Associate, Legal Knowledge Engineering

Litera•Boston, MA

1d•$95,000 - $120,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Litera is seeking a lawyer to help build our legal products, leveraging their expertise to influence product direction and experiment with generative AI technology. The role involves collaborating with engineering teams to advise on legal workflows and contribute to creating positive client experiences for top law firms, professional service firms, and corporations. This is an opportunity to be part of a cutting-edge industry and a company making a significant impact in the legal field, within an environment that supports, acknowledges, and rewards contributions and expertise.

Requirements

Two or more years practicing in transactional law, ideally gained at a law firm, in house, or at a legal service provider.
A JD and have been called to the bar in at least one state/province.
Strong interest in legal technology and artificial intelligence.
Strong client service skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to learn new technologies quickly and not intimidated by trying something new.
Extraordinary attention to detail and highly organized.
Relentless and a creative problem solver with exceptional analytical skills.
Strong time management skills and ability to successfully juggle multiple priorities.
Highly responsible, self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision.
Empathy with people and a proactive approach to finding solutions.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in debt financing is an asset.
Experience with legal operations, legal program management, and/or contract management systems is an asset.

Responsibilities

Working on one or more of Litera's legal software products to find information clients seek in documents.
Experimenting with prompting an LLM from within the product and/or teaching the product, Kira, by highlighting information in diverse sets of documents.
Working with product/engineering/design teams to ensure new features are defined and brought to completion with proper legal workflows in mind.
Helping to set the vision for new legal tech products and features within Kira and the rest of Litera.
Experimenting and testing Generative AI to ensure products are built to the best of their capabilities.
Developing new “smart fields” (machine learning algorithms that can find information) and data points for documents relating to securities and/or financing transactions.
Maintaining a thorough understanding of developments in the legal domain and continuously identifying new opportunities to build smart fields.
Identifying opportunities to improve processes, gain efficiencies, and share best practices.