Legal Expert (Corporate & M&A)

Role Title: Legal Expert (Corporate & M&A)

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote micro1 is engaging Legal Experts (Corporate & M&A) to contribute expertise to a customer’s project focused on legal data annotation within M&A, corporate governance, commercial contracts, and securities regulation. In this role, you'll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input. No prior experience in AI is required — your domain knowledge is what matters. This is a unique opportunity for US-based corporate and M&A lawyers to create, review, and refine tasks directly related to deal structuring, due diligence, governance, contracts, and securities law compliance.

Scope of Work

• Develop, review, and enhance legal data annotation tasks covering M&A transaction structuring, corporate governance, due diligence, contracts, and securities law.

• Analyze and draft complex commercial contract scenarios to ensure accuracy in annotation and data labeling.

• Evaluate and synthesize corporate documentation to create reliable training datasets for AI models.

• Provide detailed written feedback on legal tasks, ensuring clarity, compliance, and instructional accuracy.

• Collaborate with project stakeholders to resolve ambiguities in legal concepts and annotate accordingly.

• Generate best-practice guidelines and quality assurance checks for legal data annotation workflows.

• Stay abreast of US corporate and M&A legal developments, integrating relevant insights into annotation guidance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active license to practice law in the United States, with a focus on corporate law and M&A transactions.

• 5+ years’ experience advising on or structuring M&A transactions, corporate due diligence, or commercial contracts.

• Deep knowledge of US securities law, compliance frameworks, and governance requirements.

• Demonstrated skill in drafting and reviewing a wide variety of corporate and transactional documents.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities, including clear annotation and documentation skills.

• Prior involvement in legal technology, legal research, or data-driven legal projects is a plus.

• Detail-oriented, analytical mindset with a commitment to accuracy and best practices in legal data work.

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