Are you passionate about ensuring data accuracy and quality in legal datasets?
Do you enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and learning new technologies?
About the team:
Lex Machina fundamentally changes how companies and law firms compete in the business and practice of law. The company provides strategic insights on judges, lawyers, law firms, parties, and other critical information across 22 federal practice areas and a rapidly growing number of state courts. Lex Machina allows law firms and companies to anticipate the behaviors and outcomes that different legal strategies will produce, enabling them to win cases and close business. Lex Machina covers over 11 million enhanced cases and an additional 20 million dockets-based cases. To create our high-value entity data, Lex Machina has normalized over 146m counsel mentions and over 149m party mentions since 2016. For more information, please visit lexmachina.com.
About the Role
Lex Machina, the LexisNexis Legal Analytics platform, seeks a Legal Entity Database Specialist (DBA II) to build and maintain accurate entity datasets for federal and state courts. The role includes managing litigation data for parties, law firms, attorneys, and judges, ensuring precision and completeness while following established protocols and helping develop best practices.
The ideal candidate excels at detail-oriented data entry, values high-quality data, and adapts to fast-paced environments. Strong teamwork and interest in litigation processes are required, with collaboration across Customer Support, Engineering, and Product teams to ensure smooth customer experience.
Responsibilities
Reviewing and validating legal documents to ensure that customer-facing data in structured databases is accurate and complete.
Performing quality checks to maintain consistency, reliability, and correctness of data for law firms, attorneys, judges, and other parties involved in litigation.
Taking ownership of data integrity, identifying errors or discrepancies, and correcting them promptly to ensure high standards.
Collaborating with a distributed team across multiple locations to align data standards, priorities, and workflows.
Identifying gaps, inconsistencies, or flaws in datasets and proactively resolving them.
Maintain confidentiality and ensure compliance with company policies, legal requirements, and best practices.
Contributing process improvements and sharing insights to enhance the accuracy, efficiency, and usability of our legal data.
Supporting cross-functional teams, including engineers, data scientists, and product teams, to deliver a seamless experience for Lex Machina customers.
Requirements:
Experience with data entry or basic database structures is preferred,
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (Data Science/ Analytics, computer science, statistics, Mathematics)
Strong organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail.
Demonstrated experience in data curation, document review, or quality assurance is a plus.
Ability to collaborate effectively within a distributed team environment and communicate clearly across departments.
Interest in learning about litigation procedures, legal terminology, and legal data (no legal background required).
Ability to adapt quickly to new tools and technologies as needed.
Strong time-management skills, capable of meeting deadlines under minimal supervision.
Fluent English communication (C1 minimum) is required.
Work in a way that works for you:
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working for you:
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
● Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
● Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
● Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
● Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
● Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
● In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
About the business:
LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.
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What We Do
LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world.
We help lawyers win cases, manage their work more efficiently, serve their clients better and grow their practices. We assist corporations in better understanding their markets, monitoring their brands and competition, and in mitigating business risk. We collaborate with universities to educate students, and we support nation-building with governments and courts by making laws accessible and strengthening legal infrastructures. We partner with leading global associations and customers to collect evidence against war criminals and provide tools to combat human trafficking.
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 130 countries with 10,000 employees worldwide, is part of RELX Group, a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.
