At the company, technology and innovation are embedded into how we work with our clients. We are a global law firm with a commitment to advancing our innovation strategy, including investment in key technology partnerships with companies like Anthropic and Google, as well as initiatives such as the Lab and AI Academy. Join us to work on some of the most exciting challenges at the intersection of law, technology, and business.
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About the Role
In this role, you will partner with lawyers, practice groups, and business stakeholders to identify and prioritize AI and legal technology opportunities. You will translate legal workflows and business requirements into solution designs and author technical design documents that carry them through architecture, security, and governance review. Your responsibilities will include designing AI-enabled solutions that enhance legal service delivery, knowledge management, research, drafting, and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with lawyers, practice groups, and business stakeholders to identify and prioritize AI and legal technology opportunities.
- Translate legal workflows and business requirements into solution designs, and author technical design documents that carry them through architecture, security, and governance review.
- Design end-to-end AI-enabled solutions that enhance legal service delivery, knowledge management, research, drafting, and operational efficiency.
- Build prototypes and proofs of concept to validate solution designs before committing engineering resources.
- Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to define requirements, prioritize features, and guide delivery.
- Evaluate emerging AI, legal technology, and automation capabilities and recommend practical applications for the firm.
- Ensure solutions align with architecture, security, governance, privacy, and responsible AI standards.
- Lead workshops, discovery sessions, and user testing to validate requirements and drive adoption.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to scale, standardize, and enhance legal technology solutions.
Experience and Skills
- Hands-on experience integrating LLM APIs across one or more enterprise providers, such as Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI or Anthropic, including structured outputs, tool use, streaming, retries, rate limits, model versioning and cost controls.
- Understanding of traditional ML models and algorithms.
- Hands-on track record working with Python in a professional environment.
- Development & DevOps: Hands-on experience with git/git-flow, containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines (ideally Azure DevOps).
- Strong English communication skills to engage with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience with retrieval-enabled and agentic document workflows, including repository navigation, hybrid search and RAG, metadata, OCR, chunking, source citation, tool use, structured outputs and document generation.
- Experience building production services with Python and Django or comparable web frameworks, including APIs, streaming interfaces and asynchronous or background job processing.
- Experience working with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL, including schema design, migrations, and query performance.
- Prior experience working in legal tech or professional services firms.
- Knowledge of Azure Cloud, including AKS, Service Bus, Azure OpenAI and Form Recognizer.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform).
- Experience in agile, fast-paced environments.
- Understanding of the security and compliance requirements of a professional services firm.
Compensation
For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in New York and California, the estimated compensation range for this role is $190,000 to $260,000. This range is based on various factors such as skill sets, experience, training, and other organizational needs.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
The company is proud to be an equal employment employer. Our policies and practices will be free from unlawful discrimination based upon race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), national origin, citizenship, immigration status, ancestry, age, marital status, protected veteran status, military service, disability, medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law. We strive to promote an atmosphere that encourages equal opportunities and prohibits discriminatory practices, including sexual harassment.
Disability Accommodation for Applicants
The company is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job application procedures. If you have any difficulty using our online system and require an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us about your interest in employment or send your resume to the provided contact email.
Inclusion Commitment
The company is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background. All offers of employment will be conditional on the candidate having/securing the right to work in the UK and providing the firm with evidence of that right prior to employment commencing.
