Senior Counsel - Legal Domain Expert

Weekday AI

14h • $85 - $120 • Hybrid

About The Position

This role is for one of our clients. We are seeking an experienced counsel-level legal professional to work with a leading AI research organization’s research and program management teams to improve how advanced AI systems understand, reason about, and perform real-world legal work. Your legal expertise will play a central role in defining what high-quality legal reasoning looks like. You will review legal knowledge-work tasks and AI-generated outputs, develop detailed instructions and benchmark solutions, and help establish evaluation standards that accurately reflect professional legal practice. This is a full-time role requiring 40 hours per week for an initial 6-month engagement. The position follows a hybrid working model in the Bay Area, California, with regular on-site collaboration required.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school; education from a highly regarded institution is preferred.
• 8–15 years of substantive post-qualification legal experience within an established law firm, corporate legal department, regulatory organization, court, or comparable institution.
• Currently operating at or having reached Counsel, Senior Associate, Senior In-House Counsel, or Assistant General Counsel level, with meaningful ownership of legal matters.
• Deep expertise in at least one substantive practice area, such as: Corporate & Transactional Law, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Regulatory & Compliance, Intellectual Property, Employment & Labor Law, Tax Law.
• Admission to at least one U.S. state bar and in good standing.
• Practical familiarity with large language models and AI-assisted workflows, with the ability to distinguish genuinely sound legal reasoning from plausible but incorrect analysis.
• Exceptional written communication skills and the ability to articulate complex legal judgments clearly and systematically.
• Ability to commit reliably to 40 hours per week for an initial six-month engagement.
• Currently based in the Bay Area, California, with the ability to work on-site multiple days per week as required. Candidates outside the Bay Area must be willing to relocate at their own expense; relocation assistance is not provided.

Nice To Haves

• Education from a highly regarded institution is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate legal tasks and AI-generated responses for accuracy, completeness, sound reasoning, and practical applicability.
• Create detailed task specifications, develop high-quality reference solutions, and design legal scenarios that reflect authentic professional workflows.
• Develop and refine legal evaluation criteria, scoring guidelines, and benchmarks used to measure AI performance.
• Apply specialized knowledge to identify missing legal considerations, flawed reasoning, unsupported conclusions, and responses that may appear credible but fail professional scrutiny.
• Work closely with researchers, program managers, engineers, and other legal specialists to improve evaluation methodologies.
• Translate professional legal judgment into clear, consistent, and teachable evaluation standards.
• Provide precise, structured feedback explaining why a legal response or workflow meets or falls short of professional expectations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree