Description
As a Practice Innovation Advisor, you will be part of the Practice Innovation team, which supports the firm's strategic goals of enhancing client service, efficiency, and profitability. The complexity, scale, and pace of specific practice group work require customized, tech-enabled solutions that support both attorney workflows and client outcomes.
• Collaborate with legal teams to assess current workflows, identify pain points, and to assess the feasibility, impact, and ROI of potential innovations.
• Designing and running technology pilots from start to finish with minimal oversight, including defining objectives, scope, timeline, budget, metrics, and success criteria, and managing stakeholders, risks, and issues.
• Collaborating with practice groups to socialize new technology and to facilitate adoption and change management.
• Engage with practice group leadership and Knowledge Management attorneys, supporting strategic initiatives and becoming the face of Innovation efforts at practice group meetings and training sessions.
• Ensure cross-functional alignment of practice-specific needs with firmwide innovation initiatives, acting as a bridge between legal teams, innovation professionals, and firm leadership.
• Map existing legal processes and workflows in order to identify opportunities for optimization, automation, and AI enhancements.
• Complete deep dives on practice group use case requests, developing and stress testing workflows and advancing custom-built solutions.
• Work with, identify, develop, and maintain key external vendor relationships. Foster impactful engagements with Pre-Sales, Customer Success, and Product touchpoints.
• Understand and address potential risks of emerging technology, working closely with Innovation Enablement and Responsible AI personnel to ethically and effectively deploy new legal technology.
• Promote a culture of innovation and continuous learning within the firm, by sharing insights, best practices, and lessons learned.
• Staying informed of new technology, market trends, and best practices in the legal industry and beyond, and sharing insights and recommendations with the Practice Innovation team and the firm.
• Contributing to the development and maintenance of the firm's innovation strategy, roadmap, and portfolio.
• Collaborate with and support the team and build and foster working relationships with business partners across the Firm.