Practice Innovation Attorney (Litigation)
About The Position
The Practice Innovation Attorney serves as the innovation partner for the Litigation Practice Specialty Centers (PSC), helping improve legal service delivery through practice innovation, knowledge management, workflow optimization, and technology adoption. Working closely with practice leaders, attorneys, and business teams, the role identifies and implements innovative approaches that improve legal service delivery, increase scalability, and strengthen client outcomes while ensuring work product remains guided by attorney judgment. The position analyzes legal workflows, develops reusable legal knowledge assets, designs and implements AI-enabled workflows and solutions, and helps attorneys adopt innovative ways of working. It bridges legal practitioners, Practice Innovation, technology teams, and other business functions to translate practice needs into practical, sustainable solutions that improve attorney effectiveness and client value. The position is remote. Compensation varies by skills, experience, location, and other legally permitted factors. Full-time employees receive benefits including medical and dental coverage, life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, a pre-tax flexible spending account for certain medical and dependent-care expenses, an employee assistance program, paid time off, paid holidays, and eligibility to participate in a retirement plan after meeting eligibility requirements. Discretionary bonus opportunities are non-guaranteed and depend on individual and firm performance.
Requirements
- J.D. and a four-year degree in a relevant field.
- At least five years of experience as a practicing attorney or in knowledge management, innovation, or legal operations.
- Proven experience with legal technology, generative AI, knowledge management principles, and process improvement.
- Ability to identify business challenges, develop practical and scalable solutions, and drive organizational change.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to collaborate with diverse teams and explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong relationship-building, consulting, and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to influence and drive change without direct authority.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive and innovative mindset.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary Practice Innovation liaison for the Litigation PSC, providing strategic advice on innovation and knowledge management.
- Build relationships with attorneys and practice leaders to identify opportunities to improve legal service delivery, knowledge sharing, productivity, and client value.
- Translate practice and client needs into actionable knowledge, innovation, workflow, and technology initiatives.
- Facilitate collaboration between attorneys and business teams to develop and implement practical solutions.
- Develop, prototype, test, refine, maintain, and govern practice-specific reusable knowledge assets, including playbooks, repositories, precedents, databases, workflows, templates, prompts, and other solutions.
- Capture attorney experience, institutional knowledge, and best practices and translate them into scalable assets that improve consistency, quality, and client value.
- Analyze legal workflows and deliverables to identify opportunities for automation, AI enablement, workflow improvement, and client-facing solutions; turn successful practices into scalable workflows and reusable resources.
- Evaluate and pilot legal technology and AI tools, conduct comparative analyses, and recommend purchase, expansion, or retirement of solutions.
- Coordinate with technology and business teams to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, sustainable, and aligned with firm governance requirements.
- Develop and deliver training, workshops, demonstrations, and support materials about knowledge resources, technology, and innovation initiatives in coordination with the Learning team.
- Advise attorneys and business professionals on effective use of firm tools, knowledge assets, and workflows.
- Promote adoption through practical use cases, demonstrations, pilot programs, and ongoing practice-group engagement.
- Gather user feedback and adoption insights to refine solutions and maximize business impact.
- Monitor adoption, usage, feedback, and implementation barriers, and adjust training, communications, and solution design accordingly.
- Lead innovation, knowledge management, and workflow-improvement projects for the Litigation PSC from concept through implementation.
- Contribute to client-facing solutions, alternative service-delivery models, and strategic innovation initiatives.
- Support client presentations, demonstrations, feedback sessions, proposals, and business-development initiatives showcasing the firm’s Practice Innovation capabilities.
- Measure, communicate, and continuously improve initiative impact using adoption metrics, stakeholder feedback, lessons learned, and outcome assessment.
- Capture and share successful use cases, implementation lessons, and innovation success stories across PSCs and the firm.
- Monitor developments in legal technology, knowledge management, artificial intelligence, and legal service delivery, and participate in relevant firm, client, and industry events.
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Pre-tax flexible spending account for certain medical and dependent-care expenses
- Employee assistance program
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Participation in a retirement plan program after meeting eligibility requirements
- Discretionary bonus opportunity, non-guaranteed and dependent on individual and firm performance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
