Position Description

Research Analysts work on teams with economists, consultants, and experts on a wide variety of assignments in many industries. This affords Research Analysts not only the opportunity to expand their experience and knowledge into many industries, fields, and methods of analysis, but also the opportunity to work side-by-side with colleagues who are renowned experts in their field.

This Research Analyst position is demanding and offers many intellectual challenges. The responsibilities of a Research Analyst include the collection, synthesis, and analysis of financial and economic data and academic research; the creation and programming of spreadsheets, databases, charts, and graphs; and the development of regression and other statistical analyses.

Major Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains electronic databases and spreadsheets
  
• Organizes case documents; creates and maintains hard copy and electronic libraries for documents and retrieves documents from libraries as necessary.
  
• Performs detailed research; gathers literature and data from client databases public and commercial databases, and specialized industry resources; reviews and summarizes relevant case data.
  
• Prepares technical written work product and presentation materials including graphs, charts, and summaries of third party or other literature (affidavits, reports, trade press, etc).
  
• Performs computer modeling, including the development of detailed and complex spreadsheets.
  
• Audits own work product and work product of others to assure quality.
  
• Understands rules of discovery.  Prepares for, and responds to, discovery requests.
  
• Creates and organizes binders of critical source documents.
  
• Prepares time and expense reports according to LECG policy.
  
• Participates in practice group or office meetings.
  
• Performs other tasks as assigned by the case manager.
  
• Working outside normal business hours is expected and travel may be necessary.
  
• Previous experience is a plus

Education

Experience

• 0-2 years of related experience.

Other

• Ability to gather information from discovery documents, depositions, public sources, databases and trade press; summarize these materials either visually or in writing; and explain these materials to other team members.
  
• Ability to gather data and other types of information from discovery documents, depositions, public sources, databases and trade press, summarize these materials either visually or in writing, and explain these materials to other members of his or her case teams.
  
• High standards for work quality and attention to detail.
  
• Ability to work well under pressure.
  
• Prior experience through internships or full time employment in economic or academic research, or financial or consulting services is preferred.

Compensation and Benefits

LECG offers a competitive compensation and benefits package which includes Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, 401(k), Tuition Reimbursement, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Benefit, and Employee Assistance Program. 

How to Apply

Please apply online (preferred) 

LECG is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.