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About the Role
Cooley is seeking an Innovation Counsel to join our Practice Innovation team. This role will advance Cooley’s efforts to deliver practice-specific initiatives designed to maximize the value of our innovation technologies and practices, collaborating with various teams to drive best practices for leveraging legal technology.
Responsibilities
- Support and provide attorney-level input on targeted legal technology adoption initiatives impacting the firm’s practice groups.
- Design and prepare playbooks to help practice groups understand and implement best practices around the use of innovation technologies and processes.
- Organize presentations, status reports, and executive briefings.
- Collaborate with leadership in innovation, firm operations, technology, and practice groups in the request/initiative prioritization process.
- Collaborate with other innovation teams to develop objectives, success metrics, and timelines for legal technology adoption initiatives.
- Collaborate with practice management, legal project management, and pricing teams to analyze workflows and develop strategies for increased effectiveness and efficiency using legal technologies.
- Drive legal technology pilots, deployments, proofs of concept, experiments, and continuous improvements within the firm’s practice groups.
- Work with the change management team to develop effective communication campaigns and change measurement processes for practice groups.
- Develop and maintain practice group-specific resources, and work with Practice Engineering and other firm departments to automate and/or scale these efforts.
- Undertake additional responsibilities based on evolving needs of the firm.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, iManage, and other firm applications after orientation.
- Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours as required.
- Ability to travel as required.
- 4+ years of direct applicable experience (e.g., legal practice, hands-on legal technology use and adoption).
- Active member in good standing or registered in-house counsel of the bar(s) in all jurisdictions from which you regularly work, and the jurisdiction of your assigned office, if applicable.
- Juris Doctor(ate) or non-US equivalent.
- Experience supporting and driving cross-functional projects involving legal technology, knowledge management, technology, and practice group leadership.
- Understanding of large law firm financial and work allocation processes.
Skills
- Microsoft Office suite
- iManage
- Distributed systems and organizations
- Core large law technologies (iManage, NetDocs, Elite 3E, Intapp products, Litera products, Thomson Reuters, Lexis products)
- Generative AI solutions used in legal practice
- Effective presentation skills to varied audiences
- Alternative legal service/managed service providers and models
- Technology usage data and metrics
- Leveraging data for insights and storytelling
- Excellent written and oral communication
- Effective analysis to determine root cause of legal service delivery problems and suggest solutions
- Ability to process complex information with high levels of accuracy
- Ability to build, develop and grow business relationships
- Ability to translate technical concepts to legal professionals and senior executives
- Ability to influence and collaborate with multiple stakeholders
- Ability to work effectively in a highly matrixed team environment
- Ability to focus on detail without losing sight of the bigger picture
Experience Level
- 4+ years direct applicable experience
Education Level
- Juris Doctor(ate) or non-US equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- $225,000 - $285,000
Benefits
- Full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits.
- Firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits.
- Four weeks of vacation, two weeks of sick and 10 paid holidays each year.
- Generous parental leave and fertility benefits.
About the Company
- Cooley offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package and is committed to fair and equitable employment practices.
Equal Opportunity
- EOE.