Legal Technologist Lawyer

As a Legal Technologist you will work as part of the Legal Technology Team to drive the adoption of our Legal Technology and productivity tools, spearheading the use of best practice tools and Gen AI to support our colleagues and better serve our clients. Specifically, working with Legal service teams to develop playbooks, workflow solutions, and automation opportunities, turning legal processes into scalable, data-driven workflows and products.

With the adoption of Gen AI & other Future State Legal Technology solutions, Legal Technologists are critical to work directly with service teams.

• Identify, implement & manage legal technology tools (e.g., document management, e-discovery, matter management, contract lifecycle systems) to improve efficiency, accuracy, and client service.
• Partner Legal service teams, Functions Technology and central technology/CIO teams, and business stakeholders to define requirements, scope solutions, and ensure tools meet end user needs and identify requirements needed to increase adoption and engagement of Legal Tech tools.
• Design and deliver training sessions and materials to support lawyers across the business on how to use Legal Tech products effectively and efficiently.
• Build and maintain a Legal Technology horizon/market scanning capability through Tech Champions and external partners to ensure that our Legal Tech Strategy remains relevant and able to leverage emerging opportunities.
• Lead on GenAI delivery and continuous Improvement (developing use‑cases, prompts, training, agent development) & Workflow automation (through GenAI).
• Work with Legal Data team to design & manage systems that improve access to legal data, precedents, and knowledge repositories.
• Collate and analyze value metrics to articulate and quantify the value obtained through the adoption of the tools.
• Partner with process transformation colleagues to optimise legal workflows through leveraging technology and automation.
• Support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by ensuring the business is ready to receive the agreed change.
• Identify and analyse business impact and opportunities that require change within the organisation.
• Develop business readiness strategies that will help to ensure the successful implementation of change initiatives.
• Communicate with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about change initiatives and that their needs and expectations are being met.
• Collaborate with Client Readiness, Operational Readiness & Tech Delivery to ensure business, sales, operations, client servicing and functional partners are prepared for a smooth transition of technology delivery into BAU.
• Manage resistance to change, ensuring that stakeholders are engaged and that their concerns are addressed.
• Review business readiness plans and status reports in conjunction with change delivery managers to ensure business readiness activities completed on time including newly identified risks, issues and dependencies.
• Collaborate with project teams to ensure that change initiatives are aligned with project objectives and that change management activities are integrated into project plans.
• Provide guidance and support to business stakeholders, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to implement change initiatives successfully.
• Toward Vice President expectations: contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change; plan resources, budgets, and policies; deliver continuous improvements.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan departmental future needs, counsel employees, lead specialists and manage budgets.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours (Listen, Energise, Align, Develop).
• For individual contributors, be a subject‑matter expert and guide technical direction.
• Advising key stakeholders, managing risks, and strengthening controls.
• Collaborate with other areas of work to align support functions with business activity.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought and innovative problem‑solving.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships…