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- Identify negative Shepard's treatment, overruling risk, superseded authority, and other validity concerns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- Distinguish overruled, superseded, depublished, and factually distinguished authorities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
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