Legal Data Expert

Title: Legal Data Expert - Civil Rights/Environmental

Location: US remote

Full time

job requisition id: R89931

Job Description:

Lex Machina emerged from the Stanford Law School and Computer Science department. The company is part of LexisNexis, a leading information provider and a pioneer in delivering trusted legal content and insights through innovative research and productivity solutions, supporting the needs of legal professionals at every step of their workflow. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case.

About the Role

As a Legal Data Expert, you will have the opportunity to contribute domain expertise for Civil Rights and Environmental Law at a cutting-edge legal technology company. You will lead a team of attorneys to keep datasets current, contribute to public-facing communications, keep abreast of customer needs in the marketplace, and provide thought leadership. Lex Machina created the field of “Legal Analytics” and is the fast-growing market leader for law firms and Fortune 500 companies who want to use data to guide their legal decision making.

Responsibilities

• Analyze rulings in federal district court
• Lead a team of attorneys to maintain the dataset, including reviewing new events in litigation as they occur
• Work on an integrated product development team with engineers and other legal experts
• Become an authority on Lex Machina’s Civil Rights and Environmental Law data
• sAdopt responsibilities for data integrity and innovation of new feature
• Contribute to bringing Legal Analytics to new areas of Civil Rights and Environmental Law
• Act as a liaison for our customer success team when sophisticated user questions arise around data and Legal Analytics
• Identify trends using Lex Machina data
• Provide prioritized feedback to the product team about new features and improvements given customer feedback and shifts in the practice of Civil Rights and Environmental Law​
• Identify strategic opportunities to showcase Lex Machina’s unique Civil Rights and Environmental Law datasets
• Coordinate with the Lex Machina marketing team to create focused content, webinars, and blog posts
• Champion Lex Machina’s Legal Analytics by presenting at conferences and publishing articles

Requirements

• Juris Doctor degree (JD)

• Familiarity of US Civil Rights law, both the substantive law and litigation procedures in US federal district courts 

• 3+ years in a law firm, a corporate legal office, or providing legal services for a non-profit where Civil Rights or Environmental Law issues arose

• Motivated self-starter with a strong interest in data analysis

• Highly organized and can work independently to drive projects to completion

• Tech savvy with the ability to quickly learn new skills

• Interest in writing database queries (e.g., SQL queries) to develop a deep understanding of Lex Machina’s data

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Admitted to practice law in the United States preferred

• Ability to take virtual meetings in the late afternoon, Pacific time

• Experience with working on a remote/virtual team is a plu

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working for you

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
• Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

About the Business

LexisNexis provides legal professionals with essential information and insights derived from an unmatched collection of legal and news content—fueling productivity, confidence and better outcomes.  Our customers are among the most reputable large law firms in the world, as well as corporations whose name everyone recognizes. We have been featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, LA Times, and many more!

Lex Machina was named “Greater Bay Area Top Workplaces 2022” (The San Francisco Chronicle Top Workplaces in the Bay Area 2022). 

Compensation and benefits:

Competitive compensation and full benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with matching, short and long term disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, and more.

About Lex Machina and LexisNexis:

Locations: Remote or San Jose, CA office headquarters.