgment rule without addressing whether the board was disinterested, which is the threshold question here." Rubric discipline matters as much as expertise.

What the platform screens for

  • Verifiable pedigree. Vault Law 100 firm experience is stated as mandatory. Expect to name firms, practice groups, years, and the kinds of matters you staffed.
  • Depth under follow-up. micro1's screen is AI-led and will push a second and third question on whatever you claim. Broad familiarity collapses quickly; a narrow area you genuinely own holds up.
  • Citation hygiene. Whether you can state authority accurately from memory, flag when you are unsure, and distinguish settled law from a litigation position.
  • Evaluation judgment. Whether you can compare two imperfect answers and explain the ranking, rather than rewriting both.

Logistics

Contractor engagement, fully remote, asynchronous. Volume is project-driven and can arrive in bursts; most contributors treat it as 5–15 hours a week alongside practice, though some projects want more for short stretches. Rates in the $140–400/hr range have been observed on micro1 legal projects and vary with seniority, specialty scarcity, and task type — review work generally sits lower than complex drafting. Confirm rate, minimum weekly hours, and conflicts posture before accepting a project. No prior AI experience is required or expected.