About the Organisation
Founded by Shri V. Lakshmikumaran and Shri V. Sridharan, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan has been a leading law firm in India since 1985. With 14 offices and over 400+ professionals specializing in corporate & commercial laws, dispute resolution, taxation, and intellectual property, LKS is well-known for its high ethical standards, quality work, and transparency in all its business dealings. We hold a very high reputation for successfully arguing many landmark cases from quasi-judicial authorities to the Supreme Court of India. We have 35+ years of experience representing clients’ interests in over 50,000 tax disputes before various forums like appellate bodies, DGFT, Tribunals, High Courts, and over 2000 cases before the Supreme Court of India. Few of our practice areas are: The Tax Division advises companies in all areas of tax, including direct and indirect tax. We offer consulting, advisory, litigation, and compliance services. We handle cases in all areas of taxation – GST, Customs, Income-tax, Special Economic Zones, Foreign Trade Policy, Transfer Pricing, and International Trade.
About the Job Opportunity
We are looking for highly analytical and detail-oriented legal professionals to join our annotation project team. As a Legal Annotator, your primary responsibility will be to read and annotate complex legal texts—such as judicial decisions, statutory provisions, and legal opinions—by tagging key legal elements and relationships according to structured guidelines. Your work will be foundational in training advanced AI tools for legal research, compliance, and analytics. This is a content-focused role suited for candidates with a keen eye for legal language and a deep understanding of how legal information is structured.
Job Responsibilities:
1. Legal Document Annotation:
- Carefully read and analyse judgments, legal provisions, and opinions.
- Identify and tag key legal elements including:
- Case title, citation, court name, date of judgment, etc.
- Legal issues, facts, reasoning, and holding
- Statutes cited, legal principles applied, and precedents
- Annotate relationships between cases (e.g., followed, overruled, distinguished, relied on, etc.) with accuracy.
2. Metadata Structuring and Tagging:
- Enter and verify metadata fields such as case number, court level, jurisdiction, judge names, party names, and outcomes.
- Ensure consistency and standard formatting of metadata across documents to enable structured legal analysis.
3. Legal Taxonomy & Classification:
- Classify each document based on the type of proceeding (e.g., civil, criminal, appeal, writ petition, PIL, etc.).
- Segment legal texts into predefined logical components such as headnotes, procedural history, argument summary and ruling for AI modelling.
4. Adherence to Annotation Protocols:
- Follow comprehensive annotation guidelines and use internal tools or platforms for tagging work.
- Maintain high standards of accuracy, clarity and uniformity across all annotations.
- Escalate ambiguous or complex issues to the project lead or quality reviewer for resolution.
5. Coordination and Feedback Integration:
- Participate in regular training, feedback and update sessions to stay aligned with evolving project standards.
- Incorporate feedback from Quality Control reviewers to improve future annotations.
- Collaborate with the QC and project team to refine tagging practices and raise annotation-related concerns.
6. Confidentiality and Documentation:
- Handle all legal content with utmost confidentiality and data privacy, in accordance with firm protocols.
- Log and maintain records of all completed annotations for audit trails and process tracking.
Eligibility & Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in law (LL.B. or equivalent) from a recognized institution.
- Additional training or coursework in legal research, knowledge management, or legal writing will be an advantage.
- Legal research
- Legal publishing
- Litigation or corporate advisory work
- Legal editing or documentation
- Preferred: Experience with legal knowledge systems, case law databases, or annotation tools.
- Legal Knowledge: Strong command of legal principles, terminology, and procedural law.
- Attention to Detail: Ability to identify nuances in legal texts and tag content with precision.
- Consistency: Skill in applying structured tagging logic uniformly across large volumes of documents.
- Tech Comfort: Familiarity with legal databases and comfort using annotation platforms or digital tools.
- Written Communication: Clear documentation and ability to note reasoning behind tagging choices.
- Time Management: Ability to meet deadlines and maintain annotation speed without compromising accuracy.
- Passion for legal data structuring and technology-driven legal solutions.
- Open to learning new protocols and adapting to AI-based legal workflows.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a deadline-driven, quality-sensitive project environment.
Additional Perks:
Your annotations will serve as the legal foundation upon which cutting-edge AI systems will be trained. By capturing the nuance and logic of court decisions and statutes, you will be directly contributing to the future of how legal information is accessed, understood, and applied.
Contact Details
https://www.linkedin.com/company/lakshmikumaran-and-sridharan
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