Legal Staff Other in Boston, MA

Law Firm

Boston, MA

Legal Staff Other in Boston, MA

Legal Staff

2-5 yrs required

No

Job Title: Research Analyst (Hybrid)

Job Responsibilities:
- Respond to legal, corporate, industry, and client-related research and reference requests to meet the daily information needs of firm lawyers, business professionals, and clients using industry-standard databases and tools.
- Follow best practices in research strategy or provided research plans to answer all queries.
- Evaluate sources and organize information into high-quality work product sent directly to firm lawyers, business professionals, or clients.
- Exercise judgment and accountability in prioritizing billable workflow and either meeting or communicating effectively around deadlines.
- Provide and implement current awareness and litigation alerting, particularly as part of the firm's industry sector and business development initiatives.
- Offer group and individual instruction on research techniques, methodologies, and strategies.
- Train 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 an 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 firm research intake platform.
- Assess and report on resource or technology needs, as well as collection strengths and weaknesses, through conversations with firm lawyers and other key stakeholders.
- Attend research training, legal vendor training, knowledge sharing sessions, and other continuing education toward maintaining 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 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 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 Information:
- Comprehensive medical (PPO and HDHPs), dental, and vision plans including coverage for domestic partners.
- Life and AD&D insurance; short and long-term disability insurance.
- Tax-advantaged accounts for health care expenses, including FSAs and HSAs; FSAs for dependent care.
- Health advocacy services; behavioral health and counseling resources for all family members.
- 401(k); profit sharing; pre-tax transit and parking program; backup dependent care; senior care planning support.
- Resources for individuals with developmental disabilities and their caregivers.
- 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 and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related conditions, transgender status, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by law.