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.

Data Scientist

Under the direction of the Chief Innovation Officer and the Senior Innovation and Data Science Manager, and according to established firm policies and procedures, the Data Scientist is responsible for collecting, managing, analyzing and visualizing data to develop innovative and efficient solutions at the Firm. The Data Scientist assists with creating business cases and will collect, combine and clean data as needed and performs visualization and other analysis. The Data Scientist utilizes machine learning and other natural language processing to develop innovative solutions. In this position, the Data Scientist interacts with a wide variety of people, including partners, executives, vendors and clients. The Data Scientist maintains professionalism and strict confidentiality in all client and Firm matters.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include, but may not be limited to, the following. Other duties may be requested and/or assigned. Essential functions are primary job duties that an individual must be able to perform successfully with or without a reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Collaborate with lawyers, business professional teams and Firm leadership to effectuate data science projects given available resources, priorities, and Firm objectives.
• Work client projects through the firm's data science team, DataLAB.
• Work as part of a team, or independently, to execute projects under the direction of the Chief Innovation Officer.
• Write code to automate data processing and generate insights.
• Perform exploratory data analysis.
• Apply machine learning to develop predictive models, statistical techniques to test and generate hypotheses.
• Research complex business issues and recommend solutions.
• Develop data-driven root-cause analyses, with a focus on the organizational impact
• Manipulate and analyze large data sets using industry standard tools and techniques. Extract quantitative and qualitative findings from large data sets.
• Support development of AI and LMM-based tools for internal and client-facing applications.
• Prepares documentation, reports, and visualizations to present to senior management at the Firm.
• Tests new technologies, tools, and data.
• Keeps up-to-date on new technologies, standards and practices.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• A Bachelor’s degree in data science, statistics, computer science, engineering, applied mathematics or a similar quantitative analytics field is required; an Advanced degree will be considered. The ideal candidate would also have one or more years of work experience and/or formal training in emerging legal technologies, process improvement, design thinking and/or data science.
• Experienced, or have familiarity, with some or all of the following:
• Basic data science tools: Python (including Pandas, NLTK), SQL, Power BI
• Basic data science concepts: probability, statistics, hypothesis testing, machine learning, data visualization
• Big data tools: Azure, cloud platforms, etc.
• Displays intelligence, creativity, resilience, and persistence in solving varied, complex, and non-routine problems.
• Comfortable working both independently and in diverse teams.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills. Ability to communicate with courtesy and diplomacy, efficiently follow written and verbal instructions, provide information, and maintain effective relationships with a diverse group of attorneys, clients, staff, and outside contacts.
• Displays excellent time management and project management skills to meet objectives and deadlines.
• Able to effectively distill complex information, synthesize, simplify, and present to Firm Management, attorneys, and business professionals.
• Possess excellent reading, writing, grammar, spelling, punctuation, proofreading, and formatting skills in order to interpret and analyze source data, prepare correspondence and documentation, and proofread material for grammatical, typographical and spelling errors.
• Able to perform mathematical calculations and apply mathematical concepts when computing, reconciling balances, verifying numerical data, and preparing various reports.
• Able to operate standard office equipment including computers, printers, telephones, photocopiers, scanners, calculators, facsimiles, etc.
• Able to regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

In our Chicago office, the annualized salary range for this position starts at $70,000. Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law.

Katten will consider for employment qualified Applicants with Criminal Histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of Article 9 to Chapter XVII of the Los Angeles Municipal Code.

We offer an outstanding benefit package which includes: medical/dental/vision, 401k with employer contribution, parental leave, transportation fringe benefit program, back-up care option, generous paid time off policy and long-term and short-term disability policies.

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP in an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.