Class Action Data Analyst
Established in 1979, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP (“Lewis Brisbois”) is a national, full-service law firm with nearly 1,600 attorneys and 53 offices in 30 states. We are listed among the prestigious AmLaw 100 and ranked 7th in the Law360 400 list of the nation’s largest law firms. As a result of rapid growth and expansion, we have an outstanding opportunity
the opportunity for an experienced Data Analyst to join the firm’s Wage and Hour Class Action Practice Group in downtown Los Angeles. We offer an excellent rewards package that includes competitive compensation, medical, dental and life insurance, vacation and sick pay, as well as a wide range of voluntary benefits.
Data Analysts are responsible for providing internal and client facing analytic and data visualization solutions. This position will perform a number of duties, including developing processes and techniques to extract data from a variety sources, determining how best to analyze the data, and generating descriptive and statistical analysis on the data, including regression and classification analyses. This position requires prior experience providing analytical support to a litigation team preferably in the employment litigation context.
Essential Functions
- Perform analysis related to a number of employment-specific project types, including wage and hour damages analysis, pay equity, reduction-in-force, employment discrimination, and other litigation-related exposure or damages models
- Locate the necessary data sources, extract and convert raw, sometimes discordant data into structured files ready for analysis, verify data integrity, run preliminary descriptive analyses, and finalize documents and data for production
- Manipulate, clean, analyze, and refine data using a variety of tools including Excel, R, Python, and other software tools
- Create dashboards and other data visualizations to help drive insights and tell the story of the analysis
- Develop and document processes and techniques used to extract, clean, and analyze data
- Daily interaction with attorneys, clients and users, including presenting findings and summaries of analyses as well collaborating to create data-driven solutions to improve their workflows or processes
- An interest in workforce/people analytics and leveraging data to assist clients with creating more efficient, productive workforces through predictive analytics
- Manage your projects and work with minimal direction to ensure that deadlines are met and relevant stakeholders are kept in the loop
- Assist other team members as needed to ensure that exceptional work product is delivered consistently and in a timely fashion
Job Requirements:
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, or other quantitative field or a Bachelor’s degree in another field and equivalent work experience in a quantitative capacity
- At least 1-3 years’ experience as a data analyst or business data analyst providing support for employment litigation, including for class action, discrimination, wage and hour, pay equity, reduction-in-force, and PAGA claims
- Expert-level Excel skills and familiarity with MS Office suite
- Significant experience using statistical packages for analyzing large datasets (e.g. R, SAS, STATA, SPSS, etc.)
- Significant experience extracting, analyzing, cleaning, and interpreting client tine and payroll data in a variety of forms
- Significant experience generating and evaluating exposure analyses based on a variety of underlying damages models
- Experience with Python, Tableau, Power BI, or other data visualization platform
- Knowledge of SQL and comfortable querying databases
- Comfortable interacting with attorneys and clients and taking on prominent role related to data, including presenting the results of your analysis to clients and stakeholders
- Ability to explain complicated analysis and processes in terms that are understandable to non-experts both orally and in writing
- Perform with minimal direction and follow up independently and on own initiative
- Team player, customer service focused, and adept at multi-tasking and prioritization
- Initiative and problem-solving abilities with a focus on building it better and continuous improvement
- Keen interest in technology and innovation, and ability to quickly learn new platforms
MORE ABOUT LEWIS BRISBOIS:
We offer legal practice in more than 40 specialties and a multitude of subspecialties associated with each practice area. Our national practice is sophisticated, multi-faceted, and well versed in current legal trends, while our individual state practices provide vast resources and knowledge of procedural and legal nuances. Lewis Brisbois is known for its commitment to principled advocacy, an unflinching work ethic, and unyielding recognition of our duty to provide the highest level of service to our clients, who choose us because we take the time to understand their business interests and philosophies. The same service standards are also the objective for our functional and staff professional departments. Diversity is also an integral part of our culture and daily life, and Lewis Brisbois has repeatedly received national recognition for our commitment to embracing diversity.
Lewis Brisbois is committed to equal employment opportunity in hiring, employment and promotion decisions. Lewis Brisbois seeks to employ and advance the best qualified employee without regard to race, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), denial of family and medical care leave, sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, veteran or military status, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or membership in any other protected classes recognized by federal or applicable state or local law.
All candidates should submit a resume and cover letter (indicating what position and office location you are applying for) to: William.Sung@lewisbrisbois.com. Please no recruiters and no phone inquiries regarding this posting.