AI Enablement Intern

Fenwick & West LLP; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 29,000 - 34,000; Part time

Job summary

Fenwick & West LLP seeks an AI Enablement Intern to coach attorneys and business professionals in using the firm's consolidated AI tools. You will support structured comparisons across AI platforms, document findings, and help establish guardrails for governance and token-management in workflows.

The role emphasizes cross-functional communication, hands-on testing of features, and clear, repeatable documentation to promote confident AI adoption across teams.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated interest in applied AI tools and their use in legal practice.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
• Experience documenting findings and testing results in a structured, repeatable way.

Responsibilities

• Provide 1:1 end-user support to attorneys and business professionals on defined workflows within the AI stack.
• Field and resolve questions on prompting technique and tool usage for the firm’s platforms.
• Build and maintain lightweight reference materials to support self-service adoption.

Skills

AI tools

Communication

Documentation

Education

Law student

Tools

Claude

Harvey

Legora

Job description

Job Description Summary

Join Fenwick's AI Innovation team as an AI Enablement Intern, supporting attorneys and business professionals in getting the most out of the firm's consolidated AI tech stack. The AI Enablement Intern works directly with end users, coaching them through specific workflows, maintaining lightweight reference materials, and running structured comparative testing across the firm's AI platforms. The role also supports forward-looking evaluation of new features and helps ensure that governance and token-management guardrails are built into finished skills and workflows. The ideal candidate is a current law student with a genuine interest in applied AI tools and legal technology, strong communication skills, and the patience and clarity to help colleagues build new habits around AI-assisted work.

End-User AI Enablement & Support

• Provide 1:1 support to attorneys and business professionals on specific, defined workflows within the firm's consolidated AI tech stack.
• Field and resolve end-user questions on prompting technique and tool usage, scoped to the firm's supported platforms.
• Build and maintain lightweight reference materials, such as quick guides, to support self-service adoption.

Comparative Testing & Documentation

• Run structured, comparative testing across the firm's AI platforms (e.g., context-window behavior and other capability differences across Claude, Harvey, and Legora).
• Document findings and surface themes, trends, and triage priorities to the Director, AI Innovation & Operations.

Frontier Feature Support & Governance

• Conduct forward-looking testing of new AI features and platform releases in support of the firm's frontier evaluation efforts.
• Implement governance, business, and token-management guardrails into finished AI skills and workflows, as directed by the Director, AI Innovation & Operations and the broader AI Innovation team.

What We're Looking For

• Demonstrated interest in applied AI tools and their use in legal practice.
• Comfortable using and troubleshooting generative AI platforms (e.g., Claude, Harvey, Legora) at an end-user level.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
• Detail-oriented, with the ability to document findings and testing results in a structured, repeatable way.
• Comfortable working 1:1 with attorneys and business professionals at varying levels of technical comfort.
• Prior experience supporting end users or colleagues through software or technology adoption.
• Coursework, research, or hands-on exposure to prompt engineering or generative AI tools.
• Interest in legal technology, legal operations, or AI enablement/adoption as a career path.
• Currently enrolled in a college degree program.

The anticipated pay rate is $21 to $25 per hour.

Benefits and Compensation Details

At Fenwick, we believe that our partners and employees are our most important asset. Helping you and your families achieve and maintain good health - physical, emotional, and financial - is the reason we offer a comprehensive benefit program. We provide benefits to eligible employees under plans such as Healthcare, Life Insurance, Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Wellbeing. Except as otherwise required by law, temporary employees are generally not entitled to these benefits. The anticipated range for this position is: $1 - $1,500,000 Depending on the role, the actual base salary offered may depend upon a variety of factors, including without limitation, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and if applicable, the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. A discretionary bonus for eligible employees may also be available based on performance. Additional information about employee eligibility for benefits and discretionary bonus will be made available upon request.

Our Story

For more than five decades, Fenwick & West has helped some of the world's most recognized companies become, and remain, market leaders. From emerging enterprises to large public corporations, our clients are leaders in the technology, life sciences and cleantech sectors and are fundamentally changing the world through rapid innovation. Having worked alongside such progressive and cutting edge companies for so long, our culture has come to reflect the entrepreneurial spirit of our client base. Unlike traditional law firms, we move at our clients' speed and have earned the reputation as a go-to law firm for growing companies that need insightful, strategic counsel to help tackle the challenging issues that arise when the law cannot keep up with their pace of innovation. With the same passion for excellence and innovation reflected in our client base, our firm is making revolutionary changes to the practice of law through substantial investments in proprietary technology tools and processes. Our clients demand—and deserve—new ways to receive best-in-class legal services more effectively. At Fenwick, we are proud to be shaping our legal services to do just that. We are proud to have been named one of the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area for the twelfth year.

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