Practice Innovation Attorney; Intellectual Property

Husch Blackwell LLP is a full-service litigation and business law firm with multiple locations across the United States, serving clients with domestic and international operations.

At Husch Blackwell we believe that diverse, equitable and inclusive teams lead to better outcomes. Husch Blackwell is committed to retaining, recruiting, developing, and promoting talented lawyers and business professionals with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We foster an engaged, diverse, and inclusive team culture of accountability and purpose that makes our Firm and our communities better.

Our firm is committed to attracting and retaining professionals who value each other and the service we provide by embracing Teamwork, Collaboration, Client Service, and Innovation. If you are a motivated professional looking for a long-term fit where you can grow in a role, and will be valued and empowered, then we invite you to apply to our Practice Innovation Attorney position.

This position will be remote.

The Practice Innovation Attorney serves as the innovation partner for the Intellectual Property (IP) Practice Specialty Center (PSC), helping improve legal service delivery through practice innovation, knowledge management, workflow optimization, and technology adoption. Working closely with practice leaders, attorneys, and business teams, the Practice Innovation Attorney identifies and implements innovative approaches that improve legal service delivery, increase scalability, and strengthen client outcomes while ensuring work product remains guided by attorney judgment.

This role analyzes legal workflows, develops reusable legal knowledge assets, and designs and implements AI-enabled workflows and solutions, and helps attorneys adopt innovative ways of working. The Practice Innovation Attorney serves as a bridge between legal practitioners, Practice Innovation, technology teams, and other business functions to translate practice needs into practical, sustainable solutions that improve attorney effectiveness and client value. Essential job functions include:

Practice Partnership

• Serve as the primary Practice Innovation liaison for the IP PSC, providing strategic advice on innovation and knowledge management matters.
• Build trusted relationships with attorneys and practice leaders to identify opportunities to improve legal service delivery, knowledge sharing, productivity, and client value.
• Translate practice and client needs into actionable knowledge, innovation, workflow, and technology initiatives.
• Facilitate collaboration between attorneys and business teams to develop and implement practical solutions.
• Develop, prototype, test, refine, maintain, and govern practice-specific knowledge assets, including playbooks, knowledge repositories, precedents, databases, workflows, templates, prompts, skills, and other solutions that can be reused across matters and practice groups.
• Capture attorney experience, institutional knowledge, and best practices, translating them into scalable assets that improve consistency, quality, and client value across the firm.
• Analyze legal workflows and deliverables to identify opportunities for automation, AI enablement, workflow improvement, and client-facing solutions, and translate successful practices into scalable workflows, knowledge assets, and reusable firm resources.
• Evaluate and pilot legal technology and AI tools, including performing comparative analyses and providing recommendations about purchase, expansion, and retirement of solutions.
• Coordinate with technology and business teams to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, sustainable, and aligned with firm governance requirements.

Attorney Enablement & Adoption

• Develop and deliver training, workshops, demonstrations, and support materials related to knowledge resources, technology, and innovation initiatives, in coordination with the Learning team.
• Advise attorneys and business professionals regarding effective use of firm tools, knowledge assets, and workflows.
• Promote adoption through practical use cases, demonstrations, pilot programs, and ongoing engagement with practice groups.
• Gather user feedback and adoption insights to refine solutions and maximize business impact.
• Monitor adoption, usage, feedback, and implementation barriers and adjust training, communications, and solution design accordingly.

Client Value & Impact

• Lead innovation, knowledge management, and workflow improvement projects for the IP PSC from…