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Fidelis Oditah & Co. is a full service premium quality
Nigerian legal services provider, led by one of Nigeria’s most
acclaimed lawyers. Oditah has expertise across the broad spectrum
of Nigerian commercial law and practice including banking and
finance, commercial law, corporate law, dispute resolution,
employment, energy and natural resources, fraud and asset
tracing, infrastructure,
insolvency and reconstruction law,
private client, public law and taxation.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Legal Librarian
Location: Lagos
Responsibilities
- Acquiring & arranging the Firm’s information
resources/library and restoring the filing system of official
documents
- Manage the operations of the law library, including
monitoring, allocating, organizing and disseminating legal
resources
- Perform topical research for the firm’s e-bulletins and
other media
- Produce competitive intelligence reports for the firm’s
business development efforts
- Assist with background research for media opportunities
- Provide legal reference services and government document
reference services to staff & clients
- Conduct in-depth research in wide range of areas including
practice-specific areas of law, business intelligence, public
records, and legislative history
- Build a dynamic collection of information resources based
on the Firm’s information needs
- Conduct periodic reviews of new and existing electronic
resources with an eye toward improved service and research
support
- Gather evidence to support decisions about the development
of new services and products
- Perform various cataloging procedures for all types of
library resources
- Assist with other administrative duties as required.
Qualifications/Skills
- Must possess B.Sc. or HND in Library and Information
Science or equivalent
- Must have worked either in a library or that of any higher
institution of learning with at least 4-5 years of law
librarian experience
- Familiarity with an appropriate level of descriptive
cataloging, classification, and subject analysis to meet the
needs of the firm and the nature of its legal materials
- Familiarity with the Internet and its software applications
- Familiarity with knowledge of the legal system and the
legal profession
- Familiarity with personal computers & Microsoft Office
- Familiarity with the knowledge of library and information
science theory and the creation, organization, and delivery of
information within its technological context
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their
applications and CV’s to: careers@oditah.com
Application Deadline 30th April,
2015.