Position Title: Research Assistant - School of Law
Department: School of Law
Advertised Pay: 12.00
Campus Location: Washburn University
Position Summary:
The Research Assistant will contribute to faculty research projects; perform legal research, analysis, and writing for a professor related to the professor's scholarly or pedagogical work.
About Washburn University:
Washburn University is a teaching-focused, student-centered, public institution located in the metropolitan setting of Topeka that has earned national recognition for its high-impact programs for first-generation students. Washburn has a student body of over 5,500 undergraduate, graduate, and law students, a significant and growing number of whom are first-generation and Pell-Grant eligible. The University has created educational pathways for all students to be successful and achieve their educational goals.
Washburn is dedicated to recruiting and retaining a dynamic faculty, staff, and student body and cultivating a robust learning and working environment and curriculum. We employ more than one thousand faculty and staff on our campuses throughout Topeka and strive to offer competitive wages, an excellent benefits program, and a supportive culture and a healthy work/life balance. Washburn seeks to create an environment that reflects our core values for creating positive IMPACT: inclusion, modernization, partnership, achievement, community and transformation. In 2024, Washburn was recognized as one of the best colleges in the nation to work for, according to Great Colleges to Work For® program.
Essential Functions:
-Research legal issues and topics identified by professor.
-Review and summarize articles and book chapters.
-Provide analysis of how the material applies to the issues under examination.
Non-Essential Functions:
Answering phones, filing, and typing.
Required Qualifications:
Must have completed or plan to take, in the second year, the courses pertaining to the professor's research.
-Professionalism.
-Ability to maintain confidentiality.
-Computer/keyboarding skills.
-Excellent grammar; written and verbal communication.
-Interpersonal skills.
-Ability to multi-task.
-Understand legal terminology.
Applicant must be enrolled as a 2L, 3L, or LLM at Washburn University Law School.
Preferred Qualifications:
Hourly
Background Check Not Required