Legal Staff Other in Jacksonville, FL

Law Firm

Jacksonville, FL

Legal Staff Other in Jacksonville, FL

Legal Staff

2-5 yrs required

No

Job Title: Research Analyst (Hybrid)

Job Responsibilities:
- Appropriately scope, research, and respond to legal, corporate, industry, and client-related research and reference requests.
- Follow best practices in research strategy or provided research plans for all queries.
- Evaluate sources and organize information into high-quality work products for firm lawyers, business professionals, or clients.
- Exercise judgment and accountability in prioritizing billable workflow and effectively communicate around deadlines.
- Provide and implement current awareness and litigation alerting as part of the law firm's industry sector and business development initiatives.
- Provide group and individual instruction on research techniques, methodologies, and strategies.
- Train law firm lawyers and business professionals on the functionality and usefulness of information resources, including industry-standard legal and corporate databases.
- Promote research tools, offerings, and services through participation in practice group, section, industry, and team meetings as assigned research liaison.
- Develop and maintain an understanding of the information needs, workflow, and preferences of users and stakeholders to support and improve ease of access to information.
- Complete required knowledge management and record-keeping, including time entry for all billable and lawyer-facing research, metadata entry for all time billed, metadata entry for all research requests, and compilation of all research communication and components in the law firm research intake platform.
- Assess and report on resource or technology needs, as well as collection strengths and weaknesses, through conversations with law firm lawyers and other key stakeholders.
- Attend research training, legal vendor training, knowledge sharing sessions, and other continuing education to maintain the highest quality service output.
- Serve on research team committees focused on clear project outputs such as intranet and ERM maintenance, hiring, subscription audit and review, etc.
- Support the law firm's information resource stewardship, complying with all information security, privacy, confidentiality, and licensing requirements while educating all users on the same.
- Special projects and duties as assigned.

Education and Experience Information:
- Minimum of 2 years of legal, corporate, or library professional or paraprofessional experience required, preferably in a role encompassing research or reference support services.
- Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from an ALA-accredited school or equivalent degree.
- Bachelor's Degree with more than 5 years of legal, corporate, or library professional or paraprofessional experience may be substituted in exceptional circumstances.
- Intermediate understanding of legal systems and concepts, with an awareness of the legal industry and current trends.
- Intermediate knowledge of research methods and competencies, including awareness of efficient and cost-effective research strategies across legal and non-legal information sources including generative AI.
- Ability to apply research plans, engage in reference interviews, review information, logically organize information, and integrate findings into work product.
- Intermediate research and database competency, including proficiency with Lexis, Westlaw, Lex Machina, Bloomberg, Intelligize, VitalLaw, RIA Checkpoint, S&P Capital IQ, Pitchbook, PACER, HeinOnline, or equivalent.
- Some familiarity with APIs and data visualization.
- Commitment to strong service values with the ability to exhibit sound professional judgment, discretion, strategic thinking, independent problem solving, and accountability.
- Experience giving presentations, including some familiarity with persuasive and confident speech and writing.
- Understanding of and proven commitment to relationship building, team building, and collaboration.
- Future-focused outlook with some experience engaging stakeholders towards surfacing and communicating problems, challenges, and opportunities.
- Self-awareness of knowledge gaps with personal effort toward continuing education.
- Team-minded and diplomatic, with an engagement in mentorship and knowledge sharing.
- Independently motivated.

Salary Information:
- Washington: $80,000 – $120,000/yr
- Illinois: $80,000 – $120,000/yr
- District of Columbia: $87,000 – $131,000/yr
- New York City: $87,000 – $131,000/yr
- Colorado: $73,000– $109,000/yr
- California: $87,000 – $131,000/yr

Benefits:
The law firm provides an exceptional benefits package aimed at promoting a work environment where individuals have access to resources necessary for professional and personal excellence. Benefits include comprehensive medical (PPO and HDHPs), dental and vision plans, life and AD&D insurance, short and long term disability insurance, tax-advantaged accounts for health care expenses, health advocacy services, behavioral health and counseling resources, 401(k), profit sharing, pre-tax transit and parking program, backup dependent care, senior care planning support, resources for individuals with development disabilities and their caregivers, and paid holidays and other paid time off, including paid leave for new parents. Benefits may vary by position and office.

The law firm is an Equal Opportunity Employer, not discriminating based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by law. Personal information collected from applicants will be used for processing applications and may include name, address, phone numbers, email, Social Security Number, and signature. Further information may be collected with consent for background checks, including criminal background, employment, and certifications.