Legal Engineer, Litigation

NRF United Kingdom; Houston (TX); Presencial; USD 120.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical insurance plans

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) and profit-sharing plans

Descripción de la vacante

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP seeks a Legal Engineer – Litigation to design, build, and adopt AI-enabled workflows for disputes. This hands-on role partners with lawyers, eDiscovery, IT, and Knowledge Management to deploy practical, compliant solutions that align with professional obligations.

The candidate will identify high-value use cases, prototype workflows, and ensure outputs are accurate, defensible, and secure, while preserving client confidentiality and judgment.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree required; JD preferred or equivalent professional experience in litigation support, legal technology, eDiscovery, legal operations, or related workflows.
• Minimum five years of experience supporting litigation, investigations, arbitration, eDiscovery, legal innovation, legal technology implementation, product delivery, or related workflows.
• Experience with litigation technology, eDiscovery platforms, AI-enabled legal tools, workflow automation, or case management tools; experience with Legora, Harvey, Copilot, or similar platforms preferred.
• Ability to decompose legal workflows, gather requirements, design practical solutions, and support adoption by busy matter teams.

Responsabilidades

• Partner with litigation teams to identify, scope, and prioritize high-value workflows across disputes use cases.
• Design, prototype, test, and support adoption of AI-enabled litigation workflows using firm-approved tools and platforms.
• Develop repeatable prompts, templates, checklists, and workflow patterns for litigation use cases.
• Work with eDiscovery, practice support, and litigation teams to align legal engineering solutions with document review, analytics, case management, and other matter workflows.
• Develop and maintain evaluation methods to test accuracy, completeness, source grounding, and defensibility of AI-assisted litigation outputs.
• Experience developing scalable frameworks, playbooks, reusable knowledge assets or solution patterns.

Conocimientos

Litigation support

eDiscovery tools

AI-enabled tools

Workflow automation

Case management

Educación

Bachelor’s degree; JD preferred

Herramientas

Legora

Harvey

Copilot

Descripción del empleo

Job Description

At Norton Rose Fulbright, people thrive because of a shared commitment to quality, unity and integrity. The highly regarded law firm consistently receives recognition from Great Place to Work and Top Workplaces, two companies that specialize in assessing organizational culture. Teams collaborate across regions, value new ideas and deliver meaningful client solutions, supported by a culture that embraces ambition, development and shared success. With more than 3,000 lawyers and 3,000 business services professionals working together across 50 offices worldwide, this global law firm provides a full range of legal services to leading corporations and financial institutions operating in key markets and sectors.

About You

You are a practical problem solver who understands how litigation teams work and where technology can reduce friction. You are comfortable partnering with lawyers, paralegals, eDiscovery, IT and business services professionals to turn recurring litigation tasks into repeatable workflows, prototypes, and tools. You bring a strong service mindset, sound judgment, and the ability to translate between legal strategy, matter execution, and technical possibilities.

About the Role

Norton Rose Fulbright has a long-standing commitment to leveraging technology to enhance legal services and streamline operations. We are seeking a Legal Engineer – Litigation to support the design, build, and adoption of AI-enabled and technology-assisted workflows for disputes matters. This role sits within the Legal Engineering function and reports to the Head of Legal Engineering, while working closely with litigation practice groups, Innovation, Knowledge Management, and other business services teams. This is a hands-on role for someone who can help litigation teams use approved technology responsibly and effectively. The successful candidate will identify high-value litigation use cases, design practical workflows, support adoption, and help ensure that AI-assisted litigation outputs remain accurate, defensible, secure, and aligned with lawyer professional obligations.

Responsibilities

Litigation Workflow Design & Build

• Partner with litigation teams to identify, scope, and prioritize high-value workflows across various disputes use cases.
• Design, prototype, test, and support adoption of AI-enabled litigation workflows using firm-approved tools and platforms.
• Develop repeatable prompts, templates, checklists, and workflow patterns for litigation use cases such as chronologies, fact development, issue lists, document summaries, deposition preparation, witness preparation, and case strategy support.
• Work with eDiscovery, practice support, and litigation teams to align legal engineering solutions with document review, analytics, case management, and other matter workflows supporting each phase of the litigation cycle.
• Develop and maintain evaluation methods to test accuracy, completeness, source grounding, and defensibility of AI-assisted litigation outputs.
• Experience developing scalable frameworks, playbooks, reusable knowledge assets (including skills), or solution patterns.

Practice Enablement and Adoption

• Partner with the Innovation team and AI & Innovation Counsel to integrate approved AI and automation tools into existing litigation workstreams while preserving lawyer judgment, supervision, confidentiality, and client requirements.
• Create reusable adoption materials, matter intake questions, workflow guides, and examples that help litigation teams recognize when and how to use approved tools.
• Capture lessons learned from pilots and live matters to improve repeatable workflows and contribute to the broader legal engineering roadmap.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Work directly with the Head of Legal Engineering, Innovation leadership, litigation partners, associates, paralegals, eDiscovery, Knowledge Management, IT, and Information Security to co-design practical solutions.
• Partner with the AI Governance & Program Manager and other stakeholders to ensure litigation workflows meet firm standards, client requirements, confidentiality obligations, and responsible AI expectations.
• Act as a translator between litigation needs, technical capabilities, and risk considerations so matter teams can adopt technology with confidence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; JD preferred, or equivalent professional experience in litigation support, legal technology, eDiscovery, legal operations, or professional services.
• Minimum five years of experience supporting litigation, investigations, arbitration, eDiscovery, legal innovation, legal technology implementation, product delivery, or related workflows.
• Strong understanding of how litigation work is performed in practice, including fact development, document review, case organization, pleadings, discovery, depositions, expert work, hearing or trial preparation, and matter management.
• Experience with litigation technology, eDiscovery platforms, AI-enabled legal tools, workflow automation, or case management tools; experience with Legora, Harvey, Copilot, or similar platforms preferred.
• Ability to decompose legal workflows, gather requirements, design practical solutions, and support adoption by busy matter teams.
• Familiarity with AI quality control concepts, including source grounding, verification, defensibility, privilege/confidentiality concerns, and limitations of AI-generated outputs.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and moving iteratively from user need to prototype to scalable workflow.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to translate between legal, technical, and risk stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and deliver results in a fast-paced legal environment.
• Curiosity about the future of litigation practice and the practical implications of AI for legal service delivery.
• Understanding of data privacy, security, client confidentiality, and responsible AI considerations in a law firm or professional services context.

Benefits

• Benefit packages include access to three medical insurance plans, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, and disability insurance.
• Employees can also access pre-tax benefits such as health savings and flexible spending accounts.
• Employees can participate in a 401(k) savings plan and profit-sharing plans if eligible.
• Full-time employees are eligible to access fertility benefits designed to support fertility and family-forming journeys.
• Employees may access commuter benefits where applicable and student loan assistance refinancing options.
• Offers a competitive paid time off plan, which provides a minimum of 20 days off based on your role and tenure with the firm.
• The firm offers a generous paid maternity leave and paid paternity leave (parental leave) benefit allowing parents to take a minimum of 14 weeks of paid leave to bond with your newborn or adopted child(ren).
• Employees may also access child care support through a back-up care program.
• Employees are entitled to 11 firm holidays.

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