Coordinates and manages medical/scientific research services and provides medical and technical research assistance to attorneys and staff.
Manages and directs Medical and Scientific Resource Center operations, including establishing short and long term plans, goals, objectives and policies and procedures for the Medical and Scientific Resource Center.
Assists with the preparation of the Medical and Scientific Resource Center's budget. Manages and monitors the budget and maintains financial controls for expenditures, including cost recovery options.
Provides oversight of the acquisitions process at all stages.
Coordinates requests with tobacco partners regarding the tobacco medical book/journal budget.
Reviews materials selection and provides collection development of textbooks and journals for the Medical and Scientific Resource Center. Evaluates the collection of core titles and litigation specific needs.
Maintains statistical reports of primary responsibilities, database content, and literature retrieval of the Medical and Scientific Resource Center.
Works closely with litigation teams and the trial coordinator to prepare medical/scientific materials for trials, including important and historical documents. Maintains schedules and content information on the trials.
Routinely evaluates the Medical and Scientific Resource Center's physical space and makes decisions and recommendations for housing the collection.
Serves as the primary liaison between the Medical and Scientific Resource Center and its vendors. Ensures pricing and payment schedules are commercially advantageous to the firm.
Oversees extensive collection of internal bibliographic databases in order to maintain control over historic collection of medical literature collected to support client services.
Markets and promotes the library through orientations and training for legal and administrative staffs to maximize effective use of electronic and print research tools and related technologies.
Conducts and/or monitors special projects, assignments and activities. Collects, compiles and analyzes information from various sources on issues related to trial preparation, exhibit lists, locating potential experts and large literature projects.
Coordinates and manages medical/scientific literature alerts on topics and experts for firm attorneys and analysts.
Acts as a liaison for the firm to the Health Sciences Library Network of Kansas City in order to maintain good relations with area health science libraries and to preserve interlibrary loan services. Provides services and leadership to the network.
Creates, implements, and evaluates library policies. Evaluates and determines staff training and development needs. Reviews work methods and procedures and develops changes to improve efficiency and cost effectiveness.
Routinely keeps track of time in specified intervals and submits time records daily.
Attends workshops, continuing education programs, library conferences and other professional training opportunities.
Maintains a neat and orderly workplace.
Uses excellent communication skills, written and verbal, and is courteous and professional at all times.
Uses adequate safety procedures while carrying out all duties.
Keeps supervisor abreast of current issues and potential problems as they develop; seeks advice as needed.
Master's degree in library science (M.L.S.) or its equivalent; or eight to ten years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Ability to work with software currently used in legal research and library science.
Shook, Hardy & Bacon provides a competitive salary and comprehensive salary and benefits package for professional staff which includes medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, retirement plan with a generous contribution plan, and paid time off.
The expected salary range for this position may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, area of expertise, and geographic/office location.
Shook, Hardy & Bacon has long been recognized as one of the premier litigation firms in the country. For more than a century, the firm has defended companies in their most substantial national and international products liability, mass tort and complex litigation matters.
The firm has leveraged its complex product liability litigation expertise to expand into several other practice areas and advance its mission of “being the best in the world at providing creative and practical solutions at unsurpassed value.” As a result, the firm has built nationally recognized practices in areas such as intellectual property, environmental and toxic tort, employment litigation, commercial litigation, government enforcement and compliance, and public policy.
For more information about careers at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, please visit http://www.shb.com/careers.aspx.
