Research Services Coordinator

Location:

Rochester, NY (hybrid opportunity)

Do you have experience in research services, law, or business library? Are you excited about the opportunity to join an innovative, growing law firm that has been successful for more than 165 years?

Skills

Harris Beach Murtha’s Knowledge Services team is in search of a Research Services Coordinator with excellent organizational and analytical skills. You will THRIVE in this role if you have:

• A Bachelor’s Degree
• Law or business library experience (preferred)
• Familiarity with library software applications (preferred)
• Experience with Microsoft Office
• Strong initiative when assisting attorneys and staff
• Sound judgment in referring complicated questions to librarians
• Superior client service and listening skills

Responsibilities

The Research Services Coordinator is responsible for supporting the firm’s research services by performing basic legal, legislative, business, and other non-legal research on behalf of attorneys and professional staff. Do you have the DRIVE and DESIRE to:

• Perform legal, business and non-legal research, including searching public records
• Set up tracking and monitor new court cases and records
• Produce and manage current awareness alerts
• Assist with quick reference questions, case pulling projects, and assembling research materials
• Obtain documents from state and federal courts using electronic resources, third party vendor, or directly from court
• Assist with special projects and initiatives under the direction of Knowledge Services managers or Chief Knowledge Officer

Harris Beach Murtha Recognizes Everyone Has a Right To Be Included. You Will Be Successful In Your Career At The Firm If You

• Exhibit the ability to effectively multi-task, meet deadlines, and provide solutions in a fast-paced office setting
• Take initiative and adapt to changes in workflow, processes, and procedures
• Believe in the firm’s core values: collaboration, inclusion, ingenuity, respect, integrity, and commitment
• Enjoy working with diverse personalities within various levels of the firm
• Are comfortable working a hybrid schedule after training (1 day remote)

Harris Beach Murtha is not accepting candidate submissions from recruiting agencies for this position during the first two weeks after posting. Following this period, agencies with an active fee agreement with the firm may reach out to our internal recruitment team at [email protected] to inquire about potential collaboration for this position.

Salary information below will vary depending upon relevant experience for the position, geographic locations and weekly hours schedule. The anticipated weekly schedule for the Research Services Coordinator in Rochester is 38.75 hours per week.

Harris Beach Murtha is committed to an inclusive environment and we welcome applications from diverse candidates with varied background and skills, including military experience. Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

About Harris Beach Murtha

Harris Beach Murtha formed in 2025 via the combination of Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP. A forward-thinking and innovative partnership with the benefit of more than 250 years of combined history, Harris Beach Murtha’s New York roots reach back to 1856 and the firm has had ties to New England since 1936. Harris Beach and Murtha Cullina were separately among the country’s top law firms as ranked by The National Law Journal.

Harris Beach Murtha and its subsidiaries have a strong Northeast presence, but a global reach. Clients include Fortune 100 corporations, privately held companies, emerging businesses, public sector entities, tax-exempt organizations and individuals. The firm’s practice areas and industries served span appellate law, business litigation, commercial real estate, construction, corporate, environmental, energy, financial institutions, financial restructuring, government compliance and investigations, health care, immigration, intellectual property, labor and employment, mass torts, medical and life sciences, political law, product liability, public finance, tax, and trusts and estates.

The firm’s lawyers and consultants practice from offices throughout Connecticut in Bantam, Hartford, New Haven and Stamford; New York state in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, New York City, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Long Island and White Plains, as well as in Boston, Massachusetts and Newark, New Jersey.

The firm’s policy prohibiting unlawful discrimination applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, placement, assignment of duties, training, promotion, compensation & benefits and termination. It is the policy of Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC that all applicants and employees enjoy a positive, respectful and productive work environment, free from behavior, actions or language constituting unlawful harassment. Accordingly, harassment or discrimination of any kind based on an individual’s race or color, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, military status, genetic predisposition, carrier status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, creed, domestic violence victim status or any other legally protected status is strictly prohibited. Harris Beach Murtha complies with the provisions of the Human Rights Law, all other State and Federal statutory and constitutional non-discrimination provisions including non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.