Legal Taxonomist

Our client, a major legal and analytics company is looking to hire a Legal Taxonomist to join their team remotely! Candidates must be able to work with Eastern or Central Time zones

***This opening is a 6-month contract, with the opportunity for extension or conversion, and will be a 40 hour work week***

The role will consist of evaluating the topics applied to US caselaw documents and to other US legal content types for relevancy and/or creating complex Boolean searches for legal topics.

What You Will Be Doing

• Ability to review and evaluate content to determine if the content is relevant to a particular topics.
• Creating manual classification rules for legal topics that are used to classify LexisNexis content with a high precision and recall.
• Legal research to discover statutory content pertinent to particular legal topics.

Required Skills & Experience

• JD or equivalent required
• Must be licensed and in good standings in at least one state
• Experience using of Lexis and or Westlaw needed
• Previous law experience would be preferred
• Extensive experience of using legal research software is required
• Ability to complete complex legal research across multiple jurisdictions and practice areas is required
• 2 years+ proven experience of writing complex online searches to conduct legal research is required
• Ability to distinguish between different complex legal concepts is required
• Experience of MS Office 365, Word, Outlook and Excel is required
• Understanding of, and ability to apply, QA standards and procedures is required

The person who will be successful in this role will be somebody who?

Has experience of conducting legal research for complex legal issues. They should have experience of working remotely, being responsive to email and be available during core office hours. They should be used to meeting deadlines and production goals.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.