Tax Attorney — Verify Automated Legal Research Extraction (5 Opinions, ~45 min)

I need an experienced tax attorney to verify the output on 5 ninth circuit tax opinions. This is quality assurance work, not legal advice.

What you'll do:

Read 5 federal appellate tax opinion PDFs (9th Circuit, 2005–2022)

Review a prepared Word document with the system's findings for each opinion

For each finding, mark it as Correct, Wrong, or Missing

Answer specific flagged questions (e.g., "Does this opinion reverse the Tax Court? What exact language does it use?")

Write short corrections where the system got something wrong

The 5 opinions cover:

A Tax Court reversal on penalty approval (§6751)

A Foreign Sales Corporation / Roth IRA case with economic substance doctrine

An estate tax marital deduction case (§2056) — older 2005 PDF

A constitutional challenge to the Mandatory Repatriation Tax (§965) — this is a false positive test

A partnership limitations period case with equitable estoppel

What I'm looking for:

JD with tax law experience (tax LLM preferred but not required)

Comfortable reading federal appellate opinions

Familiar with IRC section citations, Tax Court opinion types, and common tax doctrines (economic substance, substance over form, assignment of income)

Attention to detail — your corrections become the permanent ground truth the system is tested against

You do NOT need to:

Write a memo or legal analysis

Understand the software or code

Do any research beyond reading the 5 attached PDFs

Deliverable: The completed Word review sheet with your corrections. Estimated 30–45 minutes of work.

Attachments provided upon hire:

5 opinion PDFs

Pre-filled review sheet (Word doc) with specific questions per opinion

I'm hiring two reviewers independently for cross-validation. If your work is strong, there will be ongoing review work as the system expands to other circuits.