Legal Tech & Innovation Counsel

Cooley LLP

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 225,000 - 285,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

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Life insurance

AD&D

Long-term care

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Job summary

Cooley LLP in Seattle seeks an Innovation Counsel to advance the firm's practice-specific technology initiatives. You will work with leaders, resource attorneys, and education teams to drive best practices for leveraging legal technology and differentiate the firm.

Responsibilities include leading cross‑functional projects, developing playbooks, conducting executive briefings, and measuring adoption. A JD and 4+ years in legal tech are preferred; travel may be required.

Qualifications

After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications.
Ability to travel, as required.
4+ years direct applicable experience (e.g., legal practice experience, hands-on experience with legal technology use and adoption efforts).
Active member in good standing or registered in-house counsel of the bar(s) in all jurisdictions from which you regularly work, as well as the jurisdiction in which your assigned office is located, if applicable.
Juris Doctor(ate) or non-US equivalent.
Experience in supporting and driving cross-functional projects involving legal technology teams, knowledge management teams, technology teams and practice group leadership.
Understanding of large law firm financial and work allocation processes.

Responsibilities

Support and provide attorney-level input on targeted legal technology adoption initiatives impacting the firm's practice groups.
Design and prepare meaningful playbooks to help practice groups understand and implement best practices around the use of innovation technologies and processes.
Organize presentations, status reports, and executive briefings.
Collaborate closely with leadership in the innovation, firm operations, technology and practice groups in the request/initiative prioritization process, both in sharing insight gleaned from work with the practice groups and in evangelizing the existence and value of the prioritization process to the practice groups.
Collaborate with other innovation teams to develop objectives, success metrics, and timelines related to legal technology adoption initiatives in the practice groups.
Collaborate with practice management teams, legal project management and pricing teams to analyze workflows and develop efficiency strategies leveraging legal technologies.
Work with other innovation teams to drive legal technology pilots, deployments, proofs of concept, experiments, and continuous improvements.
Work with the change management team to develop communication campaigns and change measurement processes.
Develop and maintain practice group-specific resources and scale such efforts with Practice Engineering and other departments.
Additional responsibilities based on evolving needs of the firm.