Overview

TheLegal Data Analytics Specialistsupports corporate Legal Departments data and analytics initiatives across litigation, investigations, privacy, data protection, information governance, and legal operations. This role plays a key part in helping the Legal team leverage data to improve decision-making, streamline processes, and enhance compliance and risk management.

The successful candidate will combine technical data expertise with a solid understanding of legal workflowsdesigning queries, formatting search terms, running analytics, and developing insights that drive efficiency and accountability within the Legal function.

Responsibilities

Data Search and Query Design

Develop, test, and optimize search terms and queries for litigation, investigations, and regulatory responses to ensure accuracy and defensibility.
Partner with internal and external eDiscovery, privacy, and investigations teams to refine search strategies and manage data sets effectively.

Legal Analytics and Reporting

Design and execute analytics to identify trends, metrics, and improvement opportunities across Legal Department activities
Build and maintain dashboards and data visualizations that communicate key insights to legal and business stakeholders.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Collaborate with stakeholders across Legal, Compliance, IT, Privacy, Data Protection, and Information Governance to align data practices and ensure consistency with enterprise standards.
Act as a liaison between Legal and technical teams, translating business needs into actionable data requirements.

Operational Efficiency and Process Improvement

Identify opportunities to automate and streamline legal data workflows 6 with an emphasis on review and production.
Contribute to the implementation and continuous improvement of legal technology tools and analytics platforms.
Support knowledge management and the development of analytics best practices within the Legal team.

Data Governance and Compliance

Ensure all data handling, storage, and analysis comply with corporate privacy, data protection, and records management policies.
Help define and uphold data quality standards, documentation, and governance protocols for legal data assets.

Qualifications

- JD or Paralegal certificate, or BS in relevant field: Bachelors degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Information Management, Legal Studies, or Information Retrieval Sciences, among others), or equivalent Minimum Experience
- a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in data analytics, preferably supporting legal, compliance, or risk functions in a corporate environment.
- Proficiency in query and analytics tools (e.g., SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Python, or Elasticsearch).
- Experience with eDiscovery and legal data tools (e.g., Relativity, Nuix, Reveal, or similar platforms).
- Strong understanding of data privacy, data protection, and information governance concepts.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical insights into actionable business recommendations.
Preferred Attributes
- Prior experience supporting corporate Legal or Legal Operations teams.
- Attention to detail
- Demonstrated ability to enhance operational efficiency through data analysis and automation.
- Strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Curious, detail-oriented, and adaptable to evolving technology and regulatory landscapes.
- Thrive in a collaborative team of independent contributors
- Question irregularities and investigate to validate data and outcomes
- Drive to push skillset forward by learning and testing new tasks
- Thrive on providing accurate and unimpeachable results consistently Thrive in fast paced environment requiring status updates and communication Essential
- extensive knowledge on Relativitys UI, and the concept, machine learning, and search capabilities
- Subject matter expert (SME) and Consultant
- Communicate, Coordinate, and Implement solutions and workflows and effectively communicate to project teams
- Advise internal teams on existing strategies, workflows, solutions and develop new ones
- Extensive experience in Relativity UI
- Proven work experience in the eDiscovery industry
- Extensive knowledge of the Microsoft Suite
- Industry certifications Data Analytics

Create Your FREE Profile When You Subscribe to Job Search

Consilio jobs

Legal Data Analyst