Intellectual Property Counsel

$100–200/hrrate as listed

Review and redline technology contracts — MSAs, NDAs, DPAs — inside evaluation workflows that train and grade frontier AI models on legal judgment. Part-time contract work through micro1, fully remote, with observed rates of $100–200/hr depending on experience and task type.

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The work

Most of your time goes to two activities. The first is producing expert work product: running simulated negotiations, redlining draft agreements, and writing the reasoning behind each edit — why a limitation-of-liability carve-out matters, what an indemnity is actually allocating, where a DPA fails to track the underlying processing terms. The second is adjudication: reading model outputs against contract scenarios and deciding whether the AI spotted the real risk, invented one, or missed the clause that would have mattered to a client.

You will also be asked to build the rubric, not just apply it. Research teams need grading criteria that a second reviewer would apply the same way — objective, defensible, and specific enough to distinguish a merely fluent redline from a commercially sound one. Expect back-and-forth with product and research staff on guidelines, edge cases, and disagreements between reviewers.

What the screen measures

micro1's process is AI-led and follow-up heavy. It is calibrated less on where you worked than on whether your reasoning holds up when pressed:

Verifiable credentials — J.D. from an ABA-accredited school, active bar admission in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, and three-plus years of counsel-level tech transactions work.
Deal-level specificity — which agreements you negotiated, which positions you held or gave up, and what the commercial reason was.
Written precision — your feedback becomes training signal, so vague or hedged critique is a failure mode.
Evaluation judgment — can you separate a wrong answer from a stylistically different but acceptable one.

Logistics

Contractor engagement, remote, asynchronous. Volume is typically part-time and variable — often five to fifteen hours per week, sometimes clustered around a project ramp — and you choose when to work within task deadlines. Occasional synchronous calibration calls with research or annotation leads are common. The $100–200/hr range reflects rates observed on this platform for senior legal reviewers; actual offers depend on project, seniority, and task complexity, and are not guaranteed.

What they look for

Playbooks
Redlining
Contract Drafting
Contract Negotiation

Before you apply

Would you pass this screen?

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Do you hold a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an American Bar Association (ABA)-accredited law school?
J.D. from ABA-accredited law school · required
Are you currently admitted to the bar and in active good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction?
Active U.S. bar admission · required
Do you have a minimum of 3 years of hands-on counsel experience negotiating or drafting technology transactions, including MSAs, NDAs, or Data Processing Addenda (DPAs)?
Technology transaction counsel experience · required
Have you previously worked with or been exposed to legal technology tools, AI-driven legal solutions, or training data initiatives?
Prior legal tech or AI exposure · preferred
Have you worked as a lawyer at a corporate law firm?
Corporate law firm background · preferred

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Included with this listing

Interview prep — 11 questions

Matched to what this platform's screening actually measures. Answer each out loud in 60–90 seconds: claim → concrete example → implication.

What it tests: Whether they have actual hands-on experience negotiating tech MSAs, NDAs, or DPAs, not just general contract knowledge. Whether they can articulate business drivers behind legal positions.
A strong answer: Name a recent deal with a specific contract type (MSA, NDA, DPA), identify what the counterparty wanted, explain what risk you saw, and describe the compromise or principle that guided your position. The answer should show the interplay between business objectives and legal safeguards.
Where people lose it: Describing contract review passively ('I reviewed the agreement'), offering only generic negotiation principles without a concrete transaction, or failing to show what the other side actually wanted and why you resisted or gave ground.