Attorney – Litigation, Legal Advisory

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Review legal analyses to ensure accuracy, thoroughness, and logical coherence.

• Evaluate the application of laws, precedents, and legal principles to specific factual situations.

• Detect unsupported conclusions, flawed legal reasoning, significant omissions, and shortcomings in issue identification.

• Examine civil and criminal litigation cases, case evaluations, litigation tactics, and procedural suggestions.

• Analyze litigation strengths, weaknesses, risks, alternative strategies, and professional defendability.

• Assess legal memoranda, agreements, pleadings, correspondence, contracts, and other professional documents.

• Evaluate drafting clarity, precision, structure, legal effectiveness, contractual obligations, risks, and suggested modifications.

• Review statutory interpretation, judicial precedents, and relevant legal authorities.

• Evaluate client recommendations for responsiveness, overlooked risks, practical considerations, clarity, utility, and credibility.

• Compare different legal responses and analyses.

• Deliver concise, evidence-based written feedback while consistently applying evaluation standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 4 years of pertinent professional legal experience.

• Background as an Attorney, Lawyer, Counsel, General Counsel, Prosecutor, or a closely associated legal practitioner.

• Experience in representing clients in civil and/or criminal matters.

• Significant experience in drafting legal documents or advising on legal transactions.

• Practical knowledge of litigation strategy, statutory interpretation, legal research, and client advisory services.

• Capability to assess legal arguments, application of precedents, and the quality of drafting.

• Strong analytical judgment and meticulous attention to legal details.

• Excellent written communication skills in English.

• Ability to work independently and provide accurate professional feedback.

• Availability of 20+ hours per week.

• Work must be conducted without utilizing any confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, law firm, institution, or third party.

• H1-B and STEM OPT support is not available for this position.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote working arrangement.

• Part-time independent contractor position.

• Flexible availability of 20+ hours per week.

• Immediate commencement of work.

• Initial project duration of approximately 4–6 weeks.

• Opportunity for hourly work following the successful completion and approval of the initial task.

• Possible project extension based on project requirements and performance.