About the Role
This role focuses on evaluating and shaping the application of AI tools within the Disputes practice, designing innovative solutions, and bridging the gap between legal teams and central innovation functions. It also involves supporting data capture and developing data-driven insights.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate and shape the application of AI tools (such as Copilot and Harvey) to Disputes workflows, including document analysis, drafting, and workflow automation.
- Design strategically aligned innovation and process solutions for the Disputes teams and clients.
- Identify areas for improvement and provide legal input into new innovation ideas.
- Serve as the subject matter expert bridge between fee-earning teams and central innovation and operations functions.
- Stay abreast of the latest advancements in legal technology, disputes practice, and knowledge management.
- Support data capture and the development of data-driven insights, including Power BI dashboards.
- Act as the key legal subject matter expert to design and document Practice Group-specific “ways of working” for priority worktypes.
- Expand process automation across Disputes workflows, templates and client workstreams.
- Ensure alignment with firmwide strategy and drive implementation of PG strategy and business plans.
- Embed the right tools into standardised ways of working and continuously improve them.
- Develop and maintain new knowledge assets such as use cases, case studies, prompts, and playbooks.
- Share lessons learned and successes, and spot opportunities to support further developments across the practice.
- Train, upskill and support lawyers and teams to adopt new ways of working and legal technology consistently.
- Foster a culture of continuous innovation.
- Collaborate to design and deliver strategically aligned, creative and innovative solutions internally for the Disputes team and externally for Disputes clients.
- Contribute to pitches, co-design client solutions, and identify opportunities to deliver tech-enabled support to clients.
Requirements
- Subject matter expert bridge between fee-earning teams and central innovation and operations functions.
- Legal input into new innovation ideas.
- Legal subject matter expert to design and document Practice Group-specific “ways of working”.
- Alignment with firmwide strategy and drive implementation of PG strategy and business plans.
- Embed the right tools into standardised ways of working.
- Develop and maintain new knowledge assets.
- Train, upskill and support lawyers and teams.
- Foster a culture of continuous innovation.
- Contribute to pitches, co-design client solutions.
- Identify opportunities to deliver tech-enabled support to clients.
Skills
- AI tools (Copilot, Harvey)
- Document analysis
- Drafting
- Workflow automation
- Process solutions
- Legal technology
- Knowledge management
- Data capture
- Data-driven insights
- Power BI dashboards
- Legal Operations
- Project Management
- Process automation
- Strategy implementation
- Business plans
- Knowledge assets
- Case studies
- Prompts
- Playbooks
- Client solutions
- Tech-enabled support
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive basic salary (reviewed annually)
Benefits
- Competitive basic salary (reviewed annually)
- Flexible, hybrid working policy
- Generous bonus scheme
- Up to 25 days holiday (rising to 28 days with service)
- Holiday exchange scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Enhanced parental leave
Equal Opportunity
- Reasonable adjustments and accommodation for disabled talent in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.
