Summer Research Assistant - Stevens & Lee : Job Details

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Stevens & Lee is a full-service law firm with approximately 200 attorneys in 16 offices in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, NYC, Boston, and Wilmington DE. We provide services to a wide range of business clients from lower middle-market to Fortune 500 companies – on a regional and national basis. The law firm is part of The Stevens & Lee Companies, a diversified professional services firm with synergistic lines of business, including an investment bank and other complementary financial and consulting services organizations.

Job Overview

At Stevens & Lee, the Research Assistant supports professionals with client-driven research activities. This role requires the ability to clearly communicate, locate, organize and apply information, and work both independently & collaboratively with a team to deliver actionable insights. Ideal candidates will have an academic background in business, communication, library science, or a related field, with strong organizational, language, and interpersonal skills.

This position is an internship, with the potential for full-time employment contingent upon performance and continued business growth.

Primary Responsibilities (responsibilities include but not limited to)

• Interpret communications and requests to identify information need(s), format, priority, and breadth.
• Perform client list reporting.
• Update the Master Client list weekly.
• Evaluate, refine, and censor client lists for cross-selling opportunity assessment.
• Build, evaluate and refine targeted lists for sales, networking, and product development.
• Daily retrieval of articles for professionals based on their client relationship or ongoing need.
• Monitor industry standards and news for practice groups, leadership, and administrative use.
• Design and run litigation reports and retrieve appropriate legal documents (PACER, Bloomberg Law, local courts).
• Pull financial statements and bond issuance reports (EMMA, SEC, FreeERISA).
• Identify and retrieve industry reports (IBISWorld, D&B Hoovers, etc.).
• Identify and retrieve Regulatory Proposal, Bill or Law text and supporting documents.
• Identify and retrieve additional third-party reports as needed (D&B Hoovers, S&P Capital IQ.
• Research, identify key details, and compose customized company profiles, biographies and industry reports.
• Verify government inquiries and involvement of entities and individuals (EPA, SEC, NLRB, OSHA, FDA).
• Verify Business State of Incorporation and Legal Names for business & organizations.
• Perform key professional, company, and lateral candidate “red flag” background and reputation evaluations.
• Find and validate individual or entity contact information.
• Create and refine spreadsheets and presentations for use by professionals.
• Identify need and construct data reporting tools to meet requested client or professional needs.
• Complete client-billable research, presentations, and reporting projects in collaboration with attorneys and professionals.
• Maintain detailed client-project task and time logs.
• Build law firm competitor & lateral benchmarking reports.
• Compile lateral target presentations and refine as requested.
• Support annual Firm sales and growth review and evaluation process.
• Compile research supporting platform strategic development goals & progress benchmarking.
• Compile research as requested for strategic business development and product creation.
• Assemble and distribute weekly newsletter to professionals.
• Maintain and report department workload and metrics.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills & Competencies

• Boolean and keyword advance electronic search proficiency preferred.
• Electronic database and browser search proficiency preferred.
• Familiarity with common computer document file formats and software (PDF, RTF, DOC, DOCX, XL, CSV).
• Demonstrated problem solving skills equivalent to education completed.
• Excellent spelling and grammar skills; highly organized; detail oriented.
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills.
• Flexibility to adapt to individual information accessibility needs.
• Ability to represent Firm in a professional manner.
• Strong time management skills.
• Work well under pressure.
• Strong work ethics; integrity.
• Discretion and ability to maintain client, firm & coworker confidentiality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; General Business, Business Intelligence Analysis, Library Science or Communications degree preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of Windows 10 and Microsoft Office Suite 2016 is required.
• Resourceful, self-starter with strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.
• Resource validity and bias assessment proficiency.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and balance priorities.
• Sincere willingness to continue to learn.

Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter to: [email protected].

Job Type:

Full-Time- 40 Hours/week

FLSA Classification:

Non-Exempt

Reports To:

Human Resources

In compliance with federal and state equal opportunity employment laws, The Stevens & Lee Companies is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in regard to race, color, national origin, religion, disability, age, or gender.