We are looking for Public Defenders — Paid Research Study candidates for a project delivered through Mercor.
What you'll do
- Describe your primary responsibilities, tasks, smaller pieces of work, and which tasks need outputs from other tasks. You can also describe different versions of the same task.
- Review a combined task tree and add details.
What you need
- Current or former public defenders with hands-on experience representing indigent clients in the United States.
- Able to describe the work you personally performed and the jurisdiction and period in which you practiced.
- Experience solely as a prosecutor, law student, legal-content annotator, or lawyer without public-defense experience is not sufficient for this study.
- If your work was court-appointed or contract public defense, explain that arrangement so we can review the fit.
- Use your own professional experience, not AI-generated answers. Do not include client names, case numbers, identifying facts, confidential information, or privileged material. We do not need any documents from real cases.
Nice to have
- Prior Mercor project experience is welcome but not required.
Who you work with
Project and contracting process: Mercor. Applications continue on the provider's website.