Public Interest Law Expert (Civil / Environmental)

**Role Overview**

our client is partnering with leading AI labs on **Project Atlas**, an initiative to build realistic enterprise environments that frontier AI agents are trained and evaluated in. We're seeking experienced public-interest attorneys from **major legal-aid organizations, public-interest law firms, and government offices** (e.g., Legal Services Corporation grantees, ACLU, NRDC, Earthjustice, Public Counsel, state AG offices, DOJ Civil / ENRD) to recreate the digital workspaces they run every day and design the tasks that genuinely challenge state-of-the-art AI.

You'll bring your expertise in civil-rights, civil-legal-aid, consumer protection, environmental, or impact litigation to build a high-fidelity environment that mirrors the tools, files, and case-management workflows of a serious public-interest practice, and then author tasks grounded in the matters you actually handle today.

**Key Responsibilities**

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use day-to-day, the intake notes, case-summary memos, pleadings, advocacy letters, policy briefs, grant reports, amicus drafts, and email threads that reflect how you actually organize your work, with some representation of the platforms that support it (e.g., Westlaw / LexisNexis, Clio / MyCase, Socrata / ArcGIS Hub)

• Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows that require navigating multiple apps, files, and stakeholders in a way that meaningfully challenges frontier AI agents

• Collaborate with other public-interest attorneys in your field to design the environment, shape task scope, and review each other's scenarios for realism and rigor

• Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for public-interest-law agent benchmarks

• Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking, the work you produce directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems

**Ideal Qualifications**

• JD and active bar admission

• 3+ years of full-time public-interest experience at a **major legal-aid organization, public-interest law firm, state AG / DOJ office, or impact-litigation nonprofit**

• Background in one or more areas such as:

• Civil-rights or civil-legal-aid (housing, family, immigration, public-benefits)

• Environmental law (CAA, CWA, NEPA, CERCLA, environmental-justice)

• Consumer-protection or affirmative enforcement

• Impact litigation or amicus / policy advocacy

• Administrative / rule-making advocacy

• Day-to-day use of Westlaw / LexisNexis, Clio / MyCase, and Socrata / Esri ArcGIS Hub

• Strong analytical thinking and writing, able to translate public-interest workflows into structured task specs

**Compensation Note**

• **Task Completion Pay:** Competitive and based on task quality (~$1,750, $2,150 per completed task, subject to change as the project evolves)

• **Performance Bonus:** Top performers receive a weekly bonus incentive on top of their per task rate!

• **Hourly Opportunity:** Top performers may be invited to transition to an hourly compensation model based on sustained quality and throughput.