Legal Technologist

Peaple Talent has partnered with an award winning Legal organisation who are recruiting a Legal Technologist on a permanent basis based in either their Bristol, Birmingham of Manchester office. You will be responsible for developing and evaluating the benefits of different types of legal technology and originate new and innovative ideas for the use of legal technology. We are looking for someone who has a creative, experimental approach to problem solving with an ability to manage critical issues quickly and effectively. You will be an early adopter and advocate of legal technology, developments and innovations Broad understanding of LegalTech and the digital technology market.

Role and responsibilities

• Design, configure or develop prototypes, along with proof of concepts and undertake final builds of new legal technology
• Understand the principle legal tech products and capabilities, how they each meet client requirements and how they can be used, particularly for multi-point solutions or with other point solutions.
• Provide advice and guidance to colleagues and throughout the firm on appropriate technology to help improve processes, identify and capture data and to improve the client experience.
• Assist in the integration, configuration and further customisation of new and existing solutions to include engaging with IT and InfoSec functions.
• Manage, update and implement the tech stack to include the contract review helptext and worksheets
• Assist in the management of the Legal Tech programme to include assisting with the introduction, design, implementation, support and embedding of new and existing legal technologies, the wider firm and with clients and undertaking continual improvement and evaluation of the stack.
• Promote the benefit of legal technology to the rest of the team and colleagues across the firm.
• Design, configure and implement no /low code legal technology prototypes and products.
• Assist in the management of day to day relationships with legal tech vendors to include liaising with vendors on demos, design and implementation of trials, pilots, proofs of concept and final roll out.
• Educate and raise awareness with internal and external clients on products and services and the value they deliver.
• Train users and provide presentations and demos of legal technology products and be a super user and trainer for the Legal Tech stack.
• Provide know-how on legal technology, the legal market and technology trends and solutions and undertake networking with clients, affiliates and members of the legal tech community
• Work with clients to scope, map and design appropriate solutions for clients to include the integration and implementation of legal technology (with support from the LPM team as required) and production of playbooks.
• Assisting partners and other colleagues in bids for and delivery of work where legal technology is required for successful legal service delivery

Technical Skills

• SaaS, digital security, data storage and transfer, data extraction tools, structured and unstructured data, eDiscovery, Contract Review and Contract Lifecycle Management, AI supported legal tech and tech, Robotic Process Automation, Document automation, eSignature etc to include with required knowledge of
• Excel
• Miro
• Kira
• LegalSifter
• Relativity
• DocuSign
• HighQ (or similar)

Technical experience

• Broad understanding of solution architecture and its application to the legal sector.
• Ideally some understanding and experience of a coding language.
• Some experience in design thinking or similar innovation techniques and methodology.
• Have an understanding of how to repurpose technology to solve pain points with a particular focus on what mainstream technology can do to include within the Microsoft Stack.
• Experience in document extraction, process automation and document review and knowledge of all the tech stack, including AI-powered document review, e-signature, collaboration platform and data extraction applications with the ability to provide support for and train others to use each element.
• Basic project management skills including an understanding of how to interpret the client\’s business needs and translate them into business/operational requirements.
• Experience of design, development and use of legal and commercial playbooks.

Stakeholder and engagement skills

• Undertake stakeholder and client management and engagement with a view to developing and cultivating relationships with stakeholders and internal and external clients.
• Be engaged with and working directly with clients to include assessing and identifying their needs, running workshops and sandbox events and setting up and running outsourcing projects for clients based on legal tech (with support from the LPM team as required).
• A client focused approach to the delivery of legal technology and project planning
• Excellent communication skills and an ability to engage and work collaboratively with stakeholders throughout the business at all levels and across fee earning teams and business services, with the ability to be flexible in approach as required
• Ability to support on delivering and embedding Legal and other Tech into a firm with particularly focus on change management methodologies