Practice Innovation Analyst

Katten is a full-service law firm with approximately 700 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai. Clients seeking sophisticated, high-value legal services turn to Katten for counsel locally, nationally and internationally. The firm’s core areas of practice include corporate, financial markets and funds, insolvency and restructuring, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, structured finance and securitization, transactional tax planning, private credit and private wealth.

Katten represents public and private companies in numerous industries, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals.

Nearly 50 years ago, 24 attorneys in Chicago had a vision to create a law firm more innovative and entrepreneurial than those they had left. Their inspiration was their clients and finding even better ways to provide superb legal services and creative advice to them. Our business has evolved over the decades—but our vision remains the same. Today, Katten Muchin Rosenman is the full-service, business-oriented law firm that our founders envisioned, providing sophisticated, high-value legal services across the United States and abroad.

Our innovation team maintains that vision by exploring new process and technology solutions to modernize our client service delivery and firm operations. We infuse business design, technology, and data science into the practice of law. Under the direction of the Practice innovation Advisor, the Practice Innovation Analyst will play an active role by supporting ongoing implementations of emerging technologies throughout the firm and will be encouraged to think big to identify new opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our legal teams.

This position requires hands‑on work with Katten lawyers, business professionals and key external partners with both projects and brainstorming efforts. The Practice Innovation Advisor will be responsible for project work on initiatives around the firm, as well as, gathering research, insights, trends, and best practices from the legal profession and helping us determine the problem sets of the firm where we could apply solutions.

The Practice Innovation Analyst position can be located in the Chicago or New York office. Katten offers a hybrid work model, allowing the flexibility to work both on‑site and remotely on a regular basis (Katten Flex).

• Collaborate with lawyers, clients, firm leadership, and operational teams, including Practice Operations, Talent, Information Technology, Marketing and Business Development, and Accounting and Finance, to grow the firm’s culture of innovation and improve the practice of law.
• Work with attorney teams, clients, and practice groups to deliver innovative client solutions and legal technologies that support the efficient management of legal matters.
• Maintain a current awareness of emerging technology tools (both generally and among law firms and legal departments) to ensure that the firm stays ahead of the curve.
• Research and evaluate tools and procedures that promote productivity and service quality.
• Develop and maintain clear and accessible training materials, user guides, and communications that support the firm’s innovation initiatives and help attorneys and business professionals adopt emerging technologies and process improvements.
• Partner with our data science team, Katten DataLAB, to find solutions to client challenges and needs.
• Build and maintain relationships with existing and potential vendors to coordinate updates of existing platforms and to identify/vet potential new platforms.
• Implement new processes, including working to integrate software in our solutions for attorneys and practice groups.
• Support team governance and operational efficiency by assisting with documentation, workflow tracking, project intake, and other processes that ensure smooth and consistent execution of innovation priorities.
• Play an active role in the coordination and execution of software pilot programs by identifying and testing use cases, scheduling trainings, gathering feedback, conducting gap…