Cite-Checking Specialist (Law Journal/Bluebook)

Aqusag, LLC.

Experience: Law students (2L/3L, ideally law review or journal) or litigation paralegal and Strong Bluebook and cite-checking experience Job Type: Full-time (Contractual / Freelancing) Location: Remote (Candidates from US only) Required Skills: Catching Citation Errors, Cite-Checking Experience, Handling Unclear Rules, Staying Consistent Through Repetitive Work, Bluebook & Cite-Checking, Law, Law Journal Editing

Job Summary

We are 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Current law student (2L, 3L) or recent JD graduate.
• Law review or law journal experience, ideally including a site-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.