Innovation Attorney, SAGE

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP•Any US Office, UNAVAILABLE

13d•Remote

About The Position

Orrick is seeking an Innovation Attorney for its Strategic Advisory and Government Enforcement (SAGE) business unit. This role will support the firm's innovation efforts to enhance legal service delivery through people, process, and technology. The position is part of the Innovation team and requires collaboration across offices, practice groups, and departments. The role reports to the Managing Director of Practice Innovation and works closely with the SAGE business unit leadership.

Requirements

Juris doctorate (J.D.) from an accredited university or college and admission to practice in good standing in a US jurisdiction required.
Minimum of six (6) years of experience as a litigation, regulatory, transactional or legislative policy attorney in a large law firm.
Superior written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present complex ideas to attorneys, managers, clients, and the public in layman’s terms.
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization and/or specific direction exists.
Familiarity with best practices and technology to manage workflows, documents and communications.
Understanding of the importance and relevance of knowledge management, practice and project management and efficiency to help the firm meet its overall business plan.
Familiarity with and enthusiasm about legal technology, including opportunities to leverage AI and generative AI in legal services.
Excellent analytical, project management, prioritization, and organization skills.
Self-starter with the ability to work independently with good judgment, handle multiple tasks simultaneously, and quickly prioritize projects.
Ability to work collaboratively at all organizational levels.
Flexible team player with ability to approach problems with a sense of ownership, enthusiasm, and innovation.
Strong interpersonal and customer service skills, coupled with a positive outlook; public relations and diplomacy skills must be excellent.
Availability to travel as necessary.
Desire and ability to work beyond the position’s written duties and assist on other projects and initiatives, as needed.

Responsibilities

Lead and support efforts to optimize client service delivery and increase efficiencies across the SAGE business unit.
Understand the firm’s available resources and technology, and develop best practices and programs to direct teams and tasks to the appropriate resources (people, process, or technology).
Lead projects to digitalize the practice, including automation, data capture, and the use of online resources.
Support the firm’s data strategy, including tracking matter data, monitoring usage of practice content and resources, and capturing experience data.
Serve as a one-on-one resource for practice resource questions and issues.
Support, coordinate, and lead projects to integrate technology, including generative AI, into the practice of law.
Vet, pilot, and support the onboarding of technology to support the legal practice.
Serve as product manager for select technology, including responsibility for rollout, promotion and adoption, communications, gathering feedback, collaboration with vendors, and measuring ROI.
Drive the promotion, adoption, and utilization of legal technology, including generative AI, within the business unit.
Identify, develop, promote, and train on generative AI use cases for the practice.
Serve as a one-on-one resource for lawyers on incorporating generative AI and other legal technology into their practice, including supporting individual training, questions, identifying workflows ripe for technology, troubleshooting, and ideation.
Support, coordinate, and lead projects to develop and improve client-facing solutions.
Design and improve solutions to share matter metrics, data, and regulatory insights with clients and teams.
Capture and leverage matter, experience, and regulatory data to improve and inform future matters.
Design platforms to improve collaboration with clients, local counsel, and third parties.
Improve the use of practice content to streamline the delivery of legal services.
Create and automate knowledge and precedent libraries.
Identify relevant practice content in collaboration with the firm’s Research & Information team, including third-party resources and forms, and integrate them into practice workflows.
Identify additional areas of opportunity for practice content and knowledge sharing and creation, and process improvements.
Regularly evaluate the efficient delivery of legal services through internal data, external benchmarking, and monitoring trends in the market, and identify additional and creative opportunities to improve client service and support SAGE teams.
Educate lawyers and legal professionals on client-facing solutions, firm resources, technology, and other initiatives to improve legal services, and lead efforts to improve utilization, as needed.
Communicate and consult with administrators, lawyers, paralegals, and staff on efficiency, client solutions, legal service initiatives, technology, and projects.
Develop and maintain case studies for use in marketing and business development, and develop and maintain innovation materials and other resources for the business unit.