Legal Subject Matter Expert, United Kingdom

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UK Legal SME applying commercial and regulatory expertise to annotate legal data and evaluate AI responses. Supporting accurate legal reasoning in TransPerfect’s AI systems.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide legal expertise on UK commercial, regulatory, tribunal, and administrative law matters
  • Analyze commercial contracts, contractual disputes, obligations, remedies, and risk provisions
  • Research UK statutes, regulations, case law, tribunal decisions, and regulatory guidance
  • Review matters involving financial services regulation and regulatory authorities
  • Annotate and validate legal datasets and AI-generated legal responses
  • Verify legal citations and statutory references
  • Draft and evaluate legal memoranda, contract clauses, summaries, and legal reasoning tasks
  • Identify AI hallucinations, unsupported conclusions, or jurisdictionally incorrect answers
  • Support prompt engineering and legal evaluation frameworks for AI systems

Requirements:

  • Solicitor, Barrister, JD/LL.M. equivalent graduate, Senior Legal Researcher, or experienced Paralegal
  • Minimum 3+ years of relevant UK legal experience
  • Experience in commercial contracts, financial regulation, administrative law, or tribunal proceedings
  • Strong knowledge of UK legal research methodologies
  • Excellent legal reasoning, statutory analysis, citation verification, and drafting skills
  • Excellent written English
  • Familiarity with Westlaw UK, LexisNexis, Practical Law, or similar platforms preferred
  • Familiarity with Generative AI and prompt engineering is a plus

Benefits:

  • Flexible hours, based on the applicant's availability
  • Potential project extension beyond the initial 3-month duration