Junior AI Lawyer (1+ years PQE)

Consortium; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Career development

Competitive salary and benefits

Health schemes and wellbeing support

Job summary

Bird & Bird is seeking a practising lawyer to drive LegalTech and AI initiatives. You will embed AI tools, support knowledge sharing, and design AI training sessions across the firm.

As part of the LegalTech and AI Practice, you will shape the firm's technology direction, work with partners and lawyers, and influence how AI is used to deliver client services.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with experience in AI and legal technology.
• Experience in knowledge management and LegalTech projects.
• Ability to map legal workflows and promote adoption of AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Embed AI tools within legal workflows and knowledge systems.
• Support knowledge sharing and develop AI training sessions.
• Coordinate with intranet editors to optimize content for AI and search.

Skills

AI in legal tech

Communication skills

Workshop facilitation

Project delivery

Knowledge sharing

Tech-savvy

Education

Qualified lawyer

Tools

Legora

SharePoint Online

MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Job description

Role: Practising lawyer in LegalTech and AI Practice

Responsibilities: Embed AI tools, support knowledge sharing, develop AI training sessions

Qualifications: Qualified lawyer with experience in AI and legal technology

Incentives: Flexible working, career development, competitive salary and benefits

Organisation: Bird & Bird, an international law firm

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.

Please note that this is a non-fee‑earning position.

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.

As a disability and neurodiversity inclusive employer we want to ensure that you have a barrier‑free recruitment experience at Bird & Bird. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please provide details to your recruitment contact who will be in touch to discuss any details provided and understand more about your individual adjustment needs.

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