Practice Innovation Attorney (Intellectual Property)
About The Position
Husch Blackwell LLP is seeking a remote Practice Innovation Attorney to serve as the innovation partner for its Intellectual Property (IP) Practice Specialty Center (PSC). The role improves legal service delivery through practice innovation, knowledge management, workflow optimization, and technology adoption. Working with practice leaders, attorneys, and business teams, the attorney identifies and implements approaches that increase scalability and strengthen client outcomes while ensuring work product remains guided by attorney judgment. The attorney analyzes legal workflows, develops reusable knowledge assets, designs and implements AI-enabled workflows and solutions, and helps attorneys adopt innovative ways of working. The role connects legal practitioners, Practice Innovation, technology teams, and other business functions to translate practice needs into practical and sustainable solutions that improve attorney effectiveness and client value. It leads innovation and workflow projects from concept through implementation, supports attorney adoption and client-facing initiatives, and measures and communicates project impact.
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 and 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 and a proactive, innovative mindset.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary Practice Innovation liaison for the IP PSC and provide 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, and facilitate collaboration with business teams to implement solutions.
- Develop, prototype, test, refine, maintain, and govern reusable practice-specific knowledge assets, including playbooks, repositories, precedents, databases, workflows, templates, prompts, and skills.
- Capture attorney experience, institutional knowledge, and best practices and turn them into scalable resources that improve consistency, quality, and client value.
- Analyze legal workflows and deliverables to identify automation, AI, workflow improvement, and client-facing solution opportunities; translate successful practices into reusable firm resources.
- Evaluate and pilot legal technology and AI tools, conduct comparative analyses, and recommend purchasing, expanding, or retiring 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 in coordination with the Learning team.
- Advise attorneys and business professionals on effective use of firm tools, knowledge assets, and workflows; promote adoption through use cases, demonstrations, pilots, and continued practice-group engagement.
- Gather user feedback and adoption insights, monitor implementation barriers, and adjust training, communications, and solution design.
- Lead innovation, knowledge management, and workflow improvement projects for the IP 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 Practice Innovation capabilities.
- Measure and improve initiative impact using adoption metrics, stakeholder feedback, lessons learned, and outcome assessments.
- Capture and share successful use cases, implementation lessons, and innovation 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
