Legal Data Expert - Product Liability and Torts

Do you have your JD?

Do you have Product Liability and Torts Experience? 

About our Team

Lex Machina fundamentally changes how companies and law firms compete in the business and practice of law. The company provides strategic insights on judges, lawyers, law firms, parties, and other critical information across dozens of federal practice areas and a rapidly growing number of state courts. Lex Machina allows law firms and companies to anticipate the behaviors and outcomes that different legal strategies will produce, enabling them to win cases and close business. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Lex Machina is part of LexisNexis, a leading global provider of legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics. For more information, please visit: https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lex-machina.page

About the Role

This is an opportunity to contribute domain expertise as a Legal Data Expert – Product Liability and Torts at a cutting-edge legal technology company. Lex Machina created the field of “Legal Analytics” and is the fast-growing market leader for law firms and Fortune 500 companies who want to use data to guide their legal decision making.

Lex Machina has an opening for an experienced litigator interested in Legal Analytics datasets for federal district court. We need an avid Legal Data Expert to oversee the integrity of high value datasets, lead a team of attorneys to keep those datasets current, contribute to public-facing communications, keep abreast of customer needs in the marketplace, and provide thought leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze rulings in federal district court

• Lead a team of attorneys to maintain the dataset, including reviewing new events in litigation as they occur

• Work on an integrated product development team with engineers and other legal experts

• Become an authority on Lex Machina’s Product Liability and Torts data

• Adopt responsibilities for data integrity and innovation of new features

• Contribute to bringing Legal Analytics to new areas of Product Liability and Torts law 

• Act as a liaison for our customer success team when sophisticated user questions arise around data and Legal Analytics

• Identify trends using Lex Machina data

• Provide prioritized feedback to the product team about new features and improvements given customer feedback and shifts in the practice of Product Liability and Torts law

• Identify strategic opportunities to showcase Lex Machina’s unique Product Liability and Torts datasets

• Coordinate with the Lex Machina marketing team to create focused content, webinars, and blog posts

• Champion Lex Machina’s Legal Analytics by presenting at conferences and publishing articles 

Qualifications:

• Juris Doctor degree (JD)

• Familiarity of US Product Liability and Torts law, both the substantive law and litigation procedures in US federal district courts 

• 3+ years in a law firm or a corporate legal office where you handled both Product Liability and Torts issues

• Motivated self-starter with a strong interest in data analysis

• Highly organized and can work independently to drive projects to completion

• Tech savvy with the ability to quickly learn new skills

• Interest in writing database queries (e.g., SQL queries) to develop a deep understanding of Lex Machina’s data

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Admitted to practice law in the United States preferred

• Ability to take virtual meetings in the late afternoon, Pacific time

• Experience with working on a remote/virtual team is a plus

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. 

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $77,300 - $128,700. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. If performed in Colo