An $11 billion valuation on roughly $190 million of revenue is a bet on legal AI getting substantially better. Someone has to make it better.
Key takeaways
- Harvey raised $200 million in March 2026 at an $11 billion valuation, co-led by existing investors GIC and Sequoia, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Conviction Partners,.
- 100 live listings in this category publish a rate, at a median top-of-range of $135 an hour and a ceiling of $400.
- The work is remote contract work, asynchronous, with no set hours and no guaranteed volume.
- Applications screen on a short skills assessment rather than a resume or interview.
What was reported
The finding
Harvey raised $200 million in March 2026 at an $11 billion valuation, co-led by existing investors GIC and Sequoia, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Conviction Partners, Elad Gil, Evantic and Kleiner Perkins. Reporting puts the company at roughly $190 million ARR, up from an $8 billion valuation three months earlier, with more than 100,000 lawyers and a majority of the AmLaw 100 on the platform. Funds are earmarked for expanding AI agents and growing legal engineering teams embedded with customers.
Harvey went from an $8 billion valuation to $11 billion in three months, with more than 100,000 lawyers and most of the AmLaw 100 using it. The stated use of funds includes growing legal engineering teams embedded with customers, which is a specific kind of hiring: people who understand law well enough to tell engineers what correct looks like.
What the listings pay
That demand shows up across the market, not just at one company. Across 100 live legal listings on our board that publish a rate, the median top-of-range is $135 an hour, reaching $400.
| # | Role | Advertised rate | Platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BigLaw lawyers | $140 to $400 an hour | micro1 |
| 2 | Intellectual Property Counsel | $100 to $200 an hour | micro1 |
| 3 | Lawyer | $80 to $180 an hour | micro1 |
| 4 | Pro Bono Counsel (Access to Justice Expert) | $170 to $170 an hour | Mercor |
| 5 | Corporate/M&A Lawyer (France) | $150 to $160 an hour | Mercor |
| 6 | Legal / Commercial Expert | $80 to $160 an hour | Mercor |
| 7 | Legal Expert: Tier 1 Specialist (Project Donna) | $150 to $150 an hour | Mercor |
| 8 | In-House Counsel (Germany) | $140 to $150 an hour | Mercor |
| 9 | Litigation Attorney (Commercial Real Estate) | $100 to $150 an hour | micro1 |
| 10 | Bankruptcy Attorney | $90 to $150 an hour | micro1 |
Source: 100 live listings on this board that publish a rate, read directly from each posting on 2026-09-06. Listings without a published rate are excluded rather than estimated.
How this compares across the board
A rate only means something next to the alternatives. This is every category we track with at least five listings publishing a rate, ranked by median top-of-range, so you can see where this work sits rather than taking a single number on trust.
| Category | Listings | Median low | Median top | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legal | 95 | $100 | $140 | $400 |
| Medical | 68 | $77 | $120 | $400 |
| Consulting | 45 | $80 | $120 | $280 |
| Finance | 94 | $80 | $110 | $280 |
| Engineering | 114 | $70 | $100 | $300 |
| Research/PhD | 132 | $70 | $90 | $280 |
| Writing | 36 | $40 | $80 | $280 |
| Bilingual | 78 | $44 | $52 | $120 |
| Annotation | 25 | $12 | $24 | $120 |
Same source and date as above. Categories are matched on listing title, so a role can appear in more than one.
What it means for you
Worth being clear-eyed about the tension. The same tools being trained here are the ones compressing junior legal work. Attorneys taking this work are generally doing it with that understood rather than in spite of it. See legal domain expert roles.
Who should apply
Two checks before you spend time on an application. Confirm the role accepts applicants from your country with the eligibility checker, since a meaningful share of listings carry location requirements. Then run the advertised rate through the take-home calculator, because this is contract work and the headline figure is before self-employment tax.
Applications complete on the hiring platform and usually take a few minutes, with a short skills assessment in place of an interview. Fill in every credential, language and professional background field on your profile. Those are what route you to the better paid listings, and most applicants leave them blank.
Frequently asked questions
What does legal domain expert work involve?
Evaluating and correcting how a model reasons about contracts, statutes, procedure and liability, and telling engineers precisely where the reasoning fails.
What does it pay?
Across 100 live legal listings publishing a rate, the median top-of-range is $135 an hour, reaching $400.
Is legal AI actually being adopted?
Reporting puts more than 100,000 lawyers and a majority of the AmLaw 100 on Harvey alone, so adoption at large firms is well past pilot stage.
Does training these tools reduce legal jobs?
It is a fair concern and worth weighing. The tools do compress some junior work. Most attorneys taking this work do so understanding that trade-off.
Do I need to be at a large firm?
No. Listings ask for specific expertise rather than a particular employer, and in-house and boutique backgrounds appear throughout.
Sources
See every live role
The full board updates several times a week, with the advertised rate on each listing and closed roles removed.