Legal Technologist

TLT LLP; Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

TLT LLP is seeking a Legal Technologist to join the FutureLaw team in the UK. The role focuses on identifying innovation opportunities, leading projects, and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to advance legal technology initiatives.

You will work with clients to understand their needs, design and deliver solutions, and help embed a culture of innovation across the firm. The position is full-time and attached to one of Bristol, Manchester, or Birmingham offices.

Qualifications

• Identify innovation opportunities and lead innovation projects.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Promote a culture of innovation within the firm.

Responsibilities

• Help understand client needs and design/deliver products and services.
• Embed culture of innovation across Legal and Business Services.
• Execute ROI assessments and business cases for innovations.
• Coordinate teams, resources, budgets, and timelines for initiatives.
• Develop relationships with clients and internal teams to drive improvements.

Skills

Innovation management

Stakeholder engagement

Project coordination

Design thinking

Tools

FutureLaw solutions

Job description

We are looking for a legal technologist to join our FutureLaw team to help us develop and implement new ideas and solutions for our legal and other services.

You will be responsible for identifying innovation opportunities, leading and managing innovation projects, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, and promoting a culture of innovation within the firm.

This is a full time, permanent role.

We are open to the successful candidate being attached to either our Bristol, Manchester or Birmingham office.

Role responsibility As Legal Technologist, the successful candidate will play an important role in helping the firm and its clients challenge convention and be ready for what comes next.

You will work directly with TLT clients to understand their needs and design and deliver products and services to meet those needs.

You will also work with our legal teams to identify opportunities for delivering improved experience, services and outcomes for clients, as well as efficiencies and other business benefits for the firm, In each case, you will use existing FutureLaw solutions and legal technology, develop new solutions, and integrate these with our legal services

• helping to embed our culture of innovation.

You will also play an important role in advancing the firm’s key innovation initiatives.

This includes supporting Project Maui, our strategic programme to embed generative AI and intelligent technology at the heart of legal practice, alongside support for initiatives like our Innovation Champions programme.

You can expect to: Work collaboratively: Collaborating with FutureLaw team members to build and maintain an innovation network and ecosystem within and outside the firm.

Identify and evaluate opportunities: Facilitate the generation of new innovation ideas and evaluate opportunities for innovation and technology in the delivery of our services, both internally and externally.

Work with the wider FutureLaw team to prioritise any new opportunities to ensure a balanced pipeline for innovation initiatives.

Requirements gathering: Work with internal stakeholders across the business to collate ideas for new solutions, help gather clear requirements and prioritise opportunities.

Distil requirements into a clear roadmap for solution delivery that can be used to communicate with legal, technical and operational stakeholders involved in the project.

Manage initiatives: Manage and coordinate teams, resources, budgets, and timelines to create, evaluate, manage and implement innovative solutions.

Including engagement with FutureLaw, Business Services and legal teams.

Nurture relationships: Build up strong relationships with our stakeholders.

Work with internal legal teams to drive and embed innovation, legal technology and our centre of excellence philosophy within legal service lines.

Develop deep and lasting relationships with clients, helping them transform their legal operations and maintain ongoing relationships to explore continuing improvement opportunities.

ROI

• pre implementation: Identify and develop ROI assessments and business cases for innovation based on a good understanding of commercial terms and business requirements.

Provide a clear vision of the value that is expected to be generated from any solutions you put forward and identify the KPIs we can use to measure success.

ROI

• post implementation: Review implemented solutions to ensure they deliver the value that was anticipated at the start of the project.

Continually improve and iterate on solution implementations, where needed, to maximise the value generated by solutions delivered by your team.

Deliver workshops: Run workshops using design thinking or similar innovation techniques to identify internal and external client requirements, needs and pain points.

You can move seamlessly between high-level concepts and low-level detail to create holistic, practical solutions for legal processes that solve key problems.

Communicate problems: Emphasise with legal stakeholders to help elicit new ideas for innovation.

Help stakeholders clearly articulate what they need to do things better.

Ask the right questions to resolve ambiguities and create a clear, shared vision for new solutions.

Design and implement solutions: Support FutureLaw in the design, development, and implementation of new solutions, adopting our agile methodologies and user-centric approaches.

Manage legal technology products: Take responsibility for the ongoing management of designated

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