Senior Legal Technologist

Senior Legal Technologist

Team: Knowledge and AI Enablement within the Technology Department

Reports to: Global Director of Knowledge [and AI Enablement]

At BCLP, we’ve built our firm on the foundations of thinking differently. Curious, inquisitive and unbound by tradition, we’re building change within our sector and beyond.

It starts with our people, which is why we need a Senior Legal Technologist to join our team. This pivotal role exists at the intersection of knowledge management, legal AI enablement and practice technology.

In summary, you will be responsible for evaluating, developing and ensuring adoption of knowledge-backed systems/processes and appropriate legal practice technology, with a strong focus on driving legal AI transformation among lawyers.

The wide remit of this position would suit an energetic and proactive individual with an entrepreneurial spirit and strong team‑working skills.

Key responsibilities

• Knowledge-backed systems and processes: You will help shape and execute a forward‑looking knowledge strategy that leverages AI and emerging technologies to enhance legal practice and client service.
  • Subject‑Matter Expert (SME) for all knowledge‑backed systems, tools and processes in our firm.
  • Help curate and leverage legal knowledge and data; identify ways to augment and automate knowledge processes; deliver training to lawyers; and be a key liaison with our firm’s cohort of Knowledge Lawyers.
  • Assist in drafting responses to pitches/RFPs on knowledge/technology capabilities and help formulate requirements for bespoke client offerings.
• Legal AI Enablement: You will play a prominent role in our firm’s newly‑formed taskforce for our “Legal Evolution in AI Program” (LEAP). As part of the taskforce, you will be directly involved (either as product owner, project manager, or SME advisor) in large‑scale legal AI product pilots and implementations.
  • Preparing business cases, measuring delivery against KPIs, and evidencing return on investment (ROI).
  • Designing test methodology and comparison frameworks to help inform investment decisions.
  • Providing demos and training to lawyers and clients.
  • Managing complex, multi‑stakeholder projects, scope, timeline, resourcing, risk mitigation, testing, and reporting.
• Change Management: Encourage adoption of all appropriate practice technology and processes in line with agreed strategic direction and initiatives. Provide ideas for troubleshooting obstacles to user engagement.
• Data Reporting & Analytics: Analyse and synthesize usage data across a number of Knowledge/AI platforms using PowerBI dashboards.
• Risk/Regulatory/Compliance support: Work with our firm’s Office of General Counsel on issues relating to knowledge, legal technology and AI enablement.
• Line Management: Manage three Knowledge paralegals.

Key relationships

• Wider Technology department, including (but not limited to) Practice Technology; Research, Information & Intelligence (RII); Data, Reporting & Analytics.
• Lawyers in all practice groups, globally.
• Knowledge Lawyers in all practice groups.
• Office of General Counsel (OGC).
• BD/Marketing globally.

Essential Experience and knowledge

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working as a knowledge professional, innovation manager, legal technologist or a similar role in the legal sector.
• A law degree, masters, legal apprenticeship, or similar qualification.

Skills and competencies Required

Excellent communicator, able to work with people of varying levels of seniority and technical experience and adept at translating complex information into clear, concise, and engaging content.

Experienced at delivering training and demonstrations on legal technology, with the ability to provide practice‑specific examples.

• Has sufficient knowledge of legal principles to identify appropriate legal use cases, tailor lawyer interactions to different target audiences, and classify knowledge assets appropriately by work type, document type, and/or legal concept.
• Highly organised with good project management skills.
• Experience of data reporting, using data visualisation tools such as PowerBI.
• Strong analytical mindset—able to interpret usage data, feedback, and AI metrics to improve content and workflows.
• Experience managing knowledge bases or structured content repositories and/or an understanding of taxonomy, metadata, and content governance frameworks.
• Familiarity with AI tools, LLM‑based systems, or AI knowledge ingestion processes, particularly within a legal context.

Diversity, inclusion and working differently

At Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner we understand the value of a diverse workforce and believe people perform at their best when they can truly be themselves at work. We aim to create an inclusive environment where all employees are valued, motivated, and able to be themselves. In order to serve our diverse client base, we are committed to recruiting, retaining, rewarding and developing people with regard to their abilities and contributions and without reference to their background, gender, gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, socio‑economic status, political belief, disability or any other protected characteristic.

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner is a firm with an increasingly flexible workforce and supports flexible working arrangements, tailored to the individual, wherever possible.

Please feel free to speak to the Recruitment Team about the flexibility we are offering for this role.

Confidentiality

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner will ensure all hardcopy and electronic materials containing confidential information are securely stored and accessible only to those authorised to view such content.

Disclosure

As a regulated firm of solicitors, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner is required to undertake appropriate vetting of staff. In addition to completion, by applicants who accept a job offer, of a regulatory questionnaire, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner uses a specialist provider to undertake professional verification and background checks (including through electronic data sources, and directly with employers and professional bodies/regulators) on our behalf. We will also undertake certain verifications ourselves.

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner adopts a risk‑based approach to its vetting procedures, which are only undertaken with consent, and in accordance with IT, legal and regulatory obligations. For further details, please see our recruitment website www.bclplaw.com

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Legal and Information Technology

Industries: Law Practice and Legal Services