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Excellence, integrity, cooperation, individual respect, enthusiasm and pursuit of improvement. At Orrick, these core values make for a great place to work. Our over 1,100 attorney law firm is committed to providing the highest quality of legal service to advance the welfare of our firm and our clients. With offices throughout the United States, Asia and Europe, Orrick's goal is to become recognized as one of the greatest law firms in the world. This is an exciting time to join Orrick.

We currently have an excellent opportunity in our San Francisco office for a Research Specialist.

Responsibilities:

• The corporate research specialist supports the corporate department's research needs, and may assist corporate lawyers in other offices and geographies as well, working with a local and virtual team of colleagues.
  
• Provides extensive legal, corporate and business research and reference services for attorneys, staff, and research for detailed information on companies, individuals, and/or industries.
  
• Search databases for securities, exemplars, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, venture financings, private equity and Blue Sky matters.
  
• Perform customized research and complex literature searches in a very cost-effective manner.
  
• Attends and participates in practice departmental meetings and proactively follows-up. Monitors corporate legal and business developments to provide continuing coverage of issues and follow-up on research assignments. Maintains awareness of current developments and keeps attorneys updated.
  
• Takes shifts on busy research desk.
  
• Review various sources of information for reliability, relevance, and cost-effectiveness, and choose best sources for answering research requests.
  
• Participates in collection development by selecting material in corporate and securities. Collection development includes choosing appropriate sites for the R&I portal and identifying and reviewing new products.
  
• Provide orientation and training sessions regarding R&I procedures, resources, and databases.
  
• Completes special projects, R&I newsletter and Morning Report input.

Qualifications:

• MLS/MLIS/MSL or Master's of Library and/or Information Science from an ALA-accredited school.
  
• Five years of corporate or law library experience.
  
• Excellent corporate research, reference, and database searching skills.
  
• Experience with Lexis, Westlaw, Bloomberg, OneSource, LivEdgar (Westlaw Business), Capital IQ, VentureSource, MergerMarket.
  
• Proficient with MS Office and information technology.
  
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment and multitask assignments, and to approach problems with a sense of ownership, enthusiasm, and innovation in a collaborative team environment.

Orrick offers a friendly work environment, competitive salary, and excellent benefits.

Please visit www.orrick.com for more information about the firm.

Please send resume and cover letter to:sfjobs@orrick.com

No phone calls please.

AA/EOE