Bluebook Citation Specialist (Law Students & Recent JDs)

Role overview

Role Type: Contractor Location: Remote Opportunity Snapshot Pay: $50–80/hour You’ll need: Current or recent law school enrollment, hands-on Bluebook experience, and law journal or law review editing experience Your tasks: Review citation-checking rubrics and build sample cite-checking tasks Job Description micro1 is engaging law students and recent law graduates with law journal experience to support a legal citation project. If you’ve spent time cite-checking for a law review or journal, this is that skill applied to a new context. No prior AI experience is required — your Bluebook fluency and editorial judgment are what matter. Scope of Work • Review existing Bluebook and pincite grading rubrics, and flag rules that are unclear, incomplete, or would be applied inconsistently by different editors. • Identify edge cases the rubrics don’t currently cover and recommend how they should be handled. • Create sample cite-checking tasks: source material paired with citations containing realistic errors, along with the correct answer and an explanation of the rule involved. • Build tasks across a range of citation types and difficulty levels, from straightforward formatting errors to subtle pincite and source-support problems. • Apply Bluebook rules consistently across all submissions. • Flag ambiguous cases to project coordinators instead of resolving them silently. • Deliver assigned work on schedule and at the required quality level.

Requirements & qualifications

• Current law student (2L, 3L) or recent JD graduate. • Law review or law journal experience, ideally including a cite-checking or source-collection role. • Strong working knowledge of The Bluebook, including pincites, short forms, signals, and parentheticals. • Able to explain why a citation is wrong, not just that it is — the reasoning matters as much as the correction. • Careful and consistent across long sessions of detailed review work. • Comfortable working independently and meeting deadlines without close supervision. • Experience as a journal editor, articles editor, or executive editor is a plus. How the selection process works • Apply and complete the screening questions • Complete the AI interview— this is how we showcase your skills to the client • Profile review by the hiring team • Onboarding — our Talent Ops team will get you set up

Skills

• Catching Citation Errors
• Cite-Checking Experience
• Handling Unclear Rules
• Bluebook & Cite-Checking
• Law
• Law Journal Editing
• Attention to detail