Senior Research Analyst

At K&L Gates, we are looking for smart, imaginative and hard-working people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas to join us. Perhaps our search for talented visionaries and your search for important and impactful work lead to the same place.

K&L Gates is seeking a skilled Senior Research Analyst with Intellectual Property research expertise to join our global Research & Information Team. The Senior Research Analyst provides the firm’s lawyers and allied professionals with high-quality legal, business, and public records research, as well as training and research consultation services. The successful candidate demonstrates excellent communication skills, a commitment to providing high-quality customer service and work products, and is a self-starter who possesses the ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Ideal applicants are proactive problem-solvers with strong research and critical thinking skills, technological fluency, and the ability to prioritize billable workflow, while managing multiple research projects simultaneously.

• This position works a Monday through Friday schedule from 9:00 am – 5:30 pm Eastern Time.
• Position can be fully remote.
• Applicants must reside in one of the states in which K&L Gates operates, and be within commuting distance.

The Senior Research Analyst provides legal and non-legal research services, analysis and training instruction to all K&L Gates lawyers and allied professionals.

This position is part of the Research & Information Department, situated across multiple offices, and works collaboratively to serve lawyers and allied professionals across K&L Gates’ global platform. This position reports directly to the Senior Manager, Research Services, with additional oversight and advisement provided by the Team Lead, Senior Research Analysts.

• Provide expert-level research and consultative services to lawyers and allied professionals across multiple time zones via a centralized ticketing system, conducting reference interviews as needed and demonstrating strong professional communication skills.
  • Conduct legal, business, and public records research using government and subscription resources, such as Lexis, Westlaw, Vital Law, Bloomberg Law, S&P’s Capital IQ, D&B Hoovers, Orbis, Case Portal, TLOxp and Experian. Experience with specialized, practice-specific databases like Intelligize, Pitchbook, Derwent Innovation and Docket Navigator is appreciated.
  • Evaluate diverse information sources for currency, reliability, relevance and cost-effectiveness, and select the optimal resources for particular research requests. Present clear, logically organized and readily-digestible results, integrating findings into final work products that are responsive to the question(s) asked, in a timely manner.
  • Exercise good judgment and accountability in prioritizing billable workflow and either meeting or communicating effectively around deadlines.
• Critically engage with new technologies, such as Generative AI tools, when appropriate.
• Appropriately scope, research, and respond to complex legal, corporate, industry, and client-related research requests.
• Lead research strategy for all queries that require expert-level analysis and/or require some level of project management, such as defining project objectives, scope, deliverables and/or the coordination of multiple team members.
• Provide and implement current awareness and litigation alerting, particularly as part of firm’s industry sector and business development initiatives.
• Develop and maintain a keen understanding of the information needs, workflow, and preferences of users and stakeholders in order to support and improve ease of access to information.
• Actively liaise and communicate with selected practice and industry groups to develop subject expertise and facilitate better and more proactive service delivery. This includes synthesizing practice group feedback into the development of new library service offerings and/or the acquisition or cancelation of related information resources.
• Serve as a subject matter expert by designing and delivering presentations, training…