Research Analyst

Role information

• Hybrid workplace - 3 days a week in office, 2 days remote
• This role is based in Leeds (Aire Street)
• Working hours are 11am to 7pm
• The salary for this role is £26,500 per annum

Legal 500 was founded by John Pritchard in 1987 as the original clients’ guide to law firms, the first of its kind. It is now a data-driven, AI-optimised research platform which benchmarks, informs and connects providers and users of legal services in over 100 countries worldwide.

Our research and data are trusted and relied upon by corporate clients globally as an essential part of the process, both of instructing law firms with new mandates, and when reviewing existing mandates or panels.

We exist to empower both buyers and sellers in the international legal marketplace to make better decisions and have improved outcomes for their organisations. This is achieved by leveraging a trusted, comprehensive research process with a unique, vast, proprietary and constantly updated set of client-supplied data, unrivalled in the market.

On the supply side of the legal market, every year Legal 500’s team of over 150 researchers, technologists, data analysts, journalists and content specialists collate and review 60,000+ data-submissions from law firms and conduct interviews with thousands of leading law firm partners. On the demand side, Legal 500 analyses confidential data from 300,000+ commercial law firm clients to benchmark law firms and lawyers by practice area;

industry; jurisdiction; as well as by proprietary client satisfaction metrics, NPS®, and other qualitative and quantitative criteria.

Legal 500 is the only source of this depth of global research and data on law firms, lawyers and their clients.

Research analysts are at the centre of our interaction with firms and the market, conducting comprehensive research into the legal market to benchmark law firms. The role involves interviewing lawyers and assessing quantitative and qualitative data to produce accurate rankings and insightful editorial content.

We are looking for people who have an excellent command of spoken and written English and must be able to manage time effectively and work to deadlines. Knowledge of the legal sector is preferable but not essential. Much of the law covered by the Legal 500 guides around the world is commercial so an interest in business and the City would be helpful.

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• Gathering details of law firms  recent work, through the collection of written submissions and interviews with senior-level lawyers
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data to accurately assess and benchmark firms by practice area and country
• Apply rankings methodology consistently and accurately
• Maintain live documents of ranking notes documenting decisions made for firms and individual lawyers and the rationale, applying the methodology consistently
• Write comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the leading law firms in certain key practice areas
• Build rapport / relationship with law firms at BD and partner level
• Own your own workload to meet staggered and final deadlines for interviews, rankings and editorials

• Professional and confident approach to speaking with external senior decision-makers at major law firms
• Excellent written communication skills
• An energetic self-starter
• Ability to build relationships across the business with internal stakeholders
• Highly organised with exceptional planning skills and the ability to manage work to deadline
• Adaptable to change
• Comfortable working independently