Temp Market Data Counsel *ON-SITE*

We are seeking a highly motivated (5+ yrs)Market Data Counsel for our client's Technology Legal team as a secondee to support a strategic Digital Rights Management initiative focused on digitizing and extracting data usage rights from contracts with third-party market data vendors through an AI-powered pipeline. The attorney will review approximately 750 contractual documents across 5 priority vendors, comparing AI-extracted rights against source contract language and providing legal guidance on accuracy, completeness, and interpretation. This is a hands-on and fully on-site review role requiring strong contract analysis skills, attention to detail, and familiarity with market data and data licensing terms.

Start Date: August 2026

Duration: 9 Months

Location: Midtown NYC or Newport Jersey City | Fully on-site

Pay Rate: $60-$70+/hr

Responsibilities:

• Review appx 750 contractual documents from 5 priority market data vendors and compare AI-extracted rights against the source contract language.

• Assess the accuracy, completeness, and legal interpretation of extracted terms, with a focus on data usage rights, restrictions, and related licensing provisions.

• Analyze key contract terms including termination, renewal, amendments, dataset descriptions, authorized users, payment terms, reporting obligations, and audit rights.

• Provide legal feedback, corrections, and clarifying comments directly within the firm’s proprietary digital review platform.

• Identify discrepancies, omissions, and ambiguous provisions in contract language and flag them for further review.

• Escalate complex or unclear issues to designated in-house legal subject matter experts and support the overall Human-in-the-Loop review process for the Digital Rights Management initiatives

Qualifications:

• Licensed US-barred attorney with 5+ years of relevant legal experience either in-house or law firm.

• Demonstrated background reviewing commercial contracts, including finance-related agreements and document-intensive matters.

• Knowledge of market data agreements and data licensing concepts, especially rights of use and contractual restrictions.

• Strong ability to interpret nuanced contractual language and apply legal judgment with accuracy and consistency.

• Experience working in document review environments that require careful tracking, annotation, and issue spotting.

• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage a large volume of contracts efficiently.

• Prior exposure to financial services matters or major market data providers is strongly preferred.

Compensation

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