NEW JOB OPENING
LEGAL ANALYST (REGULATORY, COMPLIANCE & CORPORATE GOVERNANCE)
IN Houston, TX, USA!

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree, paralegal certificate, law degree, or other relevant education or professional training.

• Equivalent combinations of education, professional training, certifications, and relevant experience will be considered.



Required Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of professional experience involving legal support, regulatory matters, technology-related matters, commercial transactions, compliance, corporate governance, matter management, complex document review, or comparable work.

• Demonstrated ability to learn new subject areas, processes, systems, and stakeholder environments and to transition effectively among different assignments.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex information, identify relevant facts and issues, recognize gaps or inconsistencies, and communicate findings clearly and objectively.

• Ability to effectively analyze and communicate legal and business issues across broad functional and organizational lines.

• Ability to maintain high-quality work while managing varied deadlines, competing priorities, and changing workload demands.

• Strong organizational, analytical, proofreading, editing, research, and matter-management skills.

• Strong oral and written communication skills and demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across functions and organizational levels.

• Self-starter who works well independently and contributes to a collaborative team environment by sharing knowledge, offering support, and owning shared goals, partnering with attorneys, management, business partners, subject matter experts, outside counsel, and staff.

• Demonstrated discretion, integrity, and sound judgment in safeguarding confidential, privileged, personal, technical, and business-sensitive information.

• Demonstrated digital fluency, including proficiency with Microsoft 365 and the ability to learn and effectively use new technologies and approved AI-enabled tools to improve professional workflows.

• Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset and ability to identify opportunities for simplification, standardization, automation, or elimination of non-value-added work.



Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting more than one legal practice area, business unit, or type of legal work.

• Experience supporting regulatory, technology, commercial, compliance, corporate governance, privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, or other cross-functional legal matters.

• Experience reviewing and summarizing legal, regulatory, technical, commercial, or business documents and information.

• Experience with matter-management, reporting, analytics, document-management, or collaboration technologies such as Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power BI, or comparable tools, including experience applying AI, automation, analytics, or process improvement solutions.

• Equivalent combinations of education, professional training, certifications, and relevant experience will be considered.



Overview:

This Legal Analyst position is part of Legal Services. The successful candidate will provide 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. Assignments may include support for Regulatory, Technology, Commercial, Corporate Governance, Compliance, and other legal matters and projects. The successful candidate must be able to perform delegated legal analyst tasks under the guidance and direction of attorneys and in partnership with fellow legal analysts, including the following below.



Duties:

• Provide adaptable legal support across different practice groups, matters, and projects, quickly learning new subject areas, processes, stakeholders, and systems as assignments change.

• 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 matter intake, organization, tracking, reporting, document management, and follow-up activities from assignment through completion.

• Coordinate with attorneys, business partners, subject matter experts, outside counsel, and staff to obtain information, address open items, and support timely delivery of legal services.

• Assist with regulatory, technology, commercial, compliance, governance, and other cross-functional legal matters and projects based on business needs.

• Identify relevant facts, issues, dependencies, deadlines, and potential risks, and escalate questions or concerns to the supervising attorney.

• Maintain accurate, complete, and timely information in approved matter-management systems, collaboration platforms, trackers, and repositories.

• Multi-task and prioritize work assignments to consistently provide high-quality work product while managing varied deadlines, competing priorities, and changing assignments.

• Exercise discretion, sound judgment, and professionalism when handling confidential, privileged, personal, technical, and business-sensitive information.

• Use approved technology, AI-enabled tools, automation, analytics, and digital solutions responsibly to improve legal analysis, matter management, reporting, and workflows.

• Recommend practical opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, or eliminate repetitive and non-value-added activities.

• Communicate clearly, simply, and directly, both in person and through virtual collaboration tools.



Assignment Deliverables:

1. Investigation intake and routing

2. Matter tracking and data accuracy

3. Reporting and governance support

4. Timely follow-up through matter closure

5. Process improvement, automation, and AI enablement

• **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**

• **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**