Junior AI Lawyer (1+ years PQE)

Bird Bird; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus schemes

Flexible benefits package

Career development programs

Job summary

Bird & Bird seeks a practising lawyer who is passionate about the transformative potential of AI in legal services. This role blends law, technology and knowledge management to embed AI tools into everyday workflows and client service.

You will be a credible voice within the firm, speaking the language of both lawyers and technologists, and will work within the LegalTech and AI Practice to drive innovation and practical solutions for clients.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with at least one year's experience in private practice.
• Demonstrable interest in AI and legal technology, including familiarity with AI-assisted legal tools.
• Strong computer literacy including MS Office and database software.

Responsibilities

• Embed LegalTech and AI tools in the firm's workflows and knowledge sharing.
• Translate user journeys into repeatable processes and workflows.
• Collaborate with Partners, fee earners, Knowledge Development Lawyers and Digital Champions.
• Design AI training sessions and workshops for fee earners and practice groups.
• Deliver usage reports and analytics for knowledge systems.

Skills

LegalTech knowledge

AI in legal services

Communication

Project delivery

Workshop facilitation

Knowledge management

MS Office

Education

Qualified lawyer with 1+ year in private practice

Tools

SharePoint Online

MS Office

AI tools for legal

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for a practising lawyer who is passionate about the transformative potential of AI in legal services. This is not a purely legal, knowledge, or technology role. If you are energised by shaping a firm's legal technology direction and ensuring it stays ahead of a fast-moving market, this role is for you. You will bring your legal expertise and technological skills to a team focused on embedding AI tools into the heart of how we work, how we effectively share our legal knowledge using our tools and how we serve clients. You will be a credible voice internally and externally, capable of speaking the language of both the lawyer and the technologist.

You will be part of the LegalTech and AI Practice, which sits alongside the global LegalTech and Innovation team. The mission of the LegalTech and AI Practice is to support the strong technology focus of the Firm, provide modern technology to support the business and creative solutions for our clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Combining a broad range of insights and experiences, including law, technology, knowledge management, AI, data, design, process, and change, our LegalTech and Innovation team develops a wide range of creative and forward-thinking solutions to complement the firm's trusted legal expertise. Working closely with Partners, other fee earning lawyers, Knowledge Development Lawyers, our Digital Champions network and business services staff across the firm, this role will focus on various knowledge sharing and collaboration initiatives, working with our people to translate practical user journeys across our tools into tangible, repeatable, workflows and processes.
• Act as one of the team's embedded LegalTech and AI specialists, with a deep understanding of AI tools, legal workflows / mapping, and the practical realities of fee earner adoption, with an emphasis on how knowledge (prompts, workflows, skills, legal knowledge) can be shared within teams and across the firm more generally using our tools.
• Work closely with the intranet's content editors on a day-to-day basis to ensure they are posting, editing and tagging correctly so it is optimised for search and AI and ensuring the most helpful content is easily accessible.
• Help to deliver LegalTech and Innovation projects, including trialling proposed new systems/features and providing feedback and suggestions.
• Support the growth of quality precedents and know-how in the firm's central database and build momentum in the visibility, use and effectiveness of these tools across all practice areas and acting as a day-to-day point of contact for the Knowledge Development Lawyers and Digital Champions network in an AI context.
• Actively contribute to a culture that values and leverages the firm's responsible AI use by assisting with training, new joiner inductions, communications and attending face to face meetings to raise the profile of the LegalTech and AI Practice and wider LegalTech and Innovation team.
• Deliver statistical usage reports and analysis of the firm's knowledge systems.
• Attend vendor user groups and supplier meetings.
• Keep up to date with industry developments and new technologies.
• Design engaging AI training sessions and workshops for fee earners, including at firm retreats and practice group away-days.
• Develop client-facing AI workshops, helping organisations explore use cases, refine processes, and build confidence in working with AI tools.
• Design workshop slides and prepare tangible takeaways (prompting guides, workflow mapping etc).
• Act as a change agent within practice groups, helping teams identify new use cases and continuously improve how they deliver legal work.
• Contribute to the development of internal training materials, playbooks, pitch materials and best practice guidance.
• Help grow a culture of curiosity, experimentation, and continuous improvement within the team.

What You'll Bring

• Qualified lawyer with at least one year's experience in private practice.
• Demonstrable interest in and knowledge of AI and legal technology, including familiarity with AI-assisted legal tools and platforms such as Legora.
• An aptitude for using technology and be highly computer literate, including strong knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and database software.
• Knowledge and experience of how to use relational databases, content management systems, such as SharePoint Online, enterprise search and AI functionality.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Experience of, or a clear aptitude for, project delivery, including requirements gathering, process mapping, testing, and training.
• Comfortable facilitating workshops and training sessions for professional audiences.
• Prior experience in a LegalTech, innovation, or knowledge management role within a law firm or legal team.
• Experience with AI tools applied to legal workflows (e.g. contract review, due diligence, document drafting, or research).
• Familiarity with client-facing technology platforms and portal products.
• A solid understanding of metadata, taxonomies, ontologies and knowledge graphs and how they can be used to classify and structure data.

What's In It For You

• Our agile approach to office and remote working enables you to find the right balance to deliver at your best. Supporting you, our business and our clients in a flexible way.
• Progress your career and personal development with our award-winning development programmes, from our global mentoring scheme to our bespoke coaching opportunities.
• Equip yourself with a board range of technical and business skills as well as a deep understanding of business issues through our skills-based curriculum.
• Competitive, market-led salary and bonus structure
• Family friendly policies as well as health schemes and wellbeing support
• A flexible benefits package which allows you to tailor your benefits to your current needs and lifestyle.

In addition to a competitive salary and benefits package, Bird & Bird operates two discretionary bonus schemes.

We offer a performance related bonus that reflects the contributions you make to the firm. We know an inclusive culture, alongside a diverse workforce, makes us more innovative and agile, so whilst some of the criteria for being awarded a bonus is based on chargeable hours, we also include an allowance for hours spent contributing to Diversity & Inclusion, ESG, and Pro Bono work.

We see 'winning work' as significantly different to the day-to-day business development activities you carry out as part of your role as an Associate, so in addition to the Performance Bonus, Bird & Bird are keen to reward Associates for winning work. Winning Work Bonuses are paid in addition to the Performance Bonus and are intended to be a thank you for your contribution to introducing a client or generating additional work from an existing client.

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Bird & Bird opens up a world of possible for lawyers everywhere. Here you can advise major enterprises and high-growth businesses on matters that are often transformative in nature, and alongside people who are truly collegiate in the way they work with everyone at Bird & Bird. We are one international firm, where over 70% of our work involves teams from across our firm. And that is only going to increase. It is this common purpose and shared approach that makes for a more productive, and collaborative place to work.

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