Specialist: Legal Information Center Research

Overview

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.We are a collegial, collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realize their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Legal Information Center department in our New York office, as a Specialist: Legal Information Center Research.

The role of the Specialist: Legal Information Center Research is of one who while supporting the various practice groups exercises discretion and independent judgment while working under the general direction of the Senior Manager: Legal Information Center – US and according to established Firm policies and procedures.

The Specialist: Legal Information Center Research is primarily responsible for providing in-depth research and reference services to attorneys and staff to ensure that their needs for information are met efficiently, accurately, and cost effectively by performing essential duties and functions.  This is a professional library position.  Maintains professionalism and strict confidentiality in all client and Firm matters.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions:  

• Independently, creatively, and accurately assess incoming research requests to identify the scope, complexity and specific data required by the requestor
• Apply critical thinking to determine the most relevant and effective questions to pose as a part of the “reference interview,” to ensure that one is delivering accurate, relevant and timing results within any time constraints and/or budget restrictions
• Work closely with customers, practice groups, and other stakeholder to ensure clarity in research objectives and expectations
• Perform conventional and sophisticated legal and non-legal research using a variety of online research tools including but not limited to Westlaw, LexisNexis, CCH/Wolters Kluwer, Bloomberg as well as many other practice-specific databases
• Provide creative and strategic solutions to address unique research queries, adding value to the findings
• Perform research relating to corporations, securities law, banking and finance, litigation, employment/benefits, government/global trade, IP, bankruptcy, tax, environmental law. real estate and many other practice areas
• Provide accurate, relevant and timely research results to the practice groups, Business Development & Marketing Department, industry teams, recruiting department, and to strategic committees of the firm, in alignment with the firm’s strategic and business plans
• In conjunction with the other Firm librarians, evaluate, and when appropriate, recommend, new publications and research services in a variety of formats to develop the Firm’s information resources
• Seek out opportunities for collaboration across administrative teams in order to offer enhanced deliverables to stakeholders, ensuring that the outcomes align with organizational goals and client needs
• Makes informed and educated decisions as to the best and most relevant research tools needed in order to address and answer the requestor’s inquiry all the while staying abreast of new and emerging technologies in the legal research market and profession
• Legal Monitoring: track and monitor court rulings, government publications, news outlets, and relevant legislative, regulatory and judicial developments from local, national and international sources
• Responsible for opening, sorting, distributing mail; retrieving and working with the mail room to deliver library materials both within (e.g., office copies) and outside the Firm (e.g., interlibrary loans)
• Assists with publication check in and routing, invoice processing; verifying invoice matches materials received, bar coding, and labelling of those materials
• Maintains professional appearance of the library collections; to include shelving
• Responsible for the check-in process of the mail and loose-leaf filing into our ILS (Softlink) in preparation for the outside loose-leaf filing service
• Responsible for making library cla