Knowledge & Innovation Attorney - Corporate & Financial Services

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP•New York, NY

8d•$190,000 - $225,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is seeking an experienced Knowledge & Innovation Attorney to support the Corporate & Financial Services Department. This elite international law firm, with approximately 1,300 lawyers across 16 offices, offers a role that reports to the Corporate Practice Manager. The Knowledge & Innovation Attorney will be instrumental in designing, governing, and executing the department’s knowledge management and practice innovation initiatives, with a focus on AI, prompt and workflow development, training, and other practice-related efforts. This is primarily an internally facing role, collaborating with senior attorneys and business services teams to improve quality, repeatability, and insight generation within the department. The ideal candidate will possess a broad, generalist-Corporate knowledge base, including M&A/private equity, capital markets, and corporate governance. Willkie believes that great people are key to its success and offers a highly competitive compensation package with exceptional benefits. This role is ideal for someone seeking to work in a friendly, collaborative environment with unique opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

Minimum of 4 years of experience as a Corporate associate with expertise across a broad range of corporate transactions, ideally including private equity/M&A, capital markets and corporate governance.
J.D. and admission to at least one state bar required.
Ability to manage multiple workstreams, competing deadlines and shifting priorities with a customer service-oriented attitude.
Strong understanding of legal knowledge management, data structuring or technology-enabled legal processes, including precedent curation and a commitment to continuous improvement of the department’s knowledge strategy.
Proficiency with legal technology and research tools, with the ability to translate practitioner needs into structured requirements and test cases.
Familiarity with generative AI and prompt engineering concepts, with a genuine curiosity to learn and experiment with these tools.
Strong drafting, analytical and communication skills.
Exceptional attention to detail and sound business judgment.
Self-motivated with strong accountability, flexibility and the ability to maintain confidentiality at all times.
Ability to exercise good business judgment and maintain confidentiality at all times.
Self-motivated problem solver who is able to collaborate with attorneys and non-legal staff across departments.

Responsibilities

Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of knowledge and data assets for the department.
Manage workflows for tracking documents and generating insights into matter types and deal points.
Verify the accuracy and completeness of data extracted by AI solutions and resolve discrepancies.
Design, test and iterate generative AI prompts tailored to department-specific use cases.
Build scalable workflows, including standardized playbooks, decision trees, exception pathways and escalation criteria, and assist in the implementation thereof.
Curate and maintain clause banks, exemplar document sets, issues lists and deal point databases; produce and curate knowledge management reports.
Oversee the maintenance of matter trackers and experience databases.
Lead meetings, trainings and presentations to promote knowledge tools, resources, processes, data standards, platforms, AI usage guidelines and workflow best practices.
Capture feedback to improve knowledge management products, solutions and processes.
Respond to attorney inquiries by locating precedent, surfacing curated knowledge resources and implementing solutions, tools and best practices for the department.
Provide other knowledge support to the department as directed by the Corporate Practice Manager and practitioners.
Where appropriate and aligned with client matters, take on billable assignments that leverage subject-matter and data expertise.
Additional projects as assigned.