Innovation Attorney, TCG

Orrick
currently has an excellent opportunity for a
Technology Companies Group (TCG) Innovation Attorney
.This position could be based in
any of our U.S. offices
and consideration given for
100% remote
US locations.

The TCG Innovation Attorney will support the Firm’s innovation efforts to improve the delivery of legal services through the trifecta of people, process, and technology, specifically focusing on our Technology Companies Group practice.

This position is part of our Innovation team and collaborates across offices, practice groups, and departments to execute on projects and initiatives. The role reports to the Managing Director of Practice Innovation and works in close collaboration with all members and leadership of the TCG practice group.

The TCG Innovation Attorney will lead and support efforts to optimize client service delivery and increase efficiencies across the TCG practice group.

Responsibilities include:

• Support, coordinate, and lead projects to streamline and improve the delivery of legal services, including:
  • Understanding the firm’s available resources and technology, and developing best practices and other programs to drive teams and tasks to the “right” resources (whether people, process, or technology)
  • Leading projects to digitalize the practice, including automation
  • Supporting the firm’s data strategy, including tracking matter and deal data, and monitoring usage of practice content and resources
  • Serving as a one-on-one resource for practice resource questions and issues
• Support, coordinate, and lead projects to integrate technology, including generative AI, into the practice of law, including:
  • Vetting, piloting, and supporting the onboarding of technology to support the legal practice
  • Serving as product manager for select technology, including responsibility for rollout, promotion and adoption, communications, gathering feedback, collaboration with vendor, and measuring ROI
  • Driving the promotion, adoption, and utilization of legal technology, including generative AI, within the practice group
  • Identifying, developing, promoting and training on generative AI use cases for the practice
  • Serving as a one-on-one resource for lawyers on incorporating generative AI and other legal technology into their practice, including supporting individual training, questions, identifying workflows ripe for technology, troubleshooting, and ideation
• Coordinate and support the design, development, and creation of AI-powered workflow agents and solutions to streamline and enhance the practice, including:
  • Identifying and scoping multi-step TCG workflows suitable for agentic automation
  • Partnering with TCG lawyers and other members of the Innovation team to design, configure, test, and iterate on workflow agents, including prompt and process design, knowledge source integration, and quality controls
  • Establishing guardrails, review protocols, and success metrics to ensure accuracy, confidentiality, and responsible use
  • Supporting rollout, training, adoption, and ongoing maintenance and enhancement of deployed agents
• Support and advance the TCG deal data dashboard as a strategic tool for the practice, including:
  • Contributing to the dashboard’s ongoing enhancement for internal and external audiences
  • Overseeing data capture, quality, and maintenance processes to ensure the dashboard remains accurate, complete, and current
  • Promoting use of the dashboard by TCG lawyers and leadership to inform market positioning, strategy, and client advice
  • Translating deal data into insights, benchmarks, and reports for internal stakeholders and clients
• Improve the use of practice content to streamline the delivery of legal services, including:
  • Creating and automating knowledge and precedent libraries
  • Identifying…