Remote | Legal Research Specialist (Lexis+) — $70–$115/hour

We are sharing a specialised part-time consulting opportunity for experienced legal research professionals with substantial hands-on expertise using Lexis+ for case law, statutory, regulatory, and multi-jurisdictional research.

This role focuses on evaluating sophisticated legal research for authority, currency, completeness, and professional accuracy. Selected professionals will verify cases, statutes, regulations, quotations, holdings, and citations; identify missing controlling authority; distinguish binding from persuasive precedent; and apply advanced Lexis+ research techniques to complex legal questions.

Key Responsibilities

Case Law & Citation Validation

• Verify cases, statutes, and regulations cited in legal research
• Confirm that authorities remain good law for the specific proposition cited
• Identify negative Shepard's treatment, overruling risk, superseded authority, and other validity concerns
• Verify quotations, holdings, pin cites, and descriptions of judicial decisions
• Identify nonexistent, mischaracterised, or incorrectly cited authorities

Lexis+ Research & Shepard's Review

• Use Shepard's Citations Service to evaluate subsequent treatment and authority status
• Interpret Shepard's Signal indicators and Depth of Discussion information
• Review citing references and assess the significance of positive, negative, or questioning treatment
• Distinguish overruled, superseded, depublished, and factually distinguished authorities
• Apply verify-before-finalise research practices consistently

Advanced Legal Research

• Conduct terms-and-connectors, natural-language, and segment-based searches
• Use Lexis Headnotes, Case Summaries, Case Notes, and annotated statutory materials
• Work with Lexis+ and Protégé features for litigation research and AI-assisted discovery
• Use secondary authorities including treatises, ALR, Am. Jur., practice guides, and Practical Guidance
• Evaluate 50-state and multi-jurisdictional research while keeping jurisdictional differences clearly separated

Statutory, Regulatory & Currency Review

• Review annotated statutes and regulations for currentness and applicability
• Identify historical versions and changes in statutory or regulatory language
• Determine which version of a law was in force on a specific operative date
• Assess effective dates, amendments, superseding provisions, and related authority
• Verify that legal conclusions rely on the correct law for the relevant period

Research Completeness & Quality Evaluation

• Determine whether controlling authority has been identified
• Identify significant on-point cases or authorities omitted from an analysis
• Distinguish binding precedent from persuasive authority
• Review legal research for completeness, methodological rigour, and defensibility
• Provide clear written feedback explaining research deficiencies and required corrections

Ideal Profile

Strong candidates may have:

• At least 2 years of professional legal research experience
• Frequent substantive use of Lexis+, typically weekly or more, in a current or recent professional role
• Strong practical knowledge of Shepard's and legal citation validation
• Ability to quickly identify weak citations, misstated holdings, outdated statutes, and authority problems
• Experience conducting complex case law, statutory, regulatory, or multi-jurisdictional research
• Strong understanding of hierarchy of authority and jurisdictional precedent
• Excellent legal writing, analytical reasoning, and attention to detail

Educational Background

• A Juris Doctor degree with bar admission is highly relevant
• An MLIS or equivalent qualification combined with professional law librarian or legal research experience may also qualify
• Equivalent research-intensive professional experience may be considered
• Advanced training in legal research, litigation, statutory analysis, or legal information systems may strengthen an application

Nice to Have

• Advanced familiarity with Lexis+ with Protégé
• Experience using Shepard's Graphical and litigation issue filters
• Familiarity with Lex Machina Litigation Analytics
• Experience with CourtLink, PACER, Brief Analysis, or comparable litigation research tools
• Background conducting 50-state surveys or complex multi-jurisdictional research
• Experience using Matthew Bender treatises, ALR, Am. Jur., or Practical Guidance
• Familiarity with historical statutory and regulatory research
• Experience reviewing legal research produced by attorneys, researchers, or AI systems

Why This Opportunity

• Apply advanced Lexis+ expertise to sophisticated legal research evaluation
• Work across case law, statutes, regulations, secondary sources, and litigation analytics
• Use professional judgment to verify authority, currency, and research completeness
• Help improve the accuracy and reliability of complex legal research outputs
• Participate in flexible remote work with competitive hourly compensation

Contract Details

• Independent contractor role
• Fully remote with flexible scheduling
• Competitive rates between $70–$115 per hour depending on expertise and project scope
• Frequent professional Lexis+ experience is required
• Work may include citation validation, Shepard's review, statutory research, authority analysis, and research-quality evaluation
• Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
• Projects may be extended, shortened, or adjusted depending on scope and performance
• Work will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution

About the Platform

This opportunity is available through 24-MAG LLC. We connect experienced professionals with remote consulting opportunities across technical, evaluation, and project-based workstreams.

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