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Robert Half Job Information US - Legal Taxonomist in Houston, Texas

Description

Robert Half is seeking a licensed attorney for a full-time, fully remote, legal content/evaluation role.

Details:

  • Pay: $26/hour

  • Location: Fully remote

  • Duration: 5+months | Ending 12/31/2024 (with possibility of extension)

  • Hours: 40 hours – Eastern Time Zone

    Job Duties:

The taxonomy team designs, develops and maintains the legal taxonomy for US legal across a broad range of practice areas to meet all customer and product needs. This team is also responsible for classifying legal content to the taxonomy through the creation of complex legal classification rules or assembling high quality training sets to drive machine learning. The role will consist of evaluating the topics applied to US caselaw documents and to other US legal content types for relevancy and/or creating complex Boolean searches for legal topics.

Requirements:

  • Must be an actively licensed attorney and in good standing in any State.

  • Must be able to work EST or CST business hours.

  • Must have extensive experience using Legal Research Software (Westlaw or Lexis Nexis)

    Skills:

  • Knowledge and experience of working with relevant databases and information systems

  • Understanding of and ability to apply QA standards and procedures

  • Experience with MS Office 365, Word, Outlook and Excel is required

  • Capable of supporting work on enrichment guidelines e.g. manual excerption or taxonomy guidelines

  • Able to support work on gold/training set creation and rule-based classification

  • Basic data analysis experience

  • Ability to review and evaluate content to determine if the content is relevant to a particular topic.

  • Creating manual classification rules for legal topics that are used to classify content with a high precision and recall.

    For immediate consideration, please respond to this email with the following:

  • Email your UPDATED RESUME in MS Word format (no Google docs or PDFs or Pages please):

  • Please provide pre-planned time off for the month of February, March, and April:

  • Please confirm willingness to go through a criminal background check.

    Requirements

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook

• Familiarity with MS Office 365 and its applications

• Demonstrated ability in documentation, with a strong attention to detail

Must be an actively licensed attorney and in good standing in any State.

Must be able to work EST or CST business hours.

Must have extensive experience using Legal Research Software (Westlaw or Lexis Nexis)

Knowledge and experience of working with relevant databases and information systems

Understanding of and ability to apply QA standards and procedures

Experience with MS Office 365, Word, Outlook and Excel is required

Capable of supporting work on enrichment guidelines e.g. manual excerption or taxonomy guidelines

Able to support work on gold/training set creation and rule-based classification

Basic data analysis experience

Ability to review and evaluate content to determine if the content is relevant to a particular topic.

Creating manual classification rules for legal topics that are used to classify content with a high precision and recall.

Robert Half is the world’s first and largest specialized talent solutions firm that connects highly qualified job seekers to opportunities at great companies. We offer contract, temporary and permanent placement solutions for finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, and administrative and customer support roles.

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All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Benefits are available to contract/temporary professionals, including medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance. Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan. Visit roberthalf.gobenefits.net for more information.

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