Legal Engineer (Lawyer) - Leading Global Law Firm
Robert Walters
London
Full-time
This listing is from Reed
A prestigious international law firm is seeking a Legal Engineer to join its expanding Innovation team in London. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced, qualified lawyer who is passionate about the intersection of law and technology, particularly artificial intelligence
Key responsibilities:
- Engage with partners, associates, trainees, and knowledge lawyers across relevant practice areas to understand how matters are run and identify processes where AI can add significant value.
- Translate legal requirements into structured prompts, workflows, and playbooks that the firm's AI platforms can execute reliably.
- Redesign traditional legal work for an AI-first approach by going beyond current AI-enabled workflows to innovate new ways of working.
- Establish credibility as a hands-on expert on legal problems solved with AI such as drafting contractual provisions, analysing filings or briefs, knowledge retrieval, and matter management.
- Design, build, prototype quickly, test rigorously for reliability, and hand over robust workflows on the firm's AI platforms to knowledge lawyers for ongoing ownership.
- Lead the firm's efforts on AI quality assurance and benchmarking by developing rigorous evaluation frameworks and ensuring high standards are maintained.
- Run regular engagement sessions with knowledge lawyers and applied AI experts to keep them updated on product developments from the Innovation team.
- Spot common solution patterns across practice areas to deduplicate effort where similar tools or workflows are being developed independently.
- Partner with knowledge lawyers on practice translation by helping encode their expertise into actionable AI-driven solutions while linking their work across the firm.
- Advise on appropriate technology choices from the firm's tech stack for specific tasks by gathering feedback from stakeholders and acting as the voice of practice into product management decisions.
- Qualified lawyer (England & Wales or equivalent jurisdiction) with typically 5+ years' post-qualification experience at a top-tier firm; more junior candidates with relevant profiles are encouraged to apply.
- Substantive experience in Transactions & Advisory or Disputes at a top-tier firm with sufficient depth to discuss contracts or filings confidently with partners.
- Credibility among partners and associates demonstrated by your ability to hold meaningful conversations about contracts or deals on their merits while earning trust for process improvement suggestions.
- Curiosity about technology & artificial intelligence coupled with willingness to get hands-on with tools; no coding background required but comfort with prompts evaluations structured outputs essential.
- Direct recent experience using leading legal AI platforms (such as Harvey Legora Claude M365 Copilot) on real legal tasks including insight into their strengths weaknesses & practical application strategies.
- Track record of having shipped legal-tech adjacent products such as workflows playbooks evaluation sets internal tools prompt libraries or knowledge products rather than just theoretical designs.
- Comfort working collaboratively with product managers engineers vendors demonstrated by secondments tool roll-outs contributions outside traditional law roles or innovation team involvement.
- Strong structuring instinct enabling you to turn messy tacit ways of working into authorable testable shippable solutions that drive efficiency & clarity.
- Quality-minded discipline shown through rigorous testing before shipping designing robust evaluations & knowing when solutions require further refinement before deployment.
- Clear concise communication skills allowing you to translate complex concepts across disciplines comfortably engaging both senior partners & technical specialists.
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