Position Overview
A legal research assistant is a little different from a paralegal, which is a person who works at an entry level in a lawyer's office.
Hiring managers like those applications for
legal research assistant position which contains a customized cover letter.
Those interested in
a Legal Research Assistant position should showcase in their resumes basic legal knowledge, customer service skills, accuracy, computer competencies and telephone etiquette.
As an experienced
Legal Research Assistant with demonstrated expertise in planning, research and investigation for 5 years, I believe my qualifications and knowledge will greatly benefit your firm.
Usual work activities listed in
a Legal Research Assistant resume sample are greeting customers, doing paperwork, preparing cases, drafting legal documents, handling correspondence, and performing other duties as assigned.
For more information on what it takes to be
a Legal Research Assistant, check out our complete Legal Research Assistant Job Description.
See the sample below to get a better idea how to write a good cover letter for
legal research assistant resume.
Legal Research Assistant Summer 2007 & Summer 2008
So you want to build or update your resume for
legal research assistant position.
She worked for nine years at San Francisco Superior Court, first as
a Legal Research Assistant in the Civil Department and later as the Staff Attorney for the Unified Family Court.
In fact, IBM already offers a virtual
legal research assistant.
Jessica has excellent research abilities, honed from her experiences as
a legal research assistant for a prominent law professor, a judicial law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada, and an associate at a leading boutique litigation firm.
Its first investment was Ross Intelligence, the University of Toronto start - up that developed digital
legal research assistant Ross, an AI application built on IBM Watson's platform.
While our next startup doesn't have a chatbot interface per se, it does provide you with your own AI - powered
legal research assistant.
After marrying (aged 24) and moving to America, she worked as
a legal research assistant in Wiggin & Dana, the attorneys for Yale University, drafting submissions to the trial judge and applying law in practice for the first time.
She also served as
a Legal Research Assistant to Professor Kerri Stone, where she researched and contributed to articles on employment discrimination and harassment.
The feature uses Casetext's
legal research assistant CARA, an analytical tool that automatically finds cases that are -LSB-...]
Fresh on the heels of Casetext's
legal research assistant CARA being named new product of the year, Casetext is today introducing an expansion of CARA that adds briefs to its suggested results.
More specifically, AI will continue to push legal technology in the fields of Legal Research (with, e.g., virtual
Legal Research assistants), Contract Review, Security, and E-Discovery (see further).
To keep operations flowing,
legal research assistants may perform tasks such as answering phones, greeting visitors, scheduling meetings, filing, preparing documents, photocopying, drafting correspondence, and marketing the firm online or through direct mail.
Legal Research Assistants are also known as paralegals and provide support to attorneys.
Not exact matches
It can be a significant expense for societies to investigate these claims and in some cases it is unclear whether these societies have
legal obligations to inform the researchers» home institutions of their findings, said Jodi Wesemann,
assistant director for educational
research at the American Chemical Society.
In a recently published paper in the Washington and Lee Law Review, Kesan and co-authors Carol M. Hayes, a
research associate in the College of Law, and Masooda N. Bashir, the
assistant director of the Social Trust Initiatives at the U. of I.'s Information Trust Institute, propose creating a
legal framework that would require companies to provide baseline protections for personal information while also taking steps to enhance users» control over their own data.
Position:
Research Support Officer I / BioBank
Assistant Organisation: University of Malta Area of work: Biobanks, Ethical
Legal Social Issues, Impact
Position:
Research Support Officer II / BioBank
Assistant Organisation: University of Malta Area of work: Biobanks, Ethical
Legal Social Issues, Impact
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Research assistance portal for paralegals: tools, tips, resources, and tutorials to help paralegals and legal assistants produce critical and relevant research, along with career and professional advice and information
Research assistance portal for paralegals: tools, tips, resources, and tutorials to help paralegals and
legal assistants produce critical and relevant
research, along with career and professional advice and information
research, along with career and professional advice and information.»
As I explained when it launched last July, CARA is an automated
research assistant that finds cases relevant to
legal memoranda and briefs.
CARA — short for Case Analysis
Research Assistant — is an analytical tool that automatically finds cases that are relevant to a
legal document but not cited in the document.
The myriad of the Rules of Court and the flood of Forms dominate the cycle of all lawyers and Judges, and this is the toughest area for SRL»S to navigate and prepare because they have jobs and do not have the luxury of unlimited resources such as; a) Client Money b) Office supplies c) Secretaries d)
Legal Assistants e) The latest in
research tools at their disposal.
Trainee, Formosan Brothers Attorneys - at - Law
Research Assistant, Center of Public Law, College of Law, National Taiwan University (2006 ~ 2007)
Research Assistant, «A Study on the Correlation between Premier
Legal Remedy and Secondary
Legal Remedy», National Science Council, Taiwan (2008)
Research Assistant,
Research Project on the Innovation of Law Education at Institutes of Law, Ministry of Education, Taiwan (2006) Patent Agent (2006 ~)
While still in law school, he represented clients in disability and discrimination cases as a member of Harvard's clinical programs, worked as a
research assistant for Professor Christine Jolls and volunteered as a summer
legal intern at the Whitman - Walker Clinic, a community - based center providing a range of health care services in Washington, D.C.
As I explained in a post here last summer, CARA — short for Case Analysis
Research Assistant — is a tool that automatically finds cases that are relevant to
legal memoranda and briefs.
For fairly routine tasks, student
research assistants may be qualified based on several years of education in
legal writing and analysis.
Beth Hirschfelder Wilensky is a clinical
assistant professor at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has taught
legal analysis,
research, writing, and communication since 2003.
She received her J.D. from the University of Montana in 2006 where she was a member of the National Moot Court Team and a
legal research and writing teaching
assistant.
In particular, I'd recommend applying for LawRight - after my short time as a
research assistant I felt much more well informed, connected and capable of solving problems in the
legal world
He undertook the one year Postgraduate Diploma in
Legal Practice during 1994 - 95 and then spent one year as a
research assistant in the Department of Private Law, University of Edinburgh before taking up a lectureship in law at the University of Stirling in 1996.
Alternate Hearing Committee Member, District of Columbia Board of Professional Responsibility Co-chair, Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers Young Lawyers Subcommittee, American Bar Association Member, Taxation Section, American Bar Association Member, Taxation Section, District of Columbia Bar Association Former Teaching
Assistant,
Legal Research and Writing, Washington University School of Law Member, Pathfinder Program, Leadership Council on
Legal Diversity
She was working as a
legal assistant for
Research In Motion (RIM) when she applied to law school.
law schools pad their employment figures — 96 % employed — by counting as «employed» any job at all,
legal or non-
legal, including part time jobs, including unemployed graduates hired by the school as
research assistants (or by excluding unemployed graduates «not currently seeking» a job, or by excluding graduates who do not supply employment information).
Lindy also served as President of both the Board of Student Advocates and the Golf Club, and was a
Legal Research and Writing teaching
assistant.
As NextLaw Labs CEO Dan Jansen explains, the business driver behind Ross was the need for expert
legal research, faster, better and cheaper: «Ross is a virtual
research assistant which uses IBM Watson to help lawyers navigate and comprehend bankruptcy law.»
«This firm — the first labor and employment firm to begin using AI
research assistants on a large scale — is truly committed to leveraging technology across the entire work process to provide their clients with the highest value and most timely
legal representation possible.
She also worked as a
research assistant to Professor Robert Solomon, the National Director of
Legal Policy for Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada.
He was also a member of the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review and served as a teaching
assistant for
Legal Writing and
Research.
Caroline L. Osborne
Assistant Dean for
Legal Information Services & Professor of
Legal Research Wilbur C. Hall Law Library Washington and Lee University School of Law
She was also a teaching
assistant for
Legal Research & Writing, Appellate Advocacy, and Trial Practice.
Marc earned his juris doctor at the University of Western Ontario, where he served as President of the Labour and Employment Law Society, volunteered as a caseworker at the school's Community
Legal Services clinic, and worked as a
research assistant for a law professor.
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He is Student
Research Assistant at the METRO Institute for Transnational
Legal Research, and Teaching
Assistant for a number of compulsory courses given in the European Law School programme.