Legal Research Assistant - Health Lab Associate

Villanova University

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Position Information Posting Number:

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Position Title:

Legal Research Assistant 1 - Health Lab Associate Posting Type Student Hours /week:

No more than 20 hours/week during Spring and Fall; no more than 40 hours/week in Summer Eligibility:

Work study preferred but open to all studentsSemester
2026 Spring Location Widger Law School Building Detailed Work Schedulevaries by student schedule

Number of positions:varies

Department:241-Law School Instruction Contact Name:

Cheryl Baro Contact Phone/Extension:

Position Summary Information

Job Description

Summary:

Legal Research Assistants (RAs) provide valuable research support for law faculty scholarship.

• In-depth and sophisticated legal and non-legal research,
• Analyzing various primary sources including state and federal statutes, caselaw, regulations, constitutions, and secondary legal sources such as law review articles and legal treatises,
• Communicating research results to faculty verbally and/or in writing,
• Comprehensive cite checking which requires an understanding of sources from full or partial citations and extensive knowledge and application of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation,
• Maintaining confidentially of faculty projects and course assignments,
• Following protocols for academic legal writing regarding proper attribution, plagiarism, and general academic integrity,
• Working independently without daily supervision; exercising professional judgment when consulting with professor, librarians, and law school staff,
• Managing time and adhering to time sensitive deadlines,
• Acquiring and maintaining knowledge of any database or software necessary to support faculty research; examples include Zotero, Juris-M, Endnote, Microsoft Word (footnotes, tables of authorities, complex formatting), complex docket searching and data coding.

Must be hired by Professor Ana Santos Rutschman to assist with her health law research. Must be a currently enrolled law student at Villanova University's Charles Widger School of Law.

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Wage Rate:$15.00/hour Posting Detail Information Closing Date (11:59pm ET):

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