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.

Interested applicants are invited to append a cover letter to their resume submissions.

• 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…