Legal Analyst

Strategic Staffing Solutions; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 69,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Staffing Solutions, Inc. seeks a Legal Analyst in Houston to provide flexible legal support across practice groups and locations.

You will assist with regulatory, governance, technology, and commercial matters under attorney direction, preparing and organizing documents, researching complex issues, and ensuring timely matter management. The role requires strong analytical and communication skills, proficiency with Microsoft 365, and the ability to work independently within a

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in legal support, regulatory, or related areas.
• Ability to support multiple matters, learn quickly, and adapt to changing processes and systems.
• Strong research, document review, proofreading, editing, and analytical skills.
• Experience maintaining accurate records and coordinating follow-up activities.
• Proven ability to communicate complex legal issues clearly to attorneys and stakeholders.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and willingness to adopt new collaboration tools.
• Experience with matter-management or document-management systems is a plus.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to manage shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide flexible legal support across practice groups, business areas, and locations.
• Support regulatory, technology, commercial, governance, compliance, and other matters under attorney direction.
• Prepare, review, revise, and organize legal documents using templates and guidance.
• Analyze and summarize legal, regulatory, and business information for attorneys.
• Conduct legal research and prepare concise summaries of findings.
• Assist with matter intake, tracking, reporting, and document management.
• Coordinate with attorneys, business partners, and outside counsel to obtain information.
• Identify risks, deadlines, and dependencies; escalate as appropriate.
• Maintain accurate data in matter-management systems and repositories.
• Utilize Microsoft 365 and AI-enabled tools to improve workflows and reporting.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, automate, and improve processes.
• Provide investigation intake and routing, governance support, and timely follow-up.

Skills

Legal support

Regulatory analysis

Document review

Research skills

Microsoft 365

Communication

Time management

Cross-functional collaboration

AI-enabled tools

Security awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree or paralegal certificate or higher

Tools

SharePoint

Power BI

Document-management platforms

AI-enabled legal tools

Job description

Job Title: Legal Analyst

Location: Houston, TX

Duration: 12 Months
Pay Rate: $50 - $60/HR (W2 Only)

Job/Role Description:

• This role provides flexible legal support as a collaborative member of the Legal Services team across multiple practice groups, business areas, and locations based on workload, priorities, and organizational needs.
• Support regulatory, technology, commercial, corporate governance, compliance, and other legal matters and projects under the guidance and direction of attorneys.
• Prepare, review, revise, and organize legal and business documents using approved templates, guidance, and attorney direction.
• Analyze and summarize legal, regulatory, technical, commercial, and business information for review by attorneys and authorized stakeholders.
• Conduct legal and factual research and prepare clear, concise, and objective summaries of findings.
• Support legal matter intake, organization, tracking, reporting, document management, and follow-up activities through completion.
• Coordinate with attorneys, business partners, subject matter experts, outside counsel, and staff to obtain information, resolve outstanding items, and support timely delivery of legal services.
• Assist with regulatory, technology, commercial, compliance, governance, and other cross-functional legal matters based on business needs.
• Identify relevant facts, issues, dependencies, deadlines, and potential risks, escalating concerns to supervising attorneys as appropriate.
• Maintain accurate and timely information in matter-management systems, collaboration platforms, trackers, and document repositories.
• Manage multiple assignments, competing priorities, and changing deadlines while consistently delivering high-quality work.
• Handle confidential, privileged, personal, technical, and business-sensitive information with discretion and professionalism.
• Utilize Microsoft 365, approved AI-enabled tools, automation, analytics, and digital solutions to improve legal analysis, matter management, reporting, and workflows.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and improve legal processes and eliminate repetitive tasks.
• Provide investigation intake and routing, matter tracking, reporting, governance support, and timely follow-up through matter closure.
• Communicate effectively with attorneys, management, business partners, and cross-functional teams.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in legal support, regulatory matters, technology-related matters, commercial transactions, compliance, corporate governance, matter management, complex document review, or comparable work.
• Demonstrated ability to support multiple legal matters, quickly learn new subject areas, and adapt to changing assignments, processes, and systems.
• Experience analyzing complex legal and business information, identifying relevant facts, issues, gaps, and inconsistencies, and communicating findings clearly.
• Strong legal and factual research, document review, proofreading, editing, and analytical skills.
• Experience managing legal matters, tracking assignments, maintaining accurate records, and coordinating follow-up activities.
• Ability to analyze and communicate legal and business issues across multiple functional and organizational areas.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to prioritize multiple assignments and meet competing deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with attorneys, management, business partners, subject matter experts, outside counsel, and staff.
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively in a collaborative, team-oriented environment.
• Demonstrated discretion, integrity, and sound judgment when handling confidential, privileged, and sensitive information.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and the ability to learn and utilize new technologies, collaboration platforms, and approved AI-enabled tools.
• Strong problem‑solving abilities, attention to detail, and commitment to producing accurate, high‑quality work.
• Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, standardization, and workflow efficiency.
• Self‑motivated, adaptable, and capable of managing changing workloads and priorities in a fast‑paced professional environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting multiple legal practice areas, business units, or different types of legal matters.
• Experience supporting regulatory, technology, commercial, compliance, corporate governance, privacy, cybersecurity, or intellectual property matters.
• Experience reviewing, analyzing, and summarizing legal, regulatory, technical, commercial, and business documents.
• Experience with legal matter-management systems, document-management platforms, reporting tools, and collaboration technologies.
• Experience with Microsoft SharePoint, Power BI, analytics, automation, or AI-enabled tools to improve legal workflows and reporting.
• Experience supporting investigation intake, matter tracking, governance reporting, and matter closure processes.
• Experience identifying and implementing legal operations process improvements.
• Bachelor's degree, paralegal certificate, law degree, or other relevant education or professional training preferred.
• Equivalent combinations of education, professional training, certifications, and relevant experience will be considered.