Advisor: Technology Innovation (Finance

Overview

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.

We are a collegial, collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realize their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

If you thrive in a collaborative environment that values exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, we invite you to consider joining our Information Technology department as an Advisor:
Technology Innovation (Finance). This role is available in any of Mayer Brown’s US offices.

The Advisor:
Technology Innovation extends the firm’s IT mission ensuring that technology investments are fully leveraged, innovations are adopted, and lawyers and clients experience measurable benefit. They focus on uncovering operational pain points, unmet client needs, and opportunities for innovation, as well as driving the adoption and enablement of legal technology solutions across the firm’s Finance practices. The Advisor ensures that all practice innovation efforts are grounded in real-world legal practice and aligned with the firm’s strategic goals.

This role sits adjacent to the firm’s Finance practices and requires genuine fluency in transactional and finance matters – including deal intake and scoping, due diligence, financing structures, credit agreements, ancillary documentation, signing and closing mechanics, post-closing obligations, and transaction management – so that every recommendation reflects how finance lawyers actually work a matter. The Advisor is not solely an evaluator of GenAI tools.

In collaboration with the firm’s Knowledge Counsel, Legal Process Management professionals, and finance partners and associates, they design, configure, and build the workflows, prompt libraries, and automations finance lawyers use inside platforms such as Harvey, converting off-the-shelf AI capability into practice-ready solutions.

Reporting to the Senior Manager:
Technology Innovation – US, they act as a connector between the firm’s practice groups and our technology delivery teams, between ideas and execution, and between emerging technologies and the Firm’s long-term strategy. They help identify opportunities, co-develop solutions for, and implement practice-specific transformation while streamlining and innovating the practice of law. The role will also be responsible for identifying, and collaborating to prototype, and implementing related technology.

While collaborating with other members of the Legal Technology & Innovation team, they will work closely with the other stakeholders, including and not limited to, those in Practice Technology, rest of IT, Knowledge Management, and Legal Risk Management departments to facilitate the smooth implementation of pilots and product launches of legal software tools and technology solutions. This role will be responsible for driving adoption of those solutions by leveraging usage data and coordinating various change management and adoption best practices.

Responsibilities may vary and grow as the team matures and the role progresses.

Essential Functions:

• Understand Needs & Opportunities:
  Partner with lawyers, clients, and business services to map and evaluate current processes across transactional and finance matters – including deal intake and scoping, due diligence, financing structures, credit agreements, ancillary documentation, signing and closing mechanics, post-closing obligations, and transaction management – with an eye to identifying where process improvement and technology can deliver…