About Davis Graham & Stubbs
For over a century, Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP (Davis Graham) has ranked among the region's most prominent law firms, consistently offering quality legal services to emerging and established businesses of the Rocky Mountain West. While the firm's Denver location and intermediate size allow a close personal relationship with local and regional clients, our technology and broad experience allow us to partner effectively with businesses and their investors throughout the world. Davis Graham serves clients nationally and internationally, with a strong focus on corporate finance and governance, mergers and acquisitions, natural resources, environmental law, real estate, intellectual property, and complex litigation. Our lawyers have experience working with companies in the energy, mining, technology, hospitality, private equity, manufacturing, asset management, and aviation industries.
Summary
Under immediate supervision, this versatile position is responsible for addressing research requests that come through the Reference Desk, contributing to the firm’s Knowledge Management initiatives, as well as creating content for firm users, and contributing to department projects and initiatives.
Essential Functions
- Provides quick reference and in-depth research services using a variety of legal and non-legal resources, determining the appropriate resource to use based on time, cost, and user need
- Fulfill research requests of varying complexity, practice area and focus
- Conduct in-depth reference interviews—in person, via email, or virtually—to clarify the subject, scope, and purpose of request
- Analyze, summarize, and customize research results to meet the specific requirements of the requestor
- Maintain expert working knowledge of research resources and technologies
- Coordinate access to, license compliance with, and train on commercial databases; create research and bibliographic tools on legal and business topics
- Recommend, review, and test new services and products for possible addition to the collection and manage against duplication with existing resources
- Proactively monitor research requests for training opportunities tailored to both attorneys and staff
- Conduct research and technical training across a variety of mediums including individual, group, and electronically; prepare and maintain instructional materials
- Monitor legislative and regulatory changes at the federal, state, and local levels
- Conduct client research in a timely, accurate, and ongoing basis
- Active participation in department meetings as well as contributing to and documenting procedures and best practices
- Perform other duties as assigned
Required Skills/Abilities
- Ability to manage a heavy workload, competing priorities and multiple tasks effectively under tight deadlines
- Possess and maintain a strong working knowledge of an array of resources and technologies and the ability to adapt to new resources and technologies quickly and effectively
- Possess strong technical skills in electronic legal databases relevant to the firm’s practices
- Demonstrate an excellent attention to detail, strong organizational skills, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to tailor research strategy and resource selection based on time and cost constraints and other considerations
- Demonstrate excellent written, verbal, interpersonal, and technology skills
- Evaluate, analyze, and synthesize information from diverse sources and package final work product in a user-friendly format
- Exercise sound judgment and work independently with minimal supervision
- Work collaboratively with all levels of personnel
- Demonstrates a strong commitment to continual service improvement by participating in regular training and actively engaging in professional networking, associations, and online communities
Supervisory Role
None
Work Environment
In-state employees will be primarily hybrid in the Denver office. However, due to the nature of the position out-of-state, remote employees are also considered. The employee may be required to be at the office at the discretion of the manager.
This role routinely uses standard office equipment. Because this position will be handling client information, employees must work from a home office and not a public location during any remote periods.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position with benefits eligibility. Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Occasional evening, weekend work, and overtime may be required as job duties demand.
Required Education and Experience
Bachelor’s Degree
Minimum of five years’ experience in a research/knowledge/library department is required
Preferred Education and Experience
- A Master’s degree in library and information studies and/or J.D. from an accredited law school strongly preferred
- Experience in a law firm environment strongly preferred
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Application Deadline
This position is expected to stay open until October 29, 2025. Please submit your application as soon as possible and no later than October 29, 2025, at midnight to ensure consideration.
Salary range is based on or commensurate with experience.
Davis Graham offers competitive benefits. For a full list of benefits provided, please select this link: Benefits.
Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, marital status, genetic information, military status or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
