Senior Legal Technologist - Manchester or Leeds

Addleshaw Goddard LLP; Leeds; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Addleshaw Goddard LLP is seeking a Senior Legal Technologist to join the Practice Innovation pillar of the Innovation & Legal Technology team in Leeds. You will drive adoption, evaluation and value of the firm’s legal tech stack, ensuring tools align with real client delivery and ROI.

You will monitor the market, assess new products including Generative AI developments, and coordinate with IT, Procurement and risk teams to implement scalable, compliant tech solutions across the firm.

Qualifications

• Significant relevant experience in legal technology, innovation or technology-enabled change within professional services.
• Power Platform expertise including workflow, reporting and internal solutions.
• Coding skills in web-based languages to support lightweight technical solutions.
• Experience evaluating legal technology products, supporting trials or rollouts, and comparing tool functionality against business needs.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the legal tech market and Generative AI developments relevant to the firm's tool stack.
• Benchmark and evaluate new and existing tools across tasks, workflows and use cases.
• Test new use cases on existing technologies and communicate findings to teams.
• Track ROI, adoption and value realisation for tools within the firm's stack.
• Maintain a central view of features, differentiators and overlap across tools.
• Support trials, pilots and evaluations of new legal technology with stakeholders.

Skills

Power Platform

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Coding skills

Education

Undergraduate degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Power Platform

Job description

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

• We are seeking a dynamic, commercially minded and technically capable Senior Legal Technologist to join the Practice Innovation pillar within the Innovation & Legal Technology team. The successful candidate will help drive the effective use, evaluation and future of the firm's internal legal technology tool stack, with a particular focus on supporting lawyers to adopt the right tools for the right use cases.
• You will support the Practice Innovation team in monitoring the legal tech market, assessing emerging products and Generative AI developments, and ensuring the firm maintains a clear view of where tools overlap, where opportunities exist, and how value is being realised across the technology stack.

THE TEAM

• Our Innovation and Legal Technology (ILT) team, formed in 2015, is one of the three teams that make up the Innovation Group. The ILT team combines technology and legal expertise, fully integrating these capabilities into our business operations. ILT has grown into a fast-paced and dynamic unit, constantly evolving to provide opportunities for contribution and career development.
• Within the ILT team, the Practice Innovation pillar focuses on helping lawyers embed technology and improved ways of working into their day-to-day legal delivery. We collaborate with teams across the firm to identify pain points, scope opportunities for improvement and support the adoption of tools and solutions that improve efficiency, consistency and client service, as well help the Firm realise measurable value from innovation investments.
• This includes managing and evaluating the legal tech tools used by lawyers in their everyday work, supporting trials and onboarding of new technology, tracking adoption and ROI, coordinating with internal stakeholders and vendors, and helping configure or develop solutions where off-the-shelf tools do not fully meet business needs.

WHAT TO EXPECT IN THIS ROLE

• Monitoring the legal tech market, tracking competitor offerings, emerging products and Generative AI developments relevant to the firm's existing and future tool stack.
• Benchmarking and evaluating new and existing tools, assessing their performance across relevant legal tasks, workflows and use cases.
• Testing out new use cases or solutions on existing technologies to understand capabilities and communicate this back to teams
• Tracking and reporting on ROI, adoption and value realisation for tools within the firm's technology stack.
• Maintaining a centralised view of tool features, differentiators and areas of overlap across the firm's stack and the wider market.
• Supporting trials, pilots and assessments of new legal technology, including structured evaluation, stakeholder feedback and coordination with relevant internal teams.
• Supporting procurement and contract negotiation processes for new tools being considered or onboarded by the firm.
• Working with lawyers and business stakeholders to understand legal workflows and assess where technology can improve delivery, efficiency and user experience.
• Supporting the rollout, embedding and governance of legal technology tools used by lawyers in their day-to-day work.
• Engaging across the firm to promote innovation and legal technology, including sharing updates on new tools, product developments and market trends.
• Working collaboratively across internal teams including IT, Procurement, Risk, Information Security, Knowledge and other pillars within Innovation & Legal Technology.
• Staying aware of broader developments in legal services, legal operations, automation and AI, and translating those developments into practical insight for the firm.
• Help drive codifying legal and operational knowledge into scalable agentic workflows (e.g. playbooks, checklists, decision trees and AI-supported workflows), enabling consistent, repeatable and efficient delivery across the firm.
• Challenge existing processes and ways of working, driving continuous improvement by developing innovative, technology-enabled solutions and evolving them in line with new tool capabilities and features as they emerge.

In addition to the above, we would also expect a Senior Legal Technologist to:

• Provide regular feedback, training and guidance to other members of the team.
• Take ownership of tool evaluations, market analysis and strategic recommendations, with an ability to communicate findings clearly to a range of stakeholders.
• Support team planning, prioritisation and wider strategic initiatives relating to legal technology adoption and optimisation.
• Contribute to business cases, procurement processes and decisions relating to the firm's legal technology portfolio.
• Build specialist knowledge in relevant legal technology products, Generative AI developments and market trends.
• Be able to deputise for senior members of the Practice Innovation team where required.

YOUR AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE

• An undergraduate degree or equivalent education or experience.
• Significant relevant experience in legal technology, innovation or technology-enabled change within a law firm or professional services environment or wider e.g. at a legal tech company or similar.
• Strong technical aptitude, with the ability to understand, assess and explain legal technology tools and their practical application.
• Experience of evaluating legal technology products, supporting trials or rollouts, and comparing tool functionality against business needs.
• Power Platform expertise, including a strong understanding of how Microsoft-based tools can be used to support workflow, reporting and internal solutions.
• Coding skills in web-based languages, with an ability to support or develop lightweight technical solutions where appropriate.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to assess performance, monitor ROI and present findings in a clear and commercially useful way.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrating an ability to communicate and engage with colleagues at all levels.
• Excellent attention to detail, organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
• An innovative approach, with curiosity about the legal tech market, emerging products and Generative AI developments.
• An understanding of the challenges affecting law firms and the changing legal services market.
• An understanding of how legal work is delivered and where technology can add value in practice.
• Positive, enthusiastic, collaborative and proactive, with a conscientious work ethic and a strong sense of ownership.

OUR FIRM

Addleshaw Goddard is a placewhere you are valued, encouraged, and challenged to fulfil your potential in a supportive and collegiate environment. Our culture of improvement, growth and collaboration delivers results, drives innovation, and rewards ambition.

We not only provide technical excellence and experience but, crucially, demonstrate real insight into our clients and what really matters to them and as such we are natural choice for FTSE100 clients and their equivalents in other markets.

Our success has been built by people from the widest range of backgrounds, locations, and perspectives. We have a number of employee networks that provide space to discuss the differences that make us who we are and celebrate this at AG.

OUR APPROACH: IMAGINE THE BEST YOU CAN BE

Everything we've accomplishedcan be traced back to our people and the way we work. Our reputation is something we are proud of, and constantly invest in.

Here, you'll do high calibre work, with high-character colleagues who care for one another and our clients.