Trellis is hiring a
ML Legal Research Analyst

Summary

The job is for a Legal Research Attorney at Trellis Law, a legal tech startup that provides legal intelligence and analytics. The role involves reviewing, analyzing, and classifying trial court documents to improve AI and machine learning. The company offers flexible remote work culture, health, dental, and vision insurance coverage, and a 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer matching.

Requirements

• JD degree from accredited law school
• Bar: any U.S. jurisdiction preferred
• Civil litigation experience, including and/or familiarity with navigating state trial court websites, dockets, and civil litigation procedures, filings, and orders
• Effective communicator, ability to work collaboratively
• Diligence, keen attention to detail; being efficient while maintaining quality
• Must take pride in your work-product and hold yourself accountable
• Have a positive attitude (a real desire to join our team and help it thrive)
• Ability to work remotely with own computer, monitor, and internet connection

Responsibilities

• Reviewing, analyzing and classifying trial court documents and docket entries (including legal briefs and court orders/rulings) to help improve our AI and machine learning
• Utilizing custom web-based software to review dockets, orders, and filed docs, and work with a team of other lawyers identifying/effectively communicating legal nuance and product feedback to the machine learning team
• Working directly with the legal team and Machine Learning team to help engineers and data scientists understand legal documents, court dockets, and continuously work as a team to help improve legal classification algorithms

Benefits

• Base Salary: Depends on experience
• Flexible remote-first work culture (with office space in Los Angeles)
• We cover 100% of health, dental, and vision insurance for you (and 100% for spouses and dependents)
• We have a 401(k) retirement savings plan with up to 3% employer matching!