Legal Engineering Attorney

About the role

Latham & Watkins is one of the world’s leading global law firms. This role is located in either our New York, Boston, Chicago, Washington, D.C., or Los Angeles offices.

Responsibilities

• Re-engineering existing manual workflows for AI-first execution
• Determining the appropriate allocation of work, placement of review gates, and handling of exceptions
• Translating practice group playbooks, checklists, negotiation positions, and house style into structured artifacts
• Codifying the tacit knowledge of senior practitioners into machine-readable form
• Authoring schema specifications and JSON Schemas for deal types, clause libraries, document attributes, and matter metadata
• Curating exemplar matters, precedents, and work product into reference packs
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information

Qualifications

• Possess demonstrated fluency authoring, evaluating, and iterating on prompts for large language models in production legal workflows
• Exhibit practical experience designing evaluation rubrics and conducting structured quality measurement of AI outputs
• Have a J.D. from an accredited law school
• Have a bachelor’s degree, in law, computer science, information systems, or a related field
• A minimum of three (3) years of substantive legal practice experience at a law firm or in-house legal department
• A minimum of two (2) years of full-time experience as a Legal Engineer, Legal Knowledge Engineer, Legal Workflow Engineer, Innovation Attorney, or comparable role