Role Description
**About the Role**
This is a 3-month contract role where you'll do hands-on legal research, first-pass contract review, and legal operations support for disputes lawyers in Southeast Asia and Commonwealth jurisdictions.
The core principle you'll work within: "no source, no answer." Every claim must resolve to a verified pinpoint citation in a source document. If it can't, the system abstains. This isn't theory. It's what disputes lawyers need when professional liability is on the line.
Your work will inform how Veracia's verification-first platform handles contract language, legal arguments, and evidence chronologies across real litigation matters.
**What You'll Actually Do**
* Conduct legal research for contract disputes and commercial litigation with full source attribution. You'll document the pinpoint citation for every finding, building the patterns that inform our verification stack.
* Review contracts and commercial documents for factual claims, cross-references, and internal contradictions. Flag where language is unsupported or where evidence chains break.
* Support legal operations on pilot engagements with Vietnamese law firm partners: document intake, matter scoping, success metrics, and post-pilot reviews.
* Participate in calls with disputes lawyers and law firm partners to understand workflows, pain points, and what "filing-grade verification" means in practice.
* Build evaluation datasets and gold-standard examples for citation accuracy, abstention precision, and claim-to-source mapping.
* Support our Head of Legal, J.D./LL.M. Law \& Tech and Founding Legal Researcher (VIAC arbitration background) on product feedback, practitioner research, and regulatory positioning.
**Required:**
* Final-year student or recent graduate from Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, Hanoi Law University, or equivalent.
* Strong written and verbal English. You'll write research notes and participate in calls with English-speaking law firms.
* Attention to detail. Citations matter. If a case name is wrong or a page number is off, the entire verification fails.
* Comfort with ambiguity. You'll be working on real disputes work where the answers aren't always in a textbook.
* Interest in how legal reasoning works. You don't need to code, but you should care about how lawyers think about evidence and authority.
**Preferred:**
* Experience in moot court, international law competitions, or legal research competitions (Vis Moot, Philip C. Jessup, etc.).
* Background or interest in international arbitration, disputes, or commercial law.
* Exposure to contract law, evidence, or legal operations.
* Experience at VIAC, SIAC, or similar arbitration institutions.
* Previous internship or coursework in legal tech, AI governance, or regulatory compliance.
**Nice to have:**
* Fluency in Vietnamese and English (our team communicates across both).
* Prior experience with legal research platforms (LawNet, Google Scholar, BAILII, etc.).
* Familiarity with how Vietnamese courts or VIAC handle disputes.
**We're Looking For**
Someone with a legal mind, not an engineering one.
* You've studied law (or are studying law). You understand how disputes lawyers think about authority, evidence, and risk.
* You care about sourcing. Every claim traces to a document. If it doesn't, you flag it.
* You are
**not**
building a generative AI system. We don't care about multi-agent LLMs, RAG pipelines, or agentic frameworks. Those are implementation details we handle.
* You are
**not**
looking for a GenAI or DevOps role. If your background is "full-stack AI development" or "agentic AI frameworks," this isn't your position.
* You've done legal research with discipline. Moot court. Law review. A competition that required you to cite sources correctly.
**Do not apply if:**
* You're looking for a machine learning, software engineering, or "GenAI" opportunity.
* Your background is primarily CS/engineering, not law.
* You've never done legal research or studied law formally.
* You're excited about building systems that generate text using LLMs.
* You're based outside Vietnam (we're hiring Hanoi only; applications from other locations will not be reviewed).
**The Contract**
3-month position. Remote, Hanoi-based. Two cohorts: Summer (May onwards) or Fall (August onwards).
Competitive market compensation for Hanoi market rates.
**To Apply**
1. CV (keep it under 1 page)
2. A brief note (2–3 sentences) on why disputes, arbitration, or legal AI interests you
3. One example of research you've done where you had to trace a claim back to its source (class paper, moot court brief, legal research project, anything that shows citation discipline)
Send to: hello@veracialaw.com with subject line "Legal AI Research Intern — [Your Name]"
We review applications on a rolling basis. Apply early if you're interested.