Legal Researcher

Our customer, a leading global law firm, is looking to hire an Analyst with experience gained in a major law firm and/or in house financial services institution. Ideally you will have experience in the Transport sector, more specifically within Shipping and Aviation. This is a fast-moving environment, working on a variety of complex legal matters.

**Specific duties to be undertaken in the role**:

- Help with the diversification of shipping and the growth of aviation in the Transport Practice Group
- Include some client-facing elements, even if just in pitches and meetings. Not mean going out and winning work, but more build up some knowledge the team should showcase and share that with clients and industry stakeholders

**Key Requirements (Must Haves)**:

- Research Skills - identifying and understanding trends in Transport Sector
- Writing/Presenting Skills - reporting back to the business and partner in a variety of ways - as well as preparing the information for clients too

**Additional info**:
Research - The main role of an industry analyst is to identify and understand trends in the chosen sector. The role will:

- Monitor industry related activity, articles, financial indicators and regulation, reporting back to the group partners with concise action-oriented summaries that identify potential opportunities for growth.
- Analyse at what clients are investing in and report back assessing their reasons.
- Analyse clients against measurable criteria, such as growth in market share, or intangible factors, such as reputation for innovation.
- Conduct research on competitors’ products and services to identify opportunities for improvement in product offerings or pricing.
- Participate in strategic planning meetings to help develop long-term strategies that will benefit the firm
- Provide advice on how to productise services in order to reach specific audiences or demographics.
- Identifying trends in technology, regulations, and other factors that could impact the industry.

Reporting - Industry analysts report their findings in a number of ways, including:

- Real-time partner updates
- Group presentations
- Ghost-writing publicly available blogs and articles for our partners
- Client presentations
- Presenting findings at industry conferences or via online seminars.

Relationships
- Building relationships of trust with Partners, Clients and with key industry players.

**About Elevate**

Elevate provides consulting, technology and services to law departments and law firms across the globe. Headquartered in Los Angeles, our 1,600+ strong team of legal professionals, lawyers, consultants, project managers, and engineers operate across the United States, Europe, UK, and Asia, Hong Kong and Australia.

ElevateFlex, is the flexible resourcing capability within Elevate, we define and support a new flexible career within the legal industry. We match exceptional legal professionals to the evolving needs of our Customers through the curation of a world-class, global Community of Talent, and advanced, technology-enabled search. We were recently proud to be assessed in Band 1 of Chamber’s Global Flexible Legal Resourcing category.

Our Vision is a world where legal and business teams achieve incredible outcomes, together.

Equitability and Inclusion are critical to ElevateFlex’s success. As The Law Company, changing the legal business landscape, we know a diverse, inclusive work culture is at the heart of attracting, retaining, and celebrating the industry’s most talented people. We empower our employees to bring their whole selves to work because we know that diversity of experience and perspective drive innovation and is simply good business.

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Salary**: From £50,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Work from home

Schedule:

- Day shift

Application question(s):

- Could you please highlight your relevant experience for this role in 3-4 bullet points?

**Experience**:

- Legal Analyst: 1 year (required)