Job details
Hourly contract
Remote
$76 – $120
To qualify you must use Lexis+ regularly – weekly or more – as a working part of your job, with 2+ years of professional legal experience.
Lexis+ knowledge we require
Citators / good law
- Shepard’s Citations Service: Shepard’s Signal indicators (red stop sign, orange “Q” questioned, yellow caution, green positive treatment, blue “I” citing references), Depth of Discussion indicators, citing references, overruling risk (Westlaw: KeyCite)
- Distinguishing overruled, superseded, depublished, and distinguished-on-facts authority
Searching & finding
- Terms-and-connectors (Boolean) vs. natural-language search; segment searching
- Lexis Headnotes, Case Summaries, and Case Notes (annotated statute equivalent to Notes of Decisions)
- Lexis+ with Protégé – litigation issue filters, Shepard’s Graphical (visual case history)
- Protégé natural-language / AI-assisted search
Secondary sources
- Treatises (Matthew Bender), ALR, Am. Jur., practice guides, Practical Guidance (Lexis Practice Advisor), 50-state surveys
Statutes & regulations
- Annotated statutes/regs; version comparison; historical and effective-date versions; currentness
- The version of the law in force on a given operative date
Analytics & records
- Litigation Analytics (Lex Machina); Brief Analysis; dockets / CourtLink / PACER
What you’ll do
- Confirm every case, statute, and regulation is still good law for the point cited; catch negative Shepard’s treatment
- Catch non-existent or misdescribed cases; verify quotes, holdings, and pin cites
- Judge completeness: is controlling authority found; are on-point cases missed; are 50-state / multi-jurisdiction splits kept distinct
- Verify currency: the version of the law in force on the operative date
- Distinguish binding vs. persuasive authority; require verify-before-finalize
Requirements
- Frequent Lexis+ use – weekly or more – for substantive legal research in your current or recent role
- 2+ years of professional legal-research experience
- Reflexive Shepard’s / KeyCite use; can spot a bad cite, misstated holding, or superseded statute on sight
- J.D. and bar admission, MLIS / law librarian, or equivalent research-heavy experience
We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.
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