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About the Role
Norton Rose Fulbright is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior AI & Innovation Counsel to embed AI into legal practice and drive adoption across the firm. This role is critical for translating AI investments into real-world impact by combining legal judgment with practical innovation, ensuring solutions are trusted, adopted, and embedded into legal workflows.
Responsibilities
- Embed within priority practice group(s) and support other Innovation teams by encouraging adoption of AI tools and workflows.
- Validate AI outputs through a practiced legal lens, ensuring they meet professional, ethical, and client standards.
- Translate attorney needs into actionable requirements for other innovation and legal engineering teams.
- Integrate AI and agentic tools into existing legal workflows to improve efficiency, consistency, and quality.
- Maintain a pipeline of practice driven priorities and use cases.
- Contribute to a library of reusable workflow patterns and agentic playbooks.
- Identify, prioritize, and develop high-value use cases based on real legal work and practice experience.
- Decompose legal matter workflows into discrete tasks, decision points, and dependencies to identify AI and agentic solution impact.
- Partner with other Innovation functions and translate decomposed workflows into clear functional specifications.
- Partner with attorneys, other Innovation teams, and Legal Practice Management to map matter lifecycles and pinpoint automation opportunities.
- Support rapid prototyping and testing of new workflows and tools.
- Capture feedback and measurement loops from attorneys to continuously improve and validate solutions performance.
- Operate as a player-coach, balancing hands-on engagement with people leadership and development.
- Manage and mentor a team of AI and innovation lawyers as the function scales.
- Establish AI and Innovation lawyer best practices/standards, cross-functional collaboration expectations and workflows, and quality practices for the team.
- Partner with the Director of Innovation and senior leadership to shape the AI and Innovation lawyer roadmap and org design.
- Lead with impact and client value, and help shape future commercial outcomes and team structures.
- Build trusted relationships with partners and attorneys across practice groups.
- Serve as an adoption conduit and be an interface between lawyers, Innovation, and technical teams.
- Work directly with Innovation leadership, attorneys, practice leaders, and business stakeholders to co-design solutions.
- Partner with the AI Governance & Program Manager, IT, and Info security teams to ensure solutions meet firm standards and governance requirements.
Requirements
- JD required.
- Minimum seven years' experience as a practicing attorney or in KM/ Innovation within professional services, preferably at an AmLaw 100 in a practice group of strategic importance to Norton Rose Fulbright.
- Demonstrated and deep understanding of legal workflows and how legal work is delivered in practice.
- Proven experience with legal technology, project management, business planning, and team management.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity: this function is still being defined, and you will help define and mature it.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to translate business or legal requirements into technical solutions and workflows.
- Able to present to senior partners and work alongside engineers in the same day.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, deliver results in a fast-paced environment, and drive organizational behavior change.
- Genuine broader market curiosity about AI and its implications for the future of legal practice – beyond simply familiarity with the tools.
- Understanding of data privacy, security, and responsible AI considerations in a professional services context.
- Experience developing scalable frameworks, playbooks, or reusable solution patterns.
Skills
- AI
- Innovation
- Legal technology
- Project management
- Business planning
- Team management
- Communication
- Data privacy
- Security
- Responsible AI
Location
- US
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- JD
Benefits
- Access to three medical plans, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
- Pre-tax benefits such as health savings and flexible spending accounts.
- 401(k) savings plan and profit-sharing plans if eligible.
- Fertility benefits.
- Competitive paid time off plan (minimum of 20 days off).
- Generous paid parental leave (minimum of 14 weeks).
- 11 Firm holidays.
About the Company
- Norton Rose Fulbright provides a full scope of legal services to the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions.
- The global law firm has more than 3,000 lawyers advising clients across locations in the United States, Europe, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East.
- With its global business principles of quality, unity and integrity, Norton Rose Fulbright is recognized for its client service in key industries, including financial institutions; energy, infrastructure and resources; technology; transport; life sciences and healthcare; and consumer markets.
Equal Opportunity
- Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
- Norton Rose Fulbright is committed to providing reasonable accommodation as an Equal Opportunity Employer to applicants with disabilities.
- Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.