Pacesetter Research Analyst and Innovation Liaison

About the role

Pacesetter Research is a research and intelligence team dedicated to studying how the legal world—law firms, legal departments, and third-party players like legaltech, ASLPs, and etc.—are adapting to rapidly-changing market environments. In short, the Pacesetter Research team is dedicated to studying the role of innovation in law, but not just any innovation: we’re looking for innovation that has a measurable impact for key stakeholders. This term, “innovation,” is often conflated with merely adopting new, advanced technologies but we look across firm management, client relationship management, service delivery, and talent strategy. How do we do this? We approach innovation through a combination of primary research, proprietary data collection, executive interviews, and market analysis, in the process identifying the innovations, business strategies, and operating models shaping the future of law. Our mission is to generate actionable insights that inform key decision-makers across legal markets.

The Law.com Pacesetter Research team is seeking a highly analytical and intellectually curious Research Analyst to join our team. This role combines primary research, secondary research, data analysis, data management, and thought leadership development focused on the evolving legal industry. There is also an important part of this role which involves working closely with other, adjacent teams on research projects and presentations. The successful candidate will conduct executive interviews, analyze survey and market data, maintain a database of proprietary data, evaluate business and technology trends, and help produce original research for publication through Law.com Compass and other industry channels. The analyst will contribute to major research initiatives led by senior analysts while also owning portions