Innovation Attorney: AI & Legal Tech Strategist

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 250,000 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Mental well-being programs

Parental leave

HSA contributions

401(k) program

Paid holidays

Flexible time off

Job summary

Orrick seeks a Technology Companies Group (TCG) Innovation Attorney to lead and support efforts to optimize legal service delivery through people, process, and technology. The role collaborates across offices, reports to the Managing Director of Practice Innovation, and works with the TCG practice group.

The position involves coordinating AI-enabled workflows, evaluating technology, and driving adoption of digital tools.

Qualifications

• Juris doctorate (J.D.) from an accredited university or college and admission to practice in good standing in a US jurisdiction required.
• Five (5) years minimum experience in a large law firm focusing on private offerings, venture capital, and transactions for emerging companies.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills with ability to present complex ideas to attorneys, managers, clients, and the public in layman’s terms.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables with limited standardization and direction.
• Familiarity with best practices and technology to manage workflows, documents and communications.
• Familiarity with and enthusiasm about legal technology, including opportunities to leverage AI and generative AI in legal services.
• Experience with designing AI-powered workflows or agents.
• Understanding of knowledge management, practice and project management and efficiency to meet business goals.
• Excellent analytical, project management, prioritization, and organization skills.
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently and handle multiple tasks.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support projects to optimize client service delivery within the TCG practice group.
• Coordinate and drive automation and digitization of the practice.
• Support data strategy, matter and deal data tracking, and usage metrics.
• Serve as product manager for select technology and promote adoption and ROI.
• Promote and train on generative AI use cases for the practice group.
• Design AI-powered workflows or agents and establish guardrails and testing protocols.
• Contribute to the TCG deal data dashboard and translate data into insights for leadership and clients.
• Develop and maintain knowledge bases and practice content workflows.

Skills

Communication

Project management

AI / generative AI

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Self-starting

Travel readiness

Interpersonal skills

Education

Juris Doctor (J.D.)

Job description

Orrick seeks a Technology Companies Group (TCG) Innovation Attorney to lead and support efforts to optimize legal service delivery through people, process, and technology. The role collaborates across offices, reports to the Managing Director of Practice Innovation, and works with the TCG practice group.

The position involves coordinating AI-enabled workflows, evaluating technology, and driving adoption of digital tools.