Legal Innovation & Knowledge Strategist

Socket.dev; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 195,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Crowell & Moring LLP seeks a Practice Innovation and Knowledge Attorney to strategize and execute practice innovation and knowledge management initiatives across assigned departments. The role liaises with the Practice Innovation team and Practice Groups to identify opportunities, curate content, and implement AI-driven knowledge systems, enhancing client value and efficiency.

The successful candidate will lead change management, collaborate with partners and staff, and drive adoption of

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and a Juris Doctorate, with current bar admission in a jurisdiction where the Firm has an office.
• Minimum of five years of practitioner experience in the practice of law, including client-facing work.
• Experience with knowledge management and/or legal innovation practices preferred.
• Transactional practice experience strongly preferred.
• Experience as a practitioner at an AmLaw 200 firm strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with the Firm's lawyers and operations professionals to assess relevant practice area innovation and knowledge needs, and conceptualizes how to achieve stated business objectives in order to deliver exceptional client service centered on value, cost-effectiveness, efficiency, transparency, and predictability;
• Works with the Practice Innovation team to initiate, scope, and manage practice innovation and knowledge projects, and help develop and implement modern knowledge delivery systems in the assigned practice areas, including systems driven by artificial intelligence and systems accessible by clients;
• Builds relationships with the leaders of the assigned Department(s) and/or Practice Group(s) to create alignment between their strategic objectives and innovation initiatives supporting those practices;
• Works with practicing lawyers and support professionals to implement innovative solutions in ways that reflect change management best practices and promote adoption;
• Works with Practice Management department to curate, manage, and make easily accessible “best of” work product precedents and other knowledge for relevant practice areas;
• Provides direct support to individual practitioners to assist them with overcoming barriers to implementing innovative solutions, including locating practice-related internal and external knowledge across innovation resources, developing effective prompting strategies to achieve desired AI outputs, and/or addressing client requirements with respect to the use of artificial intelligence;
• Monitors recent, relevant legal developments and current market practice developments and trends for the relevant practice, including with respect to the use of artificial intelligence, and keeps attorneys and clients (via Firm platforms) informed of notable developments;
• Connects the dots across one-off emails in search of information to build out experience management resources and direct lawyers to such resources in a “just in time” manner;
• Identifies opportunities and recommend strategies to collect and leverage structured data from unstructured repositories and databases;
• Works with the Pricing and Legal Project Management team to collect data about matters and to train lawyers to use new technologies and workflows to actively manage their matters, document clearly-defined scopes and assumptions, and capture matter metadata in knowledge management systems;
• Works with external technology and service providers to scope and coordinate the automation of document-heavy processes;
• Works with early adopters and champions to implement innovative solutions more broadly in ways that reflect change management best practices and promote adoption;
• Scopes, tests, and recommends solutions to practice pain-points, including working with external technology providers to develop success criteria and set guidelines and commitments for Proof of Concept trials of innovative initiatives;
• Monitors the legal innovation landscape, to gain an understanding of how specific people, processes, and technology can solve legal practice challenges, and to bolster the business case for innovation initiatives; consistently and timely shares strategic insights; serves as a reliable source of legal, market and practical expertise, including in the areas of artificial intelligence and legal innovation more broadly as applied to law firms and the practice of law;
• Performs other duties as assigned or required to meet Firm goals and objectives;
• The Practice Innovation and Knowledge Attorney will not perform client legal work.

Skills

Legal expertise

AI in legal practice

Research and drafting

MS Office

Legal tech familiarity

Workflow knowledge

Content management

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree

Juris Doctorate

Tools

Microsoft Office

Knowledge management systems

Job description

Crowell & Moring LLP seeks a Practice Innovation and Knowledge Attorney to strategize and execute practice innovation and knowledge management initiatives across assigned departments. The role liaises with the Practice Innovation team and Practice Groups to identify opportunities, curate content, and implement AI-driven knowledge systems, enhancing client value and efficiency.

The successful candidate will lead change management, collaborate with partners and staff, and drive adoption of