Senior Researcher - Brussels, Belgium
A prestigious global law firm with a rare opportunity to join their Brussels office as a Senior Researcher. This role requires strong French and English language skills and good knowledge of EU law.
Responsibilities include:
- Provide high-quality research to support local and global practices (collaborating where appropriate with other teams including Business Development, Marketing, and Knowledge).
- Support colleagues in monitoring and identifying legislative proposals, relevant issues and decisions on policy agendas including international trade, sanctions, and ESG.
- Research EU political procedures to keep up to date on relevant EU meetings.
- Train and onboard lawyers on the basics of legal research and build best practices
- Use current awareness tools such as Vable to create newsletters and alerts for ongoing monitoring of clients, industries, and events.
- Participate in evaluating and developing research sources and piloting new services.
- Ensure continuing professional development and stay abreast of the legal industry.
- Provide training and mentoring to colleagues in other offices.
- Triage research requests to offshore team members, where appropriate while focusing on more complex, high-level queries.
- Work with the procurement team on budgeting and acquisition requests.
- Provide research content for the Brussels intranet site.
- Ensure that library and research services are effectively promoted throughout the office
- Responsible for the general upkeep of the local library space and collection.
Requirements:
- Previous experience working in a law firm or other professional services firm, or other legal or government setting preferred.
- Strong up-to-date knowledge of and interest in the current EU Commission, Council and Parliament processes.
- Specialized knowledge and experience in Brussels office practice areas: Competition, Debt Finance, Disputes, M&A, and Trade.
- Strong analytical and research skills with the ability to analyze problems logically and methodically and to absorb and synthesize large amounts of information into actionable intelligence.
- Expert knowledge of key legal and corporate-focused databases and tools is preferred, including Lexis, Westlaw, Kluwer, Capital IQ, and EU legal databases, among others.
- Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other tools.
- Ability to work collaboratively across departments and with all levels of personnel and to succeed in a team environment.
- Ability to follow complex instructions with a high degree of accuracy.
- Time management skills, ability to stay calm under pressure when juggling multiple tasks to meet all stated deadlines.