Remote Practice Innovation Attorney (Litigation)

Husch Blackwell LLP; Los Angeles (CA); À distance; USD 155 000 - 317 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical and dental coverage

Life insurance

Short-term and long-term disability

Pre-tax flexible spending account

Paid Time Off

Paid holidays

Retirement plan

Employee assistance program

Résumé du poste

Husch Blackwell LLP is seeking a Practice Innovation Attorney to lead knowledge management, workflow optimization, and AI-enabled solutions within the Litigation PSC. The role acts as a bridge between legal practice, technology, and business teams to implement scalable, attorney-guided innovations that enhance service delivery and client outcomes.

You will develop reusable knowledge assets, pilot legal tech tools, and drive adoption through training and stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• J.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.
• Demonstrated ability to identify business challenges, develop practical, scalable solutions, and drive organizational change.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with diverse teams and communicate complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Exceptional relationship-building, consulting, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and drive change without direct authority.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive and innovative mindset.

Responsabilités

• 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.
• Develop, prototype, test, refine, maintain, and govern practice-specific knowledge assets, including playbooks, knowledge repositories, precedents, databases, workflows, templates, prompts, skills, and other solutions.
• 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.
• Coordinate with technology and business teams to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, sustainable, and aligned with firm governance requirements.
• 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.
• Promote adoption through practical use cases, demonstrations, pilot programs, and ongoing engagement with practice groups.
• Gather user feedback and adoption insights to refine solutions and maximize business impact.
• 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, communicate, 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.

Connaissances

Legal innovation

Knowledge management

AI in legal

Stakeholder management

Change management

Formation

J.D. and a 4-year degree

Description du poste

Husch Blackwell LLP is seeking a Practice Innovation Attorney to lead knowledge management, workflow optimization, and AI-enabled solutions within the Litigation PSC. The role acts as a bridge between legal practice, technology, and business teams to implement scalable, attorney-guided innovations that enhance service delivery and client outcomes.

You will develop reusable knowledge assets, pilot legal tech tools, and drive adoption through training and stakeholder engagement.