Legal Analyst
RELX · Manila ·
- Seniority
- Junior
Job Summary
The Legal Analyst mines litigation data, revealing insights never before available about judges, lawyers, parties, and the subjects of the cases themselves, culled from millions of pages of litigation information. They call these insights Legal Analytics®, because analytics involves the discovery and communication of meaningful patterns in data.
Writes material from a variety of sources for the organization's online/digital platforms (including broadband and mobile) in accordance with the established editorial and style guidelines. Performs routine assignments in the entry level to a professional job progression. Requires a college or university degree or the equivalent work experience that provides exposure to fundamental theories, principles and concepts. Receives instruction, guidance and direction from others.
Accountabilities:
This position exists to analyze, edit, code and annotate court documents for manual data enrichment necessary to be captured by Lex Machina legal analytics product.
The analyst is responsible for identifying, analyzing, coding and annotating properties, findings, outcomes (including damages), identifying expert witnesses, and building a detailed timeline linking all the briefs, motions orders, opinions and other filings for every case.
The analyst shall possess an intermediate knowledge of US laws and courts system, and/or a strong desire and commitment to gain knowledge of US laws and courts system.
The analyst must possess a passion for data rigor and interest in uncovering high value data.
The analyst must be highly motivated, possess excellent communication skills via email, video call and chat.
He/she must be highly productive, a self-starter but also a consistent team-player with strong collaboration skills and willingness to balance personal achievement with team goals.
The analyst is also expected to assist fellow team members with editorial issues and make decisions on complex legal editorial / analysis issues.
The analyst is expected to have a customer-centric mindset and ensure quality of online products by reporting errors and assisting in the resolution of such errors.
Qualifications:
Must be a law graduate or with a Juris Doctor degree (no remaining units in law school)
Legal practice and/or legal industry experience
Sound level of computer literacy - Knowledgeable of Microsoft Office programs especially MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Excel·
Must have excellent analysis and research skills
Excellent communication skills
Team player, detail oriented
Average reading, legal comprehension, analytical, quantitative, and deductive reasoning skills
Legal comprehension, and proofreading skills
Strong commitment to performance and team success
Demonstrate ability in the application of expert information to practical publishing environment·
Ability to quickly learn and apply enterprise AI tools and technologies to support technical workflows and business objectives
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