Legal Staff Other in Austin, TX

Law Firm

Austin, TX

Legal Staff Other in Austin, TX

Legal Staff

2-5 yrs required

No

Job Title: Research Analyst (Hybrid)

Job Responsibilities:

- Respond to legal, corporate, and industry research and reference requests to meet the daily information needs of law firm lawyers, business professionals, and clients using industry-standard databases and tools.
- Scope, research, and respond appropriately to legal, corporate, industry, and client-related research and reference requests.
- Follow best practices in research strategy or provided research plans in answering all queries.
- Evaluate sources and organize information into high-quality work products sent directly to law firm lawyers, business professionals, or clients.
- Prioritize billable workflow and communicate effectively 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 an assigned research liaison.
- Develop and maintain an understanding of the information needs, workflow, and preferences of users and stakeholders to support and improve 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 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 law firm's information resource stewardship, complying with all information security, privacy, confidentiality, and licensing requirements while educating all users on the same.
- Participate in 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.
- A 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 products.
- 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 in 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 offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision plans, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, tax-advantaged accounts for health care expenses, FSAs for dependent care, 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, and resources for individuals with developmental disabilities and their caregivers. Paid holidays and other paid time off, including paid leave for new parents, are also provided. 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, 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 the application throughout the recruitment or employment process. Further information may be collected with consent for background checks.