Legal Engineer (Attorney)

Consilio LLC; Illinois; On-site; USD 170,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio Company, seeks an experienced attorney to join as a Legal Engineer (Attorney) on a long-term, temporary basis. This role requires candidates to be located in California; Atlanta, GA; Houston, TX; or Chicago, IL, and involves close collaboration with Account Executives and the Go-to-Market team.

You will engage General Counsels and in-house teams to explore how AI can transform legal operations, identify opportunities, and translate them into practical solutions.

Qualifications

• Licensed attorney with meaningful in-house experience in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• Ability to engage credibly with General Counsels, Heads of Legal, Legal Operations professionals, procurement teams, and business leaders.
• Strong consultative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Account Executives throughout the sales cycle, bringing firsthand in-house legal experience to discovery, demonstrations, and commercial conversations.
• Lead tailored product demonstrations for in-house legal teams, connecting the technology to the operational realities of corporate legal departments.
• Conduct detailed discovery conversations to understand how legal departments are structured, how work flows, where inefficiencies exist, and where AI can deliver meaningful value.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI across areas such as contract management, regulatory compliance, matter management, legal operations, and external counsel oversight.
• Provide hands-on support during pilots and evaluation periods, helping customers connect their business needs with the technology.
• Translate the value of AI into practical business outcomes, including reduced cycle times, increased efficiency, risk reduction, cost savings, and greater capacity for strategic work.
• Help legal and finance stakeholders evaluate and articulate the business case and ROI for AI adoption.
• Map how AI can impact specific legal functions, workflows, and operating models.
• Serve as the voice of the in-house customer within the Go-to-Market organization, providing insight into how corporate legal departments think, prioritize, and make technology purchasing decisions.
• Partner with product, engineering, and legal engineering teams to translate customer feedback and real-world legal needs into actionable product requirements.
• Help shape product development and roadmap priorities based on insights from legal operations, commercial legal, and compliance teams.
• Contribute to commercial messaging, content, and collateral designed for General Counsels, Legal Operations leaders, and in-house legal teams.
• Contribute to the development and growth of the company's legal engineering function and customer engagement model.

Skills

In-house experience

Licensed attorney

Stakeholder engagement

Client-facing

Job description

Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio Company, is one of the largest and fastest growing global legal services businesses, and as a ‘new law’ pioneer, we continue to lead the market we’ve created.

With a global team of over 600 attorneys and consultants working across our secondments, legal advisory services, and legal operations & tech solutions, we want you to be a part of our exciting journey!

Lawyers on Demand (LOD), a Consilio company, is assisting a legal technology company in seeking an experienced attorney with in-house legal experience to join its team as a Legal Engineer (Attorney) on a long-term, temporary basis. This role will require candidates to be located in California; Atlanta, GA; Houston, TX; or Chicago, IL.

In this role, the attorney will work closely with Account Executives and the broader Go-to-Market team to engage with General Counsels, Heads of Legal, Legal Operations leaders, and in-house attorneys throughout the sales and customer lifecycle. The attorney will help legal teams understand how AI can transform legal operations, identify opportunities for meaningful impact, and translate those opportunities into practical solutions and successful adoption.

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 6-12 months, with the possibility of extension
• Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week
• Location: California; Houston, TX; Chicago, IL; Atlanta, GA
• Pay Rate: Starting at $150 hourly, dependent on experience

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Account Executives throughout the sales cycle, bringing firsthand in-house legal experience and credibility to discovery, demonstrations, and commercial conversations.
• Lead tailored product demonstrations for in-house legal teams, connecting the technology to the operational realities of corporate legal departments.
• Conduct detailed discovery conversations to understand how legal departments are structured, how work flows, where inefficiencies exist, and where AI can deliver meaningful value.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI across areas such as contract management, regulatory compliance, matter management, legal operations, and external counsel oversight.
• Provide hands-on support during pilots and evaluation periods, helping customers connect their business needs with the technology.
• Translate the value of AI into practical business outcomes, including reduced cycle times, increased efficiency, risk reduction, cost savings, and greater capacity for strategic work.
• Help legal and finance stakeholders evaluate and articulate the business case and ROI for AI adoption.
• Map how AI can impact specific legal functions, workflows, and operating models.
• Serve as the voice of the in-house customer within the Go-to-Market organization, providing insight into how corporate legal departments think, prioritize, and make technology purchasing decisions.
• Partner with product, engineering, and legal engineering teams to translate customer feedback and real-world legal needs into actionable product requirements.
• Help shape product development and roadmap priorities based on insights from legal operations, commercial legal, and compliance teams.
• Contribute to commercial messaging, content, and collateral designed for General Counsels, Legal Operations leaders, and in-house legal teams.
• Contribute to the development and growth of the company's legal engineering function and customer engagement model.

Qualifications

• Licensed attorney with meaningful in-house legal experience, whether within a corporation, financial institution, technology company, or other sophisticated organization.
• Must be actively licensed in at least one U.S jurisdiction
• Understanding of how in-house legal organizations are structured and how decisions are made across legal leadership, Legal Operations, procurement, and business teams.
• Ability to engage credibly with a broad range of stakeholders, including General Counsels, Heads of Legal, Legal Operations professionals, procurement teams, and business leaders.
• Ability to effectively bridge legal, commercial, technical, and operational conversations.
• Strong consultative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Genuine curiosity about AI and a strong interest in how emerging technology can reshape the in-house legal function.
• Experience in legal operations, legal technology procurement, or technology implementation is preferred.
• Familiarity with legal technology platforms such as contract lifecycle management, matter management, e-billing, and compliance systems is a plus.
• Experience with change management or large-scale technology implementation and adoption programs is preferred.
• Prior experience in a client-facing, commercial, consulting, business development, or secondment role is a plus.

LOD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion is a core part of our Ways of Working, and we celebrate and embrace it. We know the individual differences of our people make us collectively better and we encourage all applicants; including people with disability, career breaks, gender diverse, LGBTQIA, and culturally diverse communities to join us so we can do great things together.