Legal Workflow Engineer - Transactional

About the role

Latham & Watkins is a global law firm focusing on businesses and institutions driving the global economy. This role is based in New York, Boston, or Silicon Valley.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize AI-powered workflows supporting a legal practice group
• Translate practice requirements into AI workflow specifications, prompt libraries, and knowledge repositories
• Maintain prompt engineering standards, workflow templates, and quality assurance protocols for AI-powered tools
• Monitor and report on KPIs, quality metrics, and attorney satisfaction measures for AI-powered workflows
• Conduct research and development efforts to identify opportunities for AI enhancement in workflows
• Protect and maintain sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and proprietary information

Qualifications

• Show strong expertise in AI systems and prompt engineering
• Understand transactional legal practice, including M&A, finance, and capital markets workflows
• Have solid knowledge engineering capabilities, including developing prompt libraries, workflow templates, knowledge repositories, and quality assurance frameworks
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in legal technology, knowledge management, or legal practice
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Law, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field