Reference and Research Librarian Washington DC (Hybrid)
Cadence Group is seeking a highly skilled Reference and Research Librarian to support a federal law library in Washington, DC. This role provides advanced legal and legislative research services, supports front desk operations, and collaborates closely with attorneys, economists, paralegals, statisticians. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical abilities, extensive experience with legal research tools, and exceptional attention to detail.
- Perform front desk support and provide legal, congressional, legislative history, and/or regulatory research services.
- Conduct legal and non-legal reference work and support reference development initiatives.
- Deliver reference and research services using a wide range of electronic resources, including Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, and HeinOnline.
- Utilize West’s Key Number System and CLEAR Investigative database software.
- Research and identify potential expert witnesses for Justice Department litigation.
- Conduct complex legal research and legislative analysis on current and historical topics across divisions such as Civil Appellate, Criminal, National Security, U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, Environmental and Natural Resources, Civil Rights, and others.
- Locate specialized or technical information from diverse published, unpublished, and electronic sources.
- Collaborate with attorneys, economists, paralegals, statisticians, research assistants, law interns, and field office staff.
- Respond to inquiries in person, by telephone, and through virtual communication tools.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience fulfilling library reference and research requests.
- Accredited Master’s Degree in Library Science required.
- Strong understanding of federal and state court systems, docket sheets, case progression, filing types, and legal terminology.
- Expertise in locating legal resources and government documents using platforms such as Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, and HeinOnline.
- Knowledge of complex reference tools and specialized finding aids.
- Extensive legal research experience required.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
- Proficient in locating both print and electronic resources, including West’s Key Number System.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage with attorneys, economists, paralegals, statisticians, interns, and research staff.
- High proficiency in using free government resources such as GPO FDsys, Congress.gov, and regulatory agency websites.
- Familiarity with tools such as Factiva, EBSCO, ProQuest Congressional, Google Scholar, and related platforms.
Cadence Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.
Law Librarian Full-Time, On-site (Washington, DC)
Cadence Group is seeking a detail‑oriented Law Librarian to support litigation and legal research across multiple practice areas.
- Research expert witnesses for litigation
- Respond to inquiries made face-to-face, by telephone, or by email
- Legal and legislative reference, reference development
- Ability to provide legal and non-legal reference and research services using a wide variety of electronic resources, including Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, and HeinOnline
- Experience using West’s Key Number System and CLEAR Investigative database software
- Perform complex legal research and legislative analysis of both current and historical legal topics using complex resources and specialized finding aids for the following divisions: Civil Appellate, Criminal Division, National Security Division, United States Attorneys’ Offices, Environmental and Natural Resources Division, Civil Rights and many others
- Locate information, often of a specialized or technical nature, from a wide variety of published and unpublished sources and electronic databases
- Collaborate with division attorneys, economists, paralegals, statisticians, research assistants, law interns, and field office staff
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Minimum of 2 years of experience fulfilling legal reference research requests
- Accredited Masters Degree in Library Science
- Expertise in finding legal resources and government documents from a wide variety of electronic resources
- Knowledge of complex resources and special finding aids
- Extensive legal research experience required
- Extreme attention to detail
- Proficient at finding both print and electronic resources
- Ability to collaborate with other librarians and library technicians
- Ability to clearly communicate with attorneys, paralegals, interns, etc
- Highly proficient at locating information from free government resources, such GPO FDsys, Congress.gov, and regulatory agency websites
- Familiarity with the following: Lexis including Courtlink, Westlaw, HeinOnline, ProQuest databases (Congressional, Legislative Insight, Regulatory Insight, etc.), Google Scholar
Cadence Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.
Records Clerk – Full-Time, On-site (Washington, DC)
Pay Rate: $21.96/hour (SCA Position)
Clearance Required: Secret
Cadence Group is seeking a detail-oriented Records Clerk to support our client in Washington, DC. This position plays a key role in an electronic records conversion project and provides ongoing support to the Records Center.
- Handles day-to-day records management tasks, including inventorying, filing, organizing, and maintaining records.
- Familiarity with records classification and retention policies.
- Contributes to the development and maintenance of a systematic records classification system
- Organizes, classifies, and tags content based on pre‐defined standards and procedures
- Assigns all required meta‐data and inputs in the appropriate format
- Responsible for filing, sorting, scanning/OCR, tracking file location, and uploading files
- Performs quality checks on scanned images
- Applies established access controls to information holdings
- Assists end-users with database searches and reports
- Responds to daily records and file requests from various end-users by locating, pulling, and delivering records in person or electronically
- Assists in indexing and boxing records to go offsite, performs data entry
- Tracks offsite storage inventory; retrieves paper or microform records from offsite storage or onsite records center
- Assists with records management-related projects
- Must be a United States citizen.
- Must have at least 3+ years of experience in records management and clerical roles.
- Experience using at least one document management system
- Experience using scanning software
- Experience with microfilm or microfiche
- Minimum two (2) years’ experience in records, library or related field
- Excellent customer service, written and verbal communication skills
- Strong working knowledge of MS Office Suite
- Ability to lift and move boxes weighing 25 pounds
- Bachelor's degree in information science, information management or related discipline preferred
- Experience working in the utilities industry is highly preferred
- Database experience plus
Cadence Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.
Contingent Positions
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- Database Administrator
- Enterprise Architect
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- Information Technician
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- Legal Researcher
- Library Director
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- Library Technician
- Medical Librarian
- Metadata Librarian
- Program Manager
- Project Coordinator
- Project Manager
- Public Health Analyst
- Public Health SME
- Records Analyst
- Records Clerk
- Records Coordinator
- Records Manager
- Reference and Research Librarian
- SAS Programmer
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