Baker McKenzie

The Market Strategy & Analytics Team Intern will support with analyzing large data sources and developing deliverables that help firm partners and leadership make strategic decisions at global and regional levels. We are seeking an Industrial Engineering student in their final semester, looking for an internship, who is passionate about data analysis, business strategy, and innovation.

Main responsibilities:

Project support: 

• To support ongoing Strategy and Business Analytics projects globally and in the Americas region
• Assist in the assessment and review of our current business shape to help investigate which legal teams, markets or industries we should prioritize and invest further in the near future
• Help Partners understand which clients they should direct their efforts to and what level of returns may be expected by doing so
• Assist Partners in specific client initiatives to help bring new customers and mandates to the Firm
• Assist in the creation of new operational process improvements, Management Information solutions or data modelling/scoring systems across various practices and functions
• Ad-hoc support on creating presentations, graphics and reports for various senior stakeholders while also being able to comment and present the final output to the customers
• Research support to meet strategic targeting and business development requirements, leveraging external financial information databases, legal and macro-economic reports to help provide market context to the Firm and our clients
• Collaborate on projects involving legal and non-legal technology providers to help the team develop cutting-edge and innovative solutions (including sentiment analyses, machine learning, etc.)
• Advocate the use of effective decision-making techniques and efficiency-enhancing behaviors, including Business Analytics, Pricing, Legal Project Management and Legal AI in your various interventions
• Contribute to the development of the Strategy & Analytics team by improving how we work and share knowledge

Technical support: 

• Analyse historical and real-time data to create summaries supporting the decision-making of senior leadership and Partners
• Use statistical methods to identify meaningful relationships among seemingly unrelated and sometimes unstructured sets of data
• Support the development of a foundational enterprise data analytics platform by studying business and information needs, conferring with users, studying system data flow, data usage patterns, and work processes, and investigating problem areas
• Gather data from multiple sources and assimilate into meaningful inputs for Firm databases
• Continually validate data sources and ensure data grouping and mapping are accurate and clean
• Create ad-hoc solutions to business problems, including automating manual processes by using VBA, SQL, Tableau, Tableau Prep, Python, Power Pivots and the full suite of Microsoft Office applications

Skills and experience:

Academic Requirements:

• Currently enrolled in the following courses and academic profiles, and have very good academic records:
  • Mandatory Courses:
    • Applied Statistics and Data Analytics
    • Operations Research and Decision Sciences
    • Financial Engineering
  • Recommended Elective Profiles:
    • Data Analytics
    • Decision Sciences
    • Financial Engineering

Duration:  Duration of 6 months from January to July 2026

Reports to:  Senior Manager, Market Strategy & Analytics

At Baker McKenzie we are different in the way we think, work and behave. With our team of 13,000 people, including over 6,500 locally admitted lawyers, in over 70 offices worldwide, we have a passionately collaborative community of 60 nationalities and are committed to world-class career development to everyone in every job at every level. Baker McKenzie can offer you both the uncompromising commitment to excellence expected of a top firm paired with a passionately global and genuinely collaborative working environment.

Baker McKenzie is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion for all. Our unique international culture is reflected in the drawing together of a worldwide family of individuals from diverse cultures and backgrounds in all of our offices. We encourage the best people - regardless of race, religion or belief if any, gender, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation or age - to fulfill their professional aspirations with us. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates.