Data Analyst
Role Overview
The proposed Data Analyst role supports processing, organizing, validating, and analyzing complex datasets for eDiscovery, litigation support, and investigations.
The analyst collaborates with data processing specialists, project managers, and litigation support teams to assess data quality, identify patterns, prepare reports, and support information review workflows.
Accuracy, confidentiality, and careful documentation are important when handling potentially sensitive legal information.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The proposed Data Analyst role supports processing, organizing, validating, and analyzing complex datasets for eDiscovery, litigation support, and investigations.
The analyst collaborates with data processing specialists, project managers, and litigation support teams to assess data quality, identify patterns, prepare reports, and support information review workflows.
Accuracy, confidentiality, and careful documentation are important when handling potentially sensitive legal information.
Responsibilities
- Collect, organize, clean, and analyze datasets from multiple sources; validate accuracy, completeness, consistency, and formatting.
- Use spreadsheets, SQL queries, and analysis tools to investigate discrepancies; prepare reports, summaries, and visualizations.
- Identify trends, anomalies, duplicates, and processing issues; support eDiscovery collection, processing, review, and production.
- Investigate import, conversion, and extraction issues with technical teams; document methods, validation checks, and findings.
- Assist with quality assurance, handle confidential client information, coordinate priorities and deadlines, and recommend process improvements.
Required skills and experience
- Experience in data analysis, data processing, reporting, or a related technical role; strong analytical thinking and attention to detail.
- Proficiency with Excel, including sorting, filtering, formulas, and data validation; familiarity with SQL and relational database concepts.
- Ability to clean, organize, compare, and interpret large datasets; strong problem-solving and data quality assurance skills.
- Ability to document findings, communicate results clearly, manage time and organization, and handle confidential information responsibly.
- Willingness to learn eDiscovery tools and legal data workflows.
Preferred skills
- Preferred: eDiscovery, litigation support, or legal technology experience; familiarity with data processing and document review platforms.
- Preferred: Python or other scripting tools; Power BI, Tableau, or similar reporting tools.
- Preferred: knowledge of metadata, file formats, extraction, conversion, quality control, or chain-of-custody documentation.
- Preferred: experience working with large datasets in deadline-driven project environments.
About D4 Discovery
D4 Discovery provides eDiscovery, digital forensics, information governance, and litigation support services to law firms and corporate legal departments.
Its services support identifying, preserving, collecting, processing, analyzing, reviewing, and producing electronically stored information for legal matters and investigations.
The description says the company has operated in Rochester, New York, and maintained offices in other U.S. locations, including Buffalo.
Pay and benefits
- The description lists pay of $60,000–$80,000 per year, while identifying the range as an unconfirmed planning estimate.
- Listed benefits include a 401(k) with 2% match, relocation assistance, and visa sponsorship.
Workplace and location
- The description lists work location as in person and gives Buffalo, New York, as the location, while asking that the specific office and work location be confirmed.
Verification note
The description identifies this as a proposed job description, not confirmation of an active vacancy; it asks that the opening, employer identity, work location, salary, employment type, and qualifications be verified.
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