Job Description

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The Legal Data Analyst – Privacy, Cyber & AI supports Troutman Pepper Locke’s Privacy + Cyber and Regulatory Investigations, Strategy + Enforcement (RISE) practice groups by building and maintaining a comprehensive Privacy Litigation & State Attorney General Enforcement Tracker, among other strategic responsibilities.

The Legal Data Analyst – Privacy, Cyber & AI sits at the intersection of substantive privacy, cyber, & AI law; data analysis; and generative AI. The Legal Data Analyst – Privacy, Cyber & AI reviews and classifies litigation and enforcement materials, validates AI-generated outputs, and converts unstructured information into accurate, structured data and practical insights that attorneys can rely on in client-facing work. The Legal Data Analyst – Privacy, Cyber & AI combines high‑judgment legal analysis with detail‑intensive, sometimes repetitive validation and data cleanup.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Review and interpret privacy, cybersecurity, and AI-related litigation and enforcement materials (e.g., complaints, class actions, AG releases, settlements, regulatory guidance).

• Identify and code key elements for the Tracker, including causes of action, statutes invoked, factual themes, jurisdiction, parties, and procedural posture.

• Classify matters into clear categories reflecting core privacy legal issues (e.g., wiretapping/recording, data breach litigation, intrusion upon seclusion, consumer privacy, trap and trace, malfunctioning cookie consent, AI/automated decision-making, etc.).

• Collaborate with practice leadership and the Data Solutions team to define and refine Tracker fields, taxonomies, and coding rules.

• Use generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) to run structured prompt workflows that extract data from unstructured text.

• Validate AI-generated outputs against source documents; identify and correct hallucinations, misclassifications, missing data, and inaccurate descriptions.

• Maintain clean, consistent datasets by deduplicating records, standardizing entity names, and applying uniform coding conventions.

• Verify citations and URLs, confirming that links are functional, accurate, and traceable to authoritative sources (e.g., dockets, AG and agency sites, research platforms).

• Support development and maintenance of Tracker reporting (e.g., Power BI dashboards, Excel-based reports) that surface litigation and enforcement trends for attorneys and clients.

• Document processes, coding guidance, validation checklists, and prompt templates to support consistency, scaling, and handoff.

• Maintain the confidentiality of firm and client information and comply with firm policies and procedures.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated familiarity with privacy, cybersecurity, data protection, and/or AI-related legal issues (through practice, research, or focused academic work).

• Ability to read, interpret, and succinctly summarize complaints, court orders, AG actions, settlements, and regulatory guidance.

• Strong analytical judgment and issue-spotting skills, including the ability to determine how matters should be categorized within a structured tracker.

• High attention to detail and willingness to perform repetitive, detail-heavy validation and data-cleaning tasks.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel (e.g., filters, formulas, sorting, basic data validation and cleanup); ability to manage structured datasets accurately.

• Strong organizational and documentation skills; ability to follow and maintain consistent coding standards and clearly explain decisions in writing.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present findings clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to serve as a bridge between attorneys and technical teams, translating legal questions into structured data and turning data back into clear, practice-relevant insights.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree; J.D., M.B.A., or M.L.S. preferred.

• Directly relevant experience in privacy, cybersecurity, data protection, AI law, legal research, or legal data analytics.

• Minimum of two (2) years of relevant experience in privacy, cybersecurity, data protection, or AI-related legal practice (e.g., attorney, staff attorney, law clerk); paralegal, law librarian, research or knowledge management attorney, litigation support, or analyst role supporting privacy/cyber or regulatory work; and/or legal data, legal operations, or legal technology roles involving structured matter, docket, or enforcement tracking.

• Familiarity with legal research platforms (e.g., Westlaw, Lexis, CasePortal, PACER) and Boolean search strategies.

• Exposure to key privacy and cybersecurity frameworks and statutes (e.g., CCPA/CPRA and state analogs, BIPA and other biometric laws, state wiretapping/recording statutes, data breach notification laws, emerging AI regimes).

• Experience with, or interest in developing skills in Power BI or other business intelligence tools for dashboards and reporting; SQL for querying and validating data; Python (e.g., pandas) or similar tools for data processing and automation.

• Experience using generative AI tools beyond casual use (e.g., for research, extraction, summarization or analysis), with a skeptical, validation-focused approach to AI output.

#LI-Hybrid

The Firm will comply with any applicable city or state workplace mandates in effect in regards to Covid-19.

This position description is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of the job. The statements contained in the position description are not necessarily all-inclusive and additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned as determined by business needs.

This position description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

By applying for this position, you agree and understand that Troutman Pepper Locke will process your Personal Information pursuant to the terms of our Worker and Applicant Global Privacy Notice If you have questions about our data handling practices, or you are a resident of California, the United Kingdom, or the European Union and wish to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us at privacy@troutman.com

Equal Employment Opportunity
Troutman Pepper Locke adheres to a policy of equal opportunity and will make all employment decisions, which include hiring, promotion, transfer, demotion, evaluation, compensation and separation, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy, citizenship, disability, genetic information, marital or armed forces status and any other classification as protected by law.

Compensation is dependent on several factors, such as position, location, market, education, training, and/or experience.

Hiring Salary Range:

$85,000.00 - $125,000.00