Senior Legal Technologist

Addleshaw Goddard; Manchester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Addleshaw Goddard is seeking a Senior Legal Technologist to lead AI-enabled legal technology transformations for in-house teams. You will drive use-case development, build prompt libraries, and guide clients through platform deployments and vendor selections.

You will shape knowledge, benchmarks, and maturity models while delivering practical, scalable legal tech solutions and insights across multiple engagements.

Qualifications

• Experience in a global law firm or professional services environment.
• Experience with AI enablement and legal use-case development.
• Familiar with legal AI platforms such as Harvey, Legora and Wordsmith.

Responsibilities

• Delivering AI and legal tech transformation services to in-house legal teams.
• Supporting technology selection and vendor decisions including market scans, options analysis, vendor demos, shortlisting and pilot support.
• Providing AI implementation support, helping with use case identification, developing prompt libraries, playbooks and frameworks and acting as AI Lead for clients deploying platforms.
• Providing legal tech implementation support, configuring and implementing technical solutions.
• Providing insights, guidance and training on the latest legal tech and GenAI developments.
• Undertaking continuous market scanning and feeding insights directly into client conversations and the team's collective knowledge.
• Designing assessment tools, maturity models and benchmarking frameworks to measure and guide client progress.

Skills

LLM literacy

AI enablement

Power Automate

No-code AI builders

Scripting basics

Vendor evaluation

Tools

Harvey

Legora

Wordsmith

Job description

We are seeking a dynamic, creative and experienced Senior Legal Technologist to join the Legal Technology Consulting (LTC) Pillar within the Innovation & Legal Technology team.

What You'll Do:

• Delivering AI and legal tech transformation services to in-house legal teams.
• Supporting technology selection and vendor decisions including market scans, options analysis, vendor demos, shortlisting and pilot support.
• Providing AI implementation support, helping with use case identification, developing prompt libraries, playbooks and frameworks and acting as AI Lead for clients deploying platforms.
• Providing legal tech implementation support, configuring and implementing technical solutions.
• Providing insights, guidance and training on the latest legal tech and GenAI developments.
• Undertaking continuous market scanning and feeding insights directly into client conversations and the team's collective knowledge.
• Designing assessment tools, maturity models and benchmarking frameworks to measure and guide client progress.

Who We're Looking For:

• Relevant experience within a global law firm or professional consulting services environment (preferred).
• Practical experience of AI enablement and acceleration programmes for legal including use case identification, developing and refining prompt libraries, optimisation, training and road mapping. Ideally familiar with AI platforms specific to the legal domain (i.e. Harvey, Legora, Wordsmith).
• Strong LLM and technical literacy, including validating AI generated outputs against source material.
• Experience with broader legal technology solutions and workflow automation tooling (e.g. Power Automate, basic scripting, no code AI builders).

Why Choose Us?

Addleshaw Goddard is a place where you are not just valued but encouraged to reach your full potential. Our culture promotes improvement, growth, and collaboration, making us the natural choice for top-tier clients. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees.