Latham & Watkins is a global law firm providing legal services across transactional, litigation, and regulatory matters. The firm works with clients in diverse industries, including finance and other business sectors, on complex legal and commercial issues. Its broader professional profile also includes pro bono representation, community service, and environmental sustainability initiatives.
Innovation Attorney, Client Team Enablement
Help Latham & Watkins’ legal clients adopt AI and legal technology, guiding engagements from discovery through implementation and ongoing support.
Description
- Shape and deliver client AI engagements, including workflow design, pilots, workshops, and collaborative innovation initiatives
- Partner with lawyers, client teams, and clients to find ways AI and legal technology can improve legal workflows and service delivery
- Explain how AI can be used in legal work, including its capabilities, limits, appropriate use, and need for human oversight
- Guide client opportunities from initial discovery through solution design, testing, implementation, and ongoing support
- Match client needs with the firm’s approved AI, legal technology, automation, and related tools
- Ensure client AI work meets standards for quality, documentation, confidentiality, information security, and compliance
- Spot recurring client needs, effective approaches, and capability gaps, then share findings with the Manager and wider team
- Work with Business Development to develop technology content for panels, pitches, RFPs, and client discussions
Requirements
- Bring practical expertise in AI, generative AI, and legal technology, including their use in legal service delivery
- Understand legal workflows, law firm operations, and the needs of sophisticated legal clients
- Be able to support complex client engagements from discovery through delivery
- Demonstrate advanced analytical and problem-solving ability
- Hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Have at least five years of relevant experience
- Show established interest in and knowledge of legal technology and AI tools, including generative AI
- J.D. or equivalent preferred
Benefits
- Bonuses recognizing individual and firm performance
- Health insurance
- Group income protection
- Life assurance
- Pension plan
- Wellness programs
- Employee discounts
- Global Affinity Groups and supportive professional networks