KM Research Analyst

Fox Rothschild - Lawrenceville, NJ

Full-time

Hybrid - Lawrenceville, NJ

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As a member of the Knowledge Management & Innovation Department, the KM Research Analyst conducts sophisticated legal and non-legal research to respond to firm-wide reference and research requests from attorneys, administration and staff. Please note that the required work schedule for this position is 8:00 am-5:00 pm Eastern Time.

Responsibilities

• Monitors workflow; responds and completes department requests.
• Provides comprehensive legal and business research using a variety of on-line and print resources.
• Conducts complex substantive legal research, precedent document searching, expert witness research, legislative history research, judicial research, docket and analytics searching, etc.
• Creates targeted, custom alerts to monitor developments in the law, docket tracks, litigation searches, etc.
• Precisely, intelligently, and promptly communicates the results of research requests to the requestors.
• Provides general support for KM tools and resources (i.e., Westlaw Precision, Practical Law, etc.).
• Works on special projects (i.e. collection development) as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in related field required.
• Minimum of three years of legal and business research experience in a legal, corporate or professional services environment.
• Thorough and advanced knowledge of legal research and general business research.
• Knowledge of and ability to use on-line resources including AI functionality within tools.
• Ability to synthesize relevant information needed for high-level decision making.
• Excellent communication skills with particular emphasis on written communication.
• Ability to multitask, manage time, establish priorities, respond to emergencies and deal with individuals with patience and diplomacy.
• Ability to maintain a service-oriented attitude, remaining poised under pressure.
• Self-motivated, detail oriented and organized with the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Masters in Library & Information Science or JD a plus.