Legal Counsel – Sanctions, Structured Finance, Life Sciences

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

📋 Description

• Analyze realistic legal issues and relevant source documents within the reviewer’s designated practice area.

• Evaluate legal analyses for accuracy, completeness, and professional standards.

• Detect significant errors, omissions, unsupported conclusions, or deficiencies in legal reasoning.

• Assess sanctions and export-control limitations, licensing considerations, and compliance ramifications where appropriate.

• Review structured finance and securitization transactions, associated documentation, legal analysis, and risk distribution as applicable.

• Examine life sciences and pharmaceutical regulatory issues when relevant.

• Interpret synthetic legal matters and foundational documents.

• Review six blinded legal deliverables identified as A–F.

• Conduct five comparative assessments against a standard output.

• Choose the superior responses based on substantive legal quality.

• Offer concise, specific written justifications for preference selections.

• Adhere consistently to project guidelines and evaluation standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Licensed attorney with extensive, up-to-date professional experience in at least one of the following areas: sanctions and export controls; structured finance and securitization; life sciences and pharmaceutical regulatory law.

• Strong expert legal analysis and professional judgment.

• Capacity to assess legal work comprehensively for accuracy, completeness, judgment, and practical applicability.

• Proficient written English.

• Comfortable evaluating competing legal methodologies and articulating preference rationales.

• Ability to operate independently following detailed written instructions and meeting deadlines.

• External AI tools must not be utilized on project materials.

• Work must be completed without referencing confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, institution, or other third party.

🏝️ Benefits

• Part-time independent contractor position.

• Fully remote working environment.

• Compensation: $140–$150/hour.

• Approximately 24–30 hours of work throughout the engagement.

• Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded based on project requirements and performance.

• NDA and confidentiality obligations apply.

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