Legal Technology Specialist; Corporate

Birketts is a full service, UK Top 50 law firm. With a heritage spanning 160 years, we have more than 700 lawyers and legal professionals and over 600 staff based in Bristol, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Ipswich, London, Norwich and Sevenoaks. We advise businesses, government and public sector organisations and individuals in the UK and internationally across four principal practice groups:
Real Estate, Corporate Services, Dispute Resolution and Private Client.

You will be a key part of two teams - both the Firm’s IT team and the Corporate Services Division (CSD) of lawyers. You will be the liaison and link between the two but essentially embedded in the CSD to help them with the digitisation of their varied work types. The CSD has seven different Practice Groups (PGs) within it namely core Corporate, Commercial and IP, Employment, Immigration, Charities, Banking and Tax.

The lawyers in each of these PGs are seeking to enhance their productivity and outputs with intelligent and smart use of AI and tech solutions.

We are seeking a dynamic and knowledgeable Legal Technology Specialist to join our IT team to liaise with the CSD (per the description above). The ideal candidate will have a strong legal background, having worked previously as a corporate or commercial or employment lawyer or PSL AND will be passionate about leveraging technology to enhance legal processes, legal research, legal content and improve efficiency.

This role involves working closely with legal teams to understand their needs, demonstrating the capabilities of various tools, and ensuring optimal use of technology within the Corporate Services Division. You will be responsible for:

• Technology Integration:
  Assist lawyers in utilising technology to streamline their workflows, including document management systems, document reviews, document drafting, case management software, artificial intelligence, and process automation tools.
• Process Improvement:
  Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement solutions to enhance productivity and efficiency within legal teams. Use LEAN principles such as defining value, mapping the value stream and creating flow. Striving for excellence by regularly reviewing and refining workflows to achieve the highest possible quality and efficiency.
• Training and Support:
  Working with the Learning and Development team to provide lawyers with training, guidance, and support on advanced features of legal technology tools, ensuring they are fully equipped to maximise their use.
• Evangelism:
  Inspire legal teams to further embrace new ways of working to improve client outcomes. Promote the use of legal technology within legal teams, running demos and workshops to showcase the benefits of legal tech.
• Face-to-Face Interaction:
  Spend the majority of time working directly with lawyers to understand their challenges and provide tailored process and technological solutions.
• Project and Change Management:
  Manage process and technology-related change within legal teams, working in an agile way, to ensure timely delivery of value to legal teams. Lead change management initiatives within legal teams to ensure the smooth adoption of new technologies and processes.
• Cross-Functional Work:
  Collaborate with the Learning and Development and Technology teams to ensure comprehensive support and training for lawyers while staying current on technology advances and available tools, ensuring alignment with the firm's overall data and technology strategy.
• Reporting and Prioritisation:
  Providing regular updates to the Head of Legal Process Engineering, IT Director, Head of Corporate Services Division and Partners (where appropriate), collaborating with the division’s Technology Steering Group to prioritise work based on the needs of the respective legal teams.
• Liaising with the firm’s pricing experts on leveraging the value proposition from improved legal workflow efficiencies.

• Legal Background:
  Experience as a lawyer (corporate, commercial or employment preferred) with a strong understanding of legal processes, research and workflows, in particular a working knowledge of the processes involved in corporate and commercial transactions and corporate advisory work.
• Technical Proficiency:
  Proficient in understanding and using AI and legal technology tools and software, able to demonstrate and train others on their use. The firm already uses some tools for document automation, title analysis, reporting, and electronic signing and is looking to deploy existing and additional tools that can help improve both the firm’s efficiency and client experience.
• Analytical
  
  Skills:
  
  Strong analytical skills to identify process inefficiencies and propose practical solutions, including proficiency in data analysis and visualisation tools.
• Communication
  
  Skills:
  
  Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively with lawyers, partners and technology teams, including effective…