Service Innovation Lawyer - Projects & Infrastructure

Role profile

Service Innovation Lawyer – Projects & Infrastructure

Sharper in purpose. Stronger in connection. Bolder in ambition.

Osborne Clarke is an international, full-service law firm focused on organisations in high growth sectors, navigating high regulatory intensity, rapid innovation and disruption, and multi-jurisdictional complexity. Our foundation is a culture of character, camaraderie and collaboration that helps our colleagues thrive and our clients succeed. We are now evolving our people centred culture to become even more ambitious. This brings greater opportunity to do strategic, complex work – often collaborating across borders – with talented, generous colleagues, and to leverage data and technology to shape a firm that is growing with purpose and confidence.

Innovation and technology are central to our strategic ambitions. We have an exciting new opportunity for a Service Innovation Lawyer specialising in Projects & Infrastructure law to work within our Projects & Infrastructure practice group, helping to shape and deliver AI enabled legal services for our clients.

This role is available on both a permanent and fixed-term basis, and can be based from any of our UK offices. We operate a hybrid working model so you can benefit from time both at home and in the office. The successful candidate will receive structured training and ongoing development in AI, legal technology and client service innovation. This role will suit lawyers already in a similar role, as well as those looking to pivot into this space.

Previous experience in a legal technology and AI role is not required – though we are looking for a strong interest in this space.

As a Service Innovation Lawyer, you will be embedded in our Projects & Infrastructure Practice Group, working day-to-day alongside Partners and fee earning teams. You will also be part of, and work closely with, our Osborne Clarke Solutions ("OCS") team, a multidisciplinary group of ex-lawyers and technologists based in the UK and Europe, who provide the strategic framework, tools and methodology that underpin the firm's service innovation programme.

By talking to clients, using AI and collaborative technology to develop legal project management tools, we believe that we can continue to transform our services and further strengthen Osborne Clarke's position in the market.

The firm's service innovation programme has already delivered solutions to a number of clients across several jurisdictions, with hundreds of matters now being instructed, run and managed online. There are many more opportunities to design and implement new delivery and technology tools, and to help clients with their own process improvements. You will also help ensure our lawyers have the resources, products and know-how needed to provide the best possible service.

Embedded day-to-day within Projects & Infrastructure, you will work closely with Partners, fee earning teams, our in-house Knowledge team and clients, with the support and strategic direction of OCS. You will play a pivotal role in turning the firm’s AI strategy into practice: embedding AI enabled ways of working in live matters and helping to design and deliver new AI enabled products and services.

As demand for these solutions grows, we are investing in additional legally experienced resource to help build and manage our portfolio of AI enabled products, services and solutions across OC jurisdictions. You will be supported with tailored training, mentoring and exposure to a broad range of projects to develop your skills in this area.

You will:

• Work directly alongside Projects & Infrastructure fee earning lawyers on live client matters to design, test and refine AI enabled ways of…