Legal Reference And Research Librarian

Responsibilities:

• Research expert witnesses for litigation
• Respond to inquiries made face-to-face, by telephone, or by email
• Legal and legislative reference, reference development
• Ability to provide legal and non-legal reference and research services using a wide variety of electronic resources, including Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, and HeinOnline.
• Experience using West’s Key Number System and CLEAR Investigative database software.
• Perform complex legal research and legislative analysis of both current and historical legal topics using complex resources and specialized finding aids for the following divisions: Civil Appellate, Criminal Division, National Security Division, United States Attorneys’ Offices, Environmental and Natural Resources Division, Civil Rights and many others.
• Locate information, often of a specialized or technical nature, from a wide variety of published and unpublished sources and electronic databases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

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
• Knowledge of complex resources and special finding aids
• Extensive legal research experience required
• Extreme attention to detail
• Proficient at finding both print and electronic resources
• Ability to collaborate with other librarians and library technicians
• Ability to clearly communicate with attorneys, paralegals, interns, etc.
• Highly proficient at locating information from free government resources, such GPO FDsys, Congress.gov, and regulatory agency websites
• Familiarity with the following: Lexis including Courtlink, Westlaw, HeinOnline, ProQuest databases (Congressional, Legislative Insight, Regulatory Insight, etc.), Google Scholar
• Experience working in a federal government agency 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.