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Placement: Knowledge Management Specialist - New York City

By David Badertscher, PLL

Leading international law firm is seeking a very focused, detail-oriented candidate with law or law-related experience for its growing corporate Knowledge Management Group.  The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with sound knowledge of legal and corporate documents who is able to competently extract important and relevant information from corporate content. 

THE POSITION:    Work independently and with minimal supervision to monitor, review, and process submissions of new user-submitted corporate content to the internal work-product database on the firm?s portal.  Maintain corporate precedent databases. Respond to requests from portal users for information related to mergers & acquisitions, private equity, and other corporate finance transactions.  Review corporate portal records to establish accuracy and consistency in search results.  Monitor need for changes to portal metadata values based on new submissions.  With other KM staff members develop and maintain consistent metadata values and standard coding practices.  Train and supervise the Metadata Specialist.  Respond to general, business, corporate, and legal reference requests.   Report to KM Manager and Library and KM Director; also consult with Library Research Manager as needed.

REQUIREMENTS:

• BA/BS minimum--an advanced degree (ex. MLIS, MLS, JD, MBA) preferred

• Experience within a corporate setting as a  librarian, information specialist,    paralegal / legal assistant, lawyer or any law-related area

• An understanding of and familiarity working with corporate and securities documents, transactions, and issues

• Strong knowledge of the US & Global capital markets

• In-depth knowledge of SEC filing content and procedures 

• Experience using Lexis, Westlaw, and other financial or business research resources 

• Good internet research skills, strong writing skills, and attention to detail

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

• Ideally, also: Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills; able to work with formulas, filters and auto-lookup. Familiarity with portals, especially Plumtree or BEA Aqualogic

Job Code ND-04R                   (resumes in Word preferred)

Check out our website www.wontawk.com for further opportunities!

For further details on this job, to send your resume, or to make a referral:

Contact: 

   swarner@wontawk.com     212/869-3348

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Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on August 04, 2008 (boomark / email).