AI-Powered Litigation Workflow Engineer

Cozen O'Connor Corporation; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cozen O'Connor Corporation is seeking a Legal Engineer - Litigation to design and build AI-enabled workflows for litigation tasks, including document review, discovery responses, and deposition preparation. You will craft prompts, agents, and retrieval pipelines, ensuring governance and human oversight.

The role demands hands-on ML/AI platform experience, familiarity with litigation practices, and ability to translate legal needs into production-ready solutions across firm systems.

Qualifications

• J.D. preferred but not required; candidates with equivalent substantive legal, litigation-support, knowledge-management, or legal-technology experience encouraged.
• 3-5 years of experience in legal practice, legal technology, knowledge management, legal operations, or comparable professional-services environment with hands-on AI/workflow experience.
• Hands-on AI build experience: prompt engineering, AI workflow or agent development, and configuring legal AI platforms.
• Working understanding of litigation workflows and attorney work-product standards.
• Quality and risk discipline: testing, human-review checkpoints, verification steps.
• Comfort iterating in ambiguity: scope, prototype, iterate toward production.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills; teach AI concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Light coding fluency (Python/SQL) and experience with workflow builders is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and engineer AI-enabled litigation workflows across firm-approved platforms.
• Design, build, test, and deploy AI workflows, agents, and skills for litigation use cases.
• Develop and maintain prompt libraries, retrieval pipelines, templates, and decision trees.
• Translate practice requirements into technical specifications and workflow logic.
• Use low-code tools and integrations to extend platforms and connect AI workflows to firm systems.
• Test, evaluate, and harden solutions with governance, guardrails, and risk controls.
• Deploy, maintain, and scale workflows with adoption resources and training.
• Collaborate with AI Innovation Attorneys, Knowledge Management, Security, and vendors to deliver reliable solutions.

Skills

Hands-on AI build

Litigation workflows

Communication & collaboration

Ambiguity tolerance

Low-code / scripting

Education

J.D. preferred

Tools

Microsoft Copilot

Harvey

CoCounsel

Claude

Job description

Cozen O'Connor Corporation is seeking a Legal Engineer - Litigation to design and build AI-enabled workflows for litigation tasks, including document review, discovery responses, and deposition preparation. You will craft prompts, agents, and retrieval pipelines, ensuring governance and human oversight.

The role demands hands-on ML/AI platform experience, familiarity with litigation practices, and ability to translate legal needs into production-ready solutions across firm systems.