Legal Research Specialist

1 day ago


Washington, United States Cadence Group Full time
Seeking a Highly Organized Legal Research Specialist

Cadence Group is a leading provider of research and reference services, and we are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Legal Research Specialist to join our team.

This role requires a strong understanding of federal and state court systems, as well as expertise in finding legal resources and government documents from a wide variety of electronic resources, including Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, and HeinOnline.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Perform complex legal research and legislative analysis of both current and historical legal topics using complex resources and specialized finding aids.
  • Locate information, often of a specialized or technical nature, from a wide variety of published and unpublished sources and electronic databases.
  • Collaborate with division attorneys, economists, paralegals, statisticians, research assistants, law interns, and field office staff.
  • Respond to inquiries made face-to-face, by telephone, or by virtual means.
Requirements:
  • Solid understanding of federal and state court systems, how to read a docket sheet, how a case progresses through a court, what the different types of filings are, and legal terminology.
  • Expertise in finding legal resources and government documents from a wide variety of electronic resources, including Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, and HeinOnline.
  • Knowledge of complex resources and special finding aids.
  • Extensive legal research experiences required.
  • Extreme attention to detail.
  • Proficient at finding both print (like West's Key Number System) and electronic resources.
  • Ability to clearly communicate with attorneys, economists, library techs, paralegals, statisticians, law interns, field office staff, and research assistants.
  • Highly proficient at locating information from free government resources, like GPO FDsys, Congress.gov, and regulatory agency websites.
  • Familiarity with any of the following: Lexis, Westlaw, Factiva, Ebsco, HeinOnline, ProQuest Congressional, Congress.gov, Google Scholar and regulatory agency websites.
  • Experience working in a federal government agency is highly desired.
  • Minimum of 2 years of experience fulfilling library reference and research requests.
  • Accredited Masters Degree in Library Science.
  • Juris Doctorate a plus.

Cadence Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.



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