Legal Technology Specialist

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 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.

We are defined by our Next Level Law proposition. We work with our clients as a proactive partner, horizon scanning and thinking ahead to the changes, challenges or opportunities that they may face.

Next Level Law is also applied to our people. Our collegiate culture means everyone is encouraged to achieve their next level in everything they do. Roll On Friday  recently ranked us as the 5th best law firm to work at in 2024.

With our ambition to succeed, comes a strong desire to make a positive contribution to the communities we serve, and we are committed to delivering the objectives set out in our ESG strategy. Diversity plays an integral part in all that we do, with female partners comprising 40% of our partnership.

We areseekinga dynamic and knowledgeable Legal Technology Specialist to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong legal background,having worked asa Private Client lawyer,and will be passionate aboutleveragingtechnology to enhance legal processes and improve efficiency.

This role involves working closely withlegal teamsto understand their needs,demonstrating the capabilities of various tools, and ensuringoptimaluse of technology within the Division. Your day to day responsibilities will include:

• Technology Integration: Assist lawyers in utilising technology to streamline their workflows, including document management systems, 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 Division and Partners (where appropriate), collaborating with the divisions Technology Steering Group to prioritise work based on the needs of the respective legal teams.

• Experience as a lawyer with a strong understanding of legal processes and workflows, in particular a working knowledge of the processes involved in a variety of dispute resolution transactional work.
• Proficient in using legal technology tools and software, able to demonstrate and train others on their use. The firm already uses tools for document automation, title analysis, reporting, and electronic signing and is looking to deploy additional tools that can help improve both the firms efficiency and client experience.
• Strong analytical skills to identify process inefficiencies and propose practical solutions, including proficiency in data analysis and visualisation tools.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively with lawyers, partners and technology teams, including effective communication with clients, developers, and organisation leaders.
• Ability to adapt to new technologies and stay updated on industry trends.
• Ability to assess options, make informed decisions, and find solutions to complex problems.

At Birketts, our culture is driven by ambition and a commitment to positively impact all the communities we serve. We are dedicated to the success,…