Practice Innovation Attorney (Litigation)

Husch Blackwell; Clayton (MO); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan eligibility

Job summary

Husch Blackwell LLP is seeking a Practice Innovation Attorney to serve as the innovation partner for the Litigation PSC, enhancing legal service delivery through knowledge management, workflow optimization, and technology adoption.

You will analyze workflows, develop reusable knowledge assets, design AI-enabled workflows, and help attorneys adopt innovative ways of working, bridging legal practice with technology and business teams.

Qualifications

• Must hold a J.D. or equivalent and a 4-year degree.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a practicing attorney or in knowledge management, innovation, or legal operations.
• Proven experience with legal technology, generative AI, knowledge management, and process improvement.
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills; ability to influence without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Practice Innovation liaison for the Litigation PSC and advise on innovation and knowledge management.
• Identify opportunities to improve legal service delivery, knowledge sharing, productivity, and client value.
• Translate practice and client needs into actionable knowledge, workflows, and technology initiatives.
• Lead knowledge management and workflow improvement projects from concept through implementation.
• Evaluate and pilot legal technology and AI tools; provide recommendations on adoption and retirement.

Skills

Relationship-building

Stakeholder management

Knowledge management

Innovation

Legal technology

Education

J.D. or equivalent

Tools

Generative AI tools

Job description

Husch Blackwell LLP is a full-service litigation and business law firm with multiple locations across the United States, serving clients with domestic and international operations. We foster an engaged, diverse, and inclusive team culture of accountability and purpose that makes our Firm and our communities better.

Our firm is committed to attracting and retaining professionals who value each other and the service we provide by embracing Teamwork, Collaboration, Client Service, and Innovation. If you are a motivated professional looking for a long-term fit where you can grow in a role, and will be valued and empowered, then we invite you to apply to our Practice Innovation Attorney position. This position will be remote.

The Practice Innovation Attorney serves as the innovation partner for the Litigation Practice Specialty Centers (PSC), helping improve legal service delivery through practice innovation, knowledge management, workflow optimization, and technology adoption. Working closely with practice leaders, attorneys, and business teams, the Practice Innovation Attorney identifies and implements innovative approaches that improve legal service delivery, increase scalability, and strengthen client outcomes while ensuring work product remains guided by attorney judgment.

This role analyzes legal workflows, develops reusable legal knowledge assets, and designs and implements AI-enabled workflows and solutions, and helps attorneys adopt innovative ways of working. The Practice Innovation Attorney serves as a bridge between legal practitioners, Practice Innovation, technology teams, and other business functions to translate practice needs into practical, sustainable solutions that improve attorney effectiveness and client value.

Practice Partnership

• Serve as the primary Practice Innovation liaison for the Litigation PSC, providing strategic advice on innovation and knowledge management matters.
• Build trusted relationships with attorneys and practice leaders to identify opportunities to improve legal service delivery, knowledge sharing, productivity, and client value.
• Translate practice and client needs into actionable knowledge, innovation, workflow, and technology initiatives.
• Facilitate collaboration between attorneys and business teams to develop and implement practical solutions.

Innovation & Asset Development

• Develop, prototype, test, refine, maintain, and govern practice-specific knowledge assets, including playbooks, knowledge repositories, precedents, databases, workflows, templates, prompts, skills, and other solutions that can be reused across matters and practice groups.
• Capture attorney experience, institutional knowledge, and best practices, translating them into scalable assets that improve consistency, quality, and client value across the firm.
• Analyze legal workflows and deliverables to identify opportunities for automation, AI enablement, workflow improvement, and client-facing solutions, and translate successful practices into scalable workflows, knowledge assets, and reusable firm resources.
• Evaluate and pilot legal technology and AI tools, including performing comparative analyses and providing recommendations about purchase, expansion, and retirement of solutions.

Attorney Enablement & Adoption

• Develop and deliver training, workshops, demonstrations, and support materials related to knowledge resources, technology, and innovation initiatives, in coordination with the Learning team.
• Advise attorneys and business professionals regarding effective use of firm tools, knowledge assets, and workflows.
• Monitor adoption, usage, feedback, and implementation barriers and adjust training, communications, and solution design accordingly.
• Lead innovation, knowledge management, and workflow improvement projects for the Litigation PSC from concept through implementation.
• Contribute to the development of client-facing solutions, alternative service delivery models, and other strategic innovation initiatives.
• Support client presentations, demonstrations, feedback sessions, proposals, and business development initiatives that showcase the firm’s Practice Innovation capabilities.
• Measure, communication, and continuously improve the impact of Practice Innovation initiatives through adoption metrics, stakeholder feedback, lessons learned, and outcome assessment.
• Capture and share successful use cases, implementation lessons, and innovation success stories to expand impact across PSCs and the broader firm.
• Monitor developments in legal technology, knowledge management, artificial intelligence, and legal service delivery and participate in relevant firm, client, and industry events.

Requirements

• D. and a 4-year degree in a relevant field required.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a practicing attorney or in knowledge management, innovation, or legal operations.
• Proven experience with legal technology, generative AI, knowledge management principles, and process improvement.
• Exceptional relationship-building, consulting, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and drive change without direct authority.

The above is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this job. The Firm will provide reasonable accommodations as necessary to allow an individual with a disability to apply for and/or perform the essential functions of a position. If you need assistance to accommodate a disability, please contact HR.

The exact compensation will vary based on skills, experience, location, and other factors permitted by law. The above salaries do not include a discretionary bonus, however bonus opportunities are non-guaranteed, and are dependent upon individual and firm performance.

Full-time employees receive benefits including: medical and dental coverage; life insurance; short-term and long-term disability insurance; pre-tax flexible spending account for certain medical and dependent care expenses; an employee assistance program; paid holidays; participation in a retirement plan program after meeting eligibility requirements;

EOE/Minority/Female/Disabled/Vet.

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