Innovation Attorney - Client Team Enablement

Latham & Watkins LLP; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare insurance

401k plan

11+ paid holidays per year

PTO 23 days first year

Job summary

Latham & Watkins LLP is seeking an Innovation Attorney within the AI & Legal Innovation team to help deliver client-specific AI and legal technology solutions. You will collaborate with partners, clients, and technology teams to apply AI to legal workflows and drive practical outcomes.

The role supports engagements from scoping through delivery, and is located in New York, Washington DC, or Los Angeles with a hybrid schedule.

Qualifications

• Experience applying AI to legal workflows.
• Strong understanding of legal workflows and firm operations.
• Ability to support complex client engagements from discovery through delivery.

Responsibilities

• Support scoping, design, and delivery of client-specific AI engagements.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI and legal tech to workflows and service delivery.
• Advise on practical AI applications, capabilities, and required human oversight.
• Move client opportunities from discovery to implementation and ongoing support.
• Collaborate with AI, Innovation, and technology teams to meet client needs.

Skills

AI & Legal Innovation

Generative AI

Legal technology

Client engagements

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

J.D. or equivalent

Job description

About Latham & Watkins

Latham & Watkins is one of the world's leading global law firms advising the businesses and institutions that drive the global economy. We are the market leaders in major financial and business centers around the world.

Our investment in people, commitment to innovation, and focus on the future empower you to build an incredible career and thrive as an exceptional professional in a supportive culture.

If you aspire to be the best, and work with the best, this is where you belong.

About the Role

The Innovation Attorney - Client Team Enablement is senior individual contributor within the AI & Legal Innovation team, responsible for supporting the delivery of client-specific AI and legal technology solutions.

Working in alignment with the Manager, AI & Innovation - Client Solutions, this role supports partners and clients in identifying opportunities to apply artificial intelligence and legal technology to specific legal workflows and contributes to the development and delivery of practical solutions.

The Innovation Attorney partners closely with practicing lawyers, Technology Client Services, Business Development, and technology teams to ensure that client engagements are executed effectively and in accordance with firm and client requirements.

As part of the broader AI & Legal Innovation function, the Innovation Attorney contributes to the firm's mission of identifying, adopting, and promoting leading technologies that enhance lawyer performance and deliver measurable client value.

This role will be located in either our New York, Washington D.C., or Los Angeles (Century City) office. Please note that this role may be eligible for a flexible working schedule that allows for a hybrid and in-office presence.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

• Supporting the scoping, design, and delivery of client-specific AI engagements, including workflow development, pilots, workshops, and other collaborative innovation initiatives
• Working with partners, client teams, and clients to identify and assess opportunities to apply AI and legal technology to legal workflows and service delivery
• Advising partners and clients on the practical application of AI to legal work, including capabilities, limitations, appropriate use, and required human oversight
• Supporting moving client opportunities from initial discovery through solution design, testing, implementation, and ongoing support
• Working across AI & Legal Innovation and technology teams to connect client needs with the firm's approved AI, legal technology, automation, and related capabilities
• Ensuring client-specific AI work is delivered with appropriate quality, documentation, confidentiality, information security, and compliance with firm and client requirements
• Identifying recurring client needs, successful approaches, and capability gaps, and shares those insights with the Manager and broader team to inform reusable solutions and the AI & Legal Innovation agenda
• Collaborating with Business Development teams to prepare technology-related content for panels, pitches, RFPs, and client discussions as needed
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

We'd love to hear from you if you:

• Demonstrate strong practical knowledge of artificial intelligence, generative AI, legal technology, and their application to legal service delivery
• Exhibit strong understanding of legal workflows, law firm operations, and the needs of sophisticated legal clients
• Possess the ability to support complex client engagements from discovery through delivery
• Apply advanced analytical and problem-solving skills to complex issues and make well-reasoned recommendations

And have:

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent
• A J.D. or equivalent
• A minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience within a law firm or legal environment
• Established interest in and knowledge of legal technology and AI tools, including Generative AI
• Some prior experience as a practicing attorney, preferably

Benefits & Additional Information

Successful candidates will not only be provided with an outstanding career opportunity and welcoming environment, but will also be provided with a generous total compensation package with bonuses awarded in recognition of both individual and firm performance. Eligible employees can participate in Latham's comprehensive benefit program which includes:

• Healthcare, life and disability insurance
• A generous 401k plan
• At least 11 paid holidays per year, and a PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
• Well-being programs (e.g. mental health services, mindfulness and resiliency, medical resources, well-being events, and more)
• Professional development programs
• Employee discounts
• Affinity groups, networks, and coalitions for lawyers and staff

Latham & Watkins is an equal oppo