Three Positions: Washington, D.C.

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Position: Research Analyst
Location: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Posted: AALL, LLSDC
Salary: $80,000-100,000

Job Description: Pillsbury is seeking a detail-oriented and resourceful Research Analyst to join our team. This role is integral to supporting the firm’s attorneys, business professionals, and clients by providing a high level of professional support.

Key Responsibilities

  • Performs research at levels ranging from basic to in-depth to support firm clients, attorneys, and staff. 
  • Provides current awareness monitoring
  • Participates in the evaluation of research resources, tools, and technologies.
  • Serves as a liaison to designated practice groups.
  • Spends part of each workday as “Librarian on Duty” monitoring workflow ticketing system (Quest), conducting reference interviews and completing or appropriately re-directing requests.
  • Develops and delivers training for the firm’s Billable Credit for Research and Technology Training program.
  • Participates in bi-weekly staff, and other department meetings.

Required Skills and Abilities

  • Strong customer service orientation, intellectual curiosity and the ability to work independently and collaboratively with the Research Services team, attorneys and business professionals.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to summarize lengthy, complex information to aid attorneys in how to quickly find and use information.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office is required.
  • Proficiency with Lexis, Westlaw, and PACER is required. Proficiency with additional resources such as Quest, Bloomberg Law, Wolters Kluwer, RIA Checkpoint, Lex Machina, Capital IQ, Courtlink, and Courthouse News is preferred.
  • Experience developing or delivering training in a law firm or corporate setting is preferred.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality of firm and client information.

California, New York and Washington DC Pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on skillset and experience, is $80k-$100k. Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position in accordance with the California Fair Chance Act. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you require an accommodation in order to apply for a position, please contact us at PillsburyWorkday@pillsburylaw.com.

Position: Research Librarian
Location: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Posted: LLSDC
Salary: $99,000-117,000

Description: This is an exciting opportunity to work for one of the top law firms in the U.S.! Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is looking for a Research Librarian to join our team in our Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, or Washington D.C.offices. We offer a hybrid work engagement with four days of remote work, and one day in-office. 

This position will be part of a forward-thinking, diverse and inclusive team responsible for gathering, synthesizing and delivering legal, business and technical information to attorneys and professional staff; providing solutions for research, current awareness, competitive intelligence and knowledge management; and collaborating with teammates to support the complex, evolving research needs of the firm’s clients.

At Davis Wright Tremaine, you will find challenging assignments, opportunities for professional growth and community involvement, and a culture of inclusion. DWT fosters inclusiveness and authenticity. Regardless of position, everyone here has a voice and the support is unparalleled.

On a typical day you will:

  • Collaborate with a nation-wide team of librarians to provide comprehensive and sophisticated research, current awareness and knowledge management services for colleagues in all firm offices
  • Share best practices with attorneys and professional staff on the intelligent and cost-effective use of research resources
  • Develop expertise in a wide variety of legal, business and practice-related resources
  • Develop expertise in AI resources to enhance research capabilities
  • Contribute to the on-going development of team workflows and documentation
  • Engage with attorneys and professional staff colleagues to foster a culture of knowledge sharing
  • Participate in local and national professional development activities
  • Assist with various administrative duties and projects as necessary

Join us if you have:

  • Master’s degree in Library and Information Science or JD
  • 3+ years’ legal reference and research experience, preferably in a law or corporate library
  • Demonstrated proficiency with major legal and business research platforms, public records resources, competitive intelligence tools, and state and federal legal information sources
  • Knowledge of law, agencies, and information resources in California or any state where the firm has an office
  • Knowledge of emerging research and knowledge sharing technologies, including AI and collaboration software, and familiarity with knowledge management principles
  • Expert customer service skills. Demonstrated ability to communicate professionally with attorneys and professional staff in a time-sensitive manner. High degree of sensitivity to confidential matters
  • Exceptional collaborative skills. Ability to work closely with teammates located in multiple offices and different time zones
  • Ability to work effectively with commercial vendors
  • Excellent analytical, organizational and multi-tasking skills

District of Columbia: The annualized salary range for this position in Washington D.C. is $99,000 to $117,000. Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law. Full time employees may be eligible for a bonus, health insurance with an optional HSA, short term disability, long term disability, dental insurance, vision care, telemedicine and virtual short term solution based counseling services, life insurance, Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, subsidized backup care and caregiving resources, 401(k), vacation, sick time, and an employee assistance program. Additional voluntary programs include: voluntary accident insurance, voluntary life, voluntary disability, voluntary long term care, and pet insurance. Commuter and Transit programs are also available.

Position: Librarian (Senior Network Consultant)
Location: Library of Congress
Posted: USA Jobs
Salary: $120,579-156,755

Summary: The position serves as a Senior Network Consultant in the Network Services Section, Patron and Network Engagement Division, National Library Services for Blind/Print Disabled (NLS) within the Library Collections and Services Group (LCSG) at the Library of Congress (LOC). The position description number for this position is 415313. This is a non-supervisory, bargaining unit position.

Candidates with a PhD, MLS, MLIS or equivalent degree are encouraged to apply.

This position requires elevated IT access to systems to perform the work of the position. This position requires a Public Trust background investigation at the Moderate risk level. The position reports directly to the Head, Network Services Section and solves highly complex problems, makes significant recommendations to change, interpret, or develop important or innovative information policies, programs, approaches, or analysis methods.

The position provides expert consultative service concerning all aspects of Braille and Talking Book resources to libraries serving readers who are blind and print-disabled in an assigned portion of the NLS four regional conferences; represents NLS as a Senior Network Consultant in contact with a network of cooperating libraries, administering agencies, consumer groups, as well as general public and library professionals; recommends and identifies service trends and specific problems which have general impact on the network and NLS; writes reports, prepares articles for publication, evaluations and correspondence; advises on, reviews and analyzes comparative statistical data related to network libraries; represents NLS at conferences as Senior Network Consultant; and delivers speeches. Provides project management coordination for assigned NLS and network projects.

Duties:

  • Provides expert consultative service to an assigned portion of the service network concerning all elements of library service to readers who are blind and print-disabled. Serves as NLS Senior Network Consultant expert on regional library concerns and activities, related to guidance and access, in his or her portion of the nation.
  • Supports network libraries in collection building activities, assisting with decisions about automation enhancements, advising outreach activities and offering reader advisors training in basic reference tools such as the network library services website resources.
  • Independently provides effective leadership, management of resource allocation, deliverables and milestones, negotiation skills, realistic scheduling, critical thinking, comprehensive strategic planning, project monitoring,  risk management analysis, coaching, communication with stakeholders , and, if needed, contract management.
  • Coordinates field tests and pilot projects initiated by NLS in collaboration with network libraries. Identifies resources, details timeframes, develops goals and objectives; gathers data when appropriate and required in best practices, and produces reports for orientations, national conferences, yearly events, and trainings.
  • Works on library information resource matters, including working on agency level committees and working groups to develop recommendations regarding the evaluation of information resources.
  • Conducts user evaluations while serving as liaison for publications about network activities. Identifies and recommends the need for resources and compiles information for the network Operations s which are devoted to topics of concern to cooperating libraries, such as circulation matters, outreach activities, use of volunteers, cooperation with other community agencies, workflows, staffing patterns, developing services, providing specific examples for libraries with successful or innovative programs. Researches and drafts correspondence for appropriate administrative personnel on inquiries and complaints from Congressional Offices related to network library service.
  • Organizes and coordinates assignments that involve complex and unusual or obscure problems and/or special requirements. Uses initiative and resourcefulness to exercise flexibility for extending accepted methods, techniques, and practices. Recommends solutions and resolves important issues when precedents do not apply. Identifies areas for improvement in established methods. Develops and shares new information sources. Performs detailed analyses and evaluations of requests. Prepares reports, analyses, and other documents related to information and research efforts. Manages electronic documents including the storage, retrieval, and exchange of information.
  • Independently performs in-depth analyses in order to develop and interpret related policies and procedures for an organization by reviewing all consultant reports and telephone records on an ongoing basis to identify service trends and specific problems which may have general impact; recommends appropriate NLS action to resolve or ease problems; prepares position papers as necessary. Reviews network publications, forms, applications, and newsletters for accuracy and completeness regarding services offered and conformance to NLS requirements.

Qualifications: Applicants must have had progressively responsible experience and training sufficient in scope and quality to furnish them with an acceptable level of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position without more than normal supervision. The knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) that are marked with a double asterisk (**) in the vacancy announcement and the applicant questionnaire are considered the most critical for a position. 

  • Ability to provide consultation and liaison services.**
  • Ability to plan, develop and execute library programs and projects.**
  • Ability to manage projects.
  • Ability to apply analytical and evaluative techniques to develop recommendations.
  • Ability to communicate in writing.
  • Ability to communicate effectively other than in writing.