Legal Research Assistant 1 - Health Lab Associate

Legal Research Assistants (RAs) provide valuable research support for law faculty scholarship.

In-depth and sophisticated legal and non-legal research,
Analyzing various primary sources including state and federal statutes, caselaw, regulations, constitutions, and secondary legal sources such as law review articles and legal treatises,
Communicating research results to faculty verbally and/or in writing,
Comprehensive cite checking which requires an understanding of sources from full or partial citations and extensive knowledge and application of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation,
Maintaining confidentially of faculty projects and course assignments,
Following protocols for academic legal writing regarding proper attribution, plagiarism, and general academic integrity,
Working independently without daily supervision; exercising professional judgment when consulting with professor, librarians, and law school staff,
Managing time and adhering to time sensitive deadlines,
Acquiring and maintaining knowledge of any database or software necessary to support faculty research; examples include Zotero, Juris-M, Endnote, Microsoft Word (footnotes, tables of authorities, complex formatting), complex docket searching and data coding.

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