Senior Practice Innovation Analyst

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401k with employer contribution

Parental leave

Transit fringe benefit program

Back-up care option

Generous paid time off

Job summary

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP seeks a Senior Practice Innovation Analyst to lead the design and deployment of innovative legal technology across practices. The role collaborates with attorneys, clients, and internal teams to deliver AI-powered solutions and process improvements.

Based in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, or Washington D.C., the position offers a hybrid work model and opportunities to pilot tools, build business cases, and advance the firm’s technology roadmap while working with

Qualifications

• J.D. degree preferred with 3+ years in a large law firm or legal tech
• Experience with legal tech tools, AI, and automation in a professional setting
• Ability to evaluate and pilot new legal tech, build business cases, and present to stakeholders
• Strong writing, editing, and communication skills for diverse audiences

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with lawyers, clients, and teams to drive innovation
• Design and deliver innovative client solutions and legal technologies
• Research and pilot tools, build ROI analyses to support recommendations
• Develop training materials and user guides for adoption of new tech
• Partner with data science team to deliver data-driven solutions
• Lead vendor evaluations and platform integration projects
• Oversee project intake, governance, and workflow architecture
• Coordinate AI initiatives including prompt engineering and workflows
• Advocate for innovation within the firm and with leadership

Skills

Legal tech experience

Generative AI tools

Document automation

Data querying/analysis

Project management

Communication skills

Education

Juris Doctor (J.D.) preferred

Tools

Harvey

CoCounsel

Legora

Avvoka

Draftwise

SharePoint

Power BI

SQL

Python

Job description

Katten is a full-service law firm with approximately 650 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai. Clients seeking sophisticated, high-value legal services turn to Katten for counsel locally, nationally and internationally. The firm’s core areas of practice include corporate, financial markets and funds, restructuring, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, structured finance and securitization, transactional tax planning, private credit and private wealth. Katten represents public and private companies in numerous industries, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals.

Nearly 50 years ago, 24 attorneys in Chicago had a vision to create a law firm more innovative and entrepreneurial than those they had left. Their inspiration was their clients and finding even better ways to provide superb legal services and creative advice to them. Our business has evolved over the decades—but our vision remains the same. Today, Katten Muchin Rosenman is the full-service, business-oriented law firm that our founders envisioned, providing sophisticated, high-value legal services across the United States and abroad.

The Senior Practice Innovation Analyst can be located in our Chicago, New York, Los Angeles or Washington D.C. office. Katten offers a hybrid work model, allowing the flexibility to work both on-site and remotely on a regular basis (KattenFlex).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

include, but may not be limited to, the following. Other duties may be requested and/or assigned. Essential functions are primary job duties that an individual must be able to perform successfully with or without a reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Collaborate with lawyers, clients, firm leadership, and operational teams, including Practice Management, Talent, Information Technology, Marketing and Business Development, and Finance, to grow the firm's culture of innovation.
• Participate in engagements with attorney teams, clients, and practice groups to design and deliver innovative client solutions and legal technologies that support the efficient management of legal matters.
• Maintain a current, in-depth awareness of emerging technology tools (both generally and among law firms and legal departments), and translate that awareness into concrete recommendations to keep the firm ahead of the curve.
• Research, evaluate, and pilot tools and procedures that promote productivity and service quality, including building business cases and basic ROI/benefit analyses to support recommendations.
• Develop and maintain clear and accessible training materials, user guides, and communications that support the firm's innovation initiatives and help attorneys and business professionals adopt emerging technologies and process improvements.
• Partner with our data science team, Katten DataLAB, to scope and deliver solutions to client challenges and needs, contributing hands‑on data analysis, building queries, and developing automated reporting where needed.
• Build and maintain relationships with existing and potential vendors; lead coordination of platform updates and the identification/vetting of potential new platforms, including technical evaluation of integration and configuration requirements.
• Participate in implementation of new processes, including configuring, integrating, and customizing software solutions for attorneys and practice groups—working with APIs, data mappings, and platform settings—with minimal oversight.
• Assist team governance and operational efficiency by owning documentation, workflow tracking, project intake, and other processes that ensure smooth and consistent execution of innovation priorities.
• Lead the coordination and execution of software pilot programs—identifying and testing use cases, scheduling trainings, gathering feedback, and conducting gap analysis— and make go/no-go recommendations based on results.
• Serve as an internal and external advocate for the innovation team and new solutions that benefit the firm and our clients, including representing the team in conversations with senior firm leadership and practice group heads.
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders within the firm's practice departments to socialize the benefits of emerging technology tools, independently drive projects through to completion, and identify/vet potential new use cases.
• Maintain working‑level familiarity with new products and developments in legal innovation and software, and assess their fit for the firm's technology roadmap.
• Be an active participant in the firm's AI and Gen AI efforts, including hands‑on prompt engineering, workflow development, output evaluation, and building AI‑powered solutions for specific practice needs.
• Independently manage projects under the general direction of the Practice Innovation Advisor, including scoping, timeline management, and stakeholder communication.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• A Juris Doctor degree (J.D.) is preferred and three (3) or more years of experience working within a large law firm or in the legal technology industry highly preferred; or equivalent combination of education and experience. The ideal candidate will have hands‑on technical experience and/or formal training in emerging legal technologies, software implementation, process automation, and/or data science. We are looking for someone who is eager to build and configure solutions — not just evaluate them — and who can work independently and exercise sound technical judgment on ambiguous or complex problems.
• Experience with several of the following, including configuration-, administration-, or power‑user‑level experience with at least two:
• Legal-focused generative AI tools (such as Harvey, CoCounsel, Legora).
• Document automation tools (such as Avvoka).
• Document analysis tools (such as Draftwise).
• Collaboration platforms (such as SharePoint, HighQ, etc.); and/or Business Intelligence/ETL platforms.
• General AI tools like Claude, OpenAI and Perplexity, with demonstrated experience evaluating output quality and designing effective prompts/workflows.
• Working knowledge of data querying/analysis (e.g., SQL, Excel/Power BI) and/or basic scripting or low‑code automation development (e.g., Python, Power Automate, APIs) sufficient to build workflows, manipulate data, integrate platforms, and deliver data‑driven solutions.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating, piloting, and recommending new legal technology tools, including building business cases and basic ROI analyses, and presenting recommendations to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Displays intelligence, creativity, resilience, and persistence in solving varied, complex, and non‑routine problems.
• Displays excellent time management and project management skills to meet objectives and deadlines across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Able to effectively distill complex information, synthesize, simplify, and present to Firm Management, attorneys, and business professionals.
• Possess excellent reading, writing, grammar, spelling, punctuation, proofreading, and formatting skills in order to interpret and analyze source data, prepare correspondence and documentation, and proofread material for grammatical, typographical and spelling errors.
• Able to perform mathematical calculations and apply mathematical concepts when computing, reconciling balances, verifying numerical data, and preparing various reports.
• Able to operate standard office equipment including computers, printers, telephones, photocopiers, scanners, calculators, facsimiles, etc.
• Able to regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

The annualized salary range for this position is $115,000 - $135,000. Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience and other job‑related factors permitted by law.

We offer an outstanding benefit package which includes: medical/dental/vision, 401k with employer contribution, parental leave, transportation fringe benefit program, back-up care option, generous paid time off policy and long‑term and short‑term disability policies.

Katten will consider for employment qualified Applicants with Criminal Histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of Article 9 to Chapter XVII of the Los Angeles Municipal Code.

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP in an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.