Research Specialist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔬 Research Analyst

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Harbor

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501 - 1000 employees

⚖️ Legal

📣 Marketing

💼 Consulting

Legal • Marketing • Consulting

Harbor is a globally integrated team of 800 industry experts working across strategy, legal technology, operations, and intelligence, focused on helping leading law firms, corporations, and their law departments achieve breakthrough outcomes. The company enhances law firm business development through powerful marketing technology and data quality management solutions, following their recent acquisition of CLIENTSFirst Consulting.

📋 Description

• Deliver high-quality legal research and retrieval services supporting Harbor’s law firm clients • Conduct in-depth legal, business, and other research and reference work using legal and non-legal information resources • Perform reference interviews and synthesize findings into clear, concise, actionable reports • Evaluate information sources for currency, reliability, relevance, and cost-effectiveness • Select appropriate research tools and databases • Maintain expertise across legal, business, legislative, analytics, and docket resources, including Lexis, Westlaw, Bloomberg Law, PACER, WK VitalLaw, and Lex Machina • Use request tracking software to manage, process, and document research tasks • Support intellectual property research involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, and related areas • Stay current through professional development and participation in library associations and related activities

🎯 Requirements

• MLS (Master of Library Science) or equivalent experience in legal research within a law firm, academic law library, special library, or research center • 5–7 years of professional research experience in a private law firm, academic law library, special library, or research-focused organization • Strong working knowledge of legal and business information sources, including online database searching, legal research techniques, and business intelligence gathering • Demonstrated experience using Lexis, Westlaw, and other core legal research platforms • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint • Ability to manage and prioritize multiple deadlines while maintaining responsiveness and attention to detail • Excellent client service orientation combined with strong verbal and written communication skills • Highly organized with effective time management skills • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a service-oriented team environment • J.D. preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time, fully remote position • Equal opportunity employment