Job Summary
The Research Librarian provides highvalue legal, business, and market research to support attorneys, business development teams, and firm leadership. This role combines deep research expertise with competitive intelligence analysis, delivering actionable insights on clients, industries, markets, and competitors to inform strategic decisionmaking and client service.
Job Responsibilities
• Conducts business, legal, legislative, regulatory research for attorneys, marketing staff and paralegals, providing initial analysis of research results and summaries of key findings.
• Manages both routine and complex research requests across practice areas and departments
• Provides background research and competitive intelligence on current or potential clients and markets in support of business and client development efforts.
• Distills and presents research findings clearly and professionally, tailored to client and stakeholder needs.
• Guides attorneys and staff on the effective use of research tools.
• Provides current awareness and alerting services for attorneys and staff.
• Assists in resolving access and technical issues with online resources.
• Remains current on technological applications and best practices relevant to providing high quality research services.
• Recommends additions of sources to the Research Services collection, maintaining a focus on trends in client requests and interests.
• Uses the research request system to claim, enter, and close requests, and submit timekeeping records.