AI Innovation Attorney - Transactional

Cozen O'Connor; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Cozen O’Connor is building an AI Innovation Attorney – Transactional and Advisory team to reshape how legal services are delivered. The role partners with transactional and advisory practices to identify AI opportunities, redesign workflows, and deploy high-value AI capabilities across matters and clients.

The candidate will bring an active generative AI practice, strong judgment, and the credibility to guide lawyers on appropriate use, risk, and governance while driving adoption firm-wide.

Qualifications

• Active, hands-on experience using generative AI in legal work is required.
• Ability to translate among legal, technical, and business audiences to practical solutions.
• Strong project ownership, organization and follow-through with multiple stakeholders.
• Willingness to experiment, learn from failure and remain accountable for results.

Responsibilities

• Partner with transactional and advisory practices and redesign workflows.
• Lead pilots and initiatives from problem definition through design, testing, implementation and adoption.
• Advise lawyers on where AI can meaningfully improve work and where not to use it.
• Build AI-enabled workflows, prompts, templates, and knowledge assets across matters and clients.

Skills

Generative AI in legal work

Translating between legal and tech

Project ownership

Stakeholder management

Curious, low-ego mindset

Education

J.D. and bar admission

Job description

Job Description

Cozen O’Connor is building a multidisciplinary Legal AI & Practice Transformation team to rethink how legal services are delivered. Our mission is to use AI and other emerging technologies to help our lawyers deliver the best possible advice and outcomes for clients. We are not just adding AI tools to existing ways of working; we are building the expertise and capabilities needed to redesign how legal work gets done. The AI Innovation Attorney – Transactional and Advisory will partner with the firm’s transactional and advisory practices to identify and implement high-value opportunities to use AI, redesign workflows, and improve how legal work is delivered. This is an opportunity for an experienced lawyer with a transactional or advisory background who is actively using generative AI and wants to help shape the future of transactional and advisory practice. The ideal candidate will bring strong AI fluency, an informed point of view about how generative AI can improve transactional and advisory work, sound judgment about its limitations, and the credibility to serve as a trusted peer.

Responsibilities

Partner with transactional and advisory practices and redesign workflows

• Build trusted relationships with practice leaders, lawyers, and other professionals and develop a detailed understanding of how work is handled across practices and matters.
• Analyze workflows, identify pain points, and prioritize opportunities for AI and process improvement.
• Advise lawyers on where AI can meaningfully improve legal work and where it cannot or should not be used.
• Help lawyers use AI in live matters by selecting the right tools, structuring effective prompts and context, and bringing in cross‑functional expertise—while preserving legal judgment, confidentiality, quality, and appropriate lawyer oversight.

Develop and scale AI-enabled capabilities

• Lead pilots and initiatives from problem definition through design, testing, implementation, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as a power user and practice-facing expert for the firm’s AI platforms, building and testing prompts, workflow agents, and matter‑specific solutions.
• Establish clear success criteria and evaluate solutions using representative matters, exemplar work product, lawyer-defined quality standards, and structured feedback.
• Convert successful approaches into reusable workflow agents, playbooks, prompts, templates, and knowledge assets that can be adapted across practices, matters, and clients.
• Bring together practicing lawyers and experts in legal engineering, applied AI, knowledge management, data, technology, training, project management, and vendor solutions to develop high‑impact AI-enabled solutions.

Enable lawyers and drive adoption

• Provide practical guidance through consultations, demonstrations, working sessions, office hours, and individual support.
• Design and deliver training and practical resources that translate AI capabilities, limitations, and governance requirements into concrete use cases and help lawyers determine when to use available tools, structure effective workflows, and evaluate outputs.

Advance client value and firm strategy

• Partner with lawyers and client teams to develop differentiated approaches to transactional and advisory service delivery and support client‑facing proposals, demonstrations, and engagements.
• Stay current on AI, agentic workflows, legal technology, legal service delivery, and the vendor market, translating developments into practical recommendations.

Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing.
• At least five years of substantive transactional or advisory legal experience.
• A deep understanding of transactional and advisory workflows, lawyer decision‑making, quality standards, and the demands of client service.
• Active, hands‑on experience using generative AI in legal work, with an informed point of view about where it can impact quality, efficiency, and outcomes in transactional and advisory work.
• Ability to translate among legal, technical, and business audiences and turn ambiguous needs into practical solutions.
• Strong project ownership, organization, and follow‑through, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives and stakeholders.
• A practical, curious, and low‑ego mindset, including a willingness to experiment, learn from failure, challenge assumptions constructively, and remain accountable for results.

About Us

Known for its commitment to action and tangible results, Cozen O'Connor has rapidly grew to become one of North America's fastest-growing law firms. Offering full-service expertise in litigation, business law, and government relations, the firm serves a diverse clientele, including global Fortune 500 companies, growing middle‑market firms, startups, and high‑profile individuals. Established in 1970, Cozen O’Connor has more than 1,000 attorneys who help clients manage risk and make better business decisions. The firm counsels clients on their most sophisticated legal matters in all areas of the law, including litigation, corporate, and regulatory law. Representing a broad array of leading global corporations and middle market companies, Cozen O’Connor services its clients’ needs through 35 offices across two continents. The firm is consistently ranked among the top 100 law firms in America and has received recognition from prestigious legal and business organizations such as Chambers & Partners, The American Lawyer, The Legal 500, and Best Lawyers. Cozen O'Connor is dedicated to excellence and strives to achieve the right results for its clients, no matter how complex or critical the legal challenges.

Inclusion & Diversity

Cozen O’Connor is committed to fostering greater inclusion in the legal profession. We understand the organizational effectiveness that comes from welcoming and valuing differences within the firm, and we know that assembling a team with a breadth of perspectives and experience is necessary to provide the highest quality legal service.

Cozen O’Connor actively welcomes applicants who have previously left the workforce and are looking to return to their careers. Gaps in experience are not penalized.

Cozen O’Connor is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans.