Legal Analyst

Job Title: Legal Analyst 

Location: Houston, TX

Duration: 12 Months
Pay Rate: $50 - $60/HR (W2 Only)

Job/Role Description:

• This role provides flexible legal support as a collaborative member of the Legal Services team across multiple practice groups, business areas, and locations based on workload, priorities, and organizational needs.
• Support regulatory, technology, commercial, corporate governance, compliance, and other legal matters and projects under the guidance and direction of attorneys.
• Prepare, review, revise, and organize legal and business documents using approved templates, guidance, and attorney direction.
• Analyze and summarize legal, regulatory, technical, commercial, and business information for review by attorneys and authorized stakeholders.
• Conduct legal and factual research and prepare clear, concise, and objective summaries of findings.
• Support legal matter intake, organization, tracking, reporting, document management, and follow-up activities through completion.
• Coordinate with attorneys, business partners, subject matter experts, outside counsel, and staff to obtain information, resolve outstanding items, and support timely delivery of legal services.
• Assist with regulatory, technology, commercial, compliance, governance, and other cross-functional legal matters based on business needs.
• Identify relevant facts, issues, dependencies, deadlines, and potential risks, escalating concerns to supervising attorneys as appropriate.
• Maintain accurate and timely information in matter-management systems, collaboration platforms, trackers, and document repositories.
• Manage multiple assignments, competing priorities, and changing deadlines while consistently delivering high-quality work.
• Handle confidential, privileged, personal, technical, and business-sensitive information with discretion and professionalism.
• Utilize Microsoft 365, approved AI-enabled tools, automation, analytics, and digital solutions to improve legal analysis, matter management, reporting, and workflows.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and improve legal processes and eliminate repetitive tasks.
• Provide investigation intake and routing, matter tracking, reporting, governance support, and timely follow-up through matter closure.
• Communicate effectively with attorneys, management, business partners, and cross-functional teams.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in legal support, regulatory matters, technology-related matters, commercial transactions, compliance, corporate governance, matter management, complex document review, or comparable work.
• Demonstrated ability to support multiple legal matters, quickly learn new subject areas, and adapt to changing assignments, processes, and systems.
• Experience analyzing complex legal and business information, identifying relevant facts, issues, gaps, and inconsistencies, and communicating findings clearly.
• Strong legal and factual research, document review, proofreading, editing, and analytical skills.
• Experience managing legal matters, tracking assignments, maintaining accurate records, and coordinating follow-up activities.
• Ability to analyze and communicate legal and business issues across multiple functional and organizational areas.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to prioritize multiple assignments and meet competing deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with attorneys, management, business partners, subject matter experts, outside counsel, and staff.
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively in a collaborative, team-oriented environment.
• Demonstrated discretion, integrity, and sound judgment when handling confidential, privileged, and sensitive information.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and the ability to learn and utilize new technologies, collaboration platforms, and approved AI-enabled tools.
• Strong problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and commitment to producing accurate, high-quality work.
• Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, standardization, and workflow efficiency.
• Self-motivated, adaptable, and capable of managing changing workloads and priorities in a fast-paced professional environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting multiple legal practice areas, business units, or different types of legal matters.
• Experience supporting regulatory, technology, commercial, compliance, corporate governance, privacy, cybersecurity, or intellectual property matters.
• Experience reviewing, analyzing, and summarizing legal, regulatory, technical, commercial, and business documents.
• Experience with legal matter-management systems, document-management platforms, reporting tools, and collaboration technologies.
• Experience with Microsoft SharePoint, Power BI, analytics, automation, or AI-enabled tools to improve legal workflows and reporting.
• Experience supporting investigation intake, matter tracking, governance reporting, and matter closure processes.
• Experience identifying and implementing legal operations process improvements.
• Bachelor's degree, paralegal certificate, law degree, or other relevant education or professional training preferred.
• Equivalent combinations of education, professional training, certifications, and relevant experience will be considered.