Litigation Knowledge Management and Innovation Associate Attorney - Boston, New York

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Litigation leadership and KMI colleagues to curate, draft, and maintain model pleadings, motions, briefs, discovery requests and responses, deposition outlines, case checklists, practice notes, and litigation playbooks.
• Help capture and codify best practices and matter learnings from litigation and employment litigation attorneys to ensure resources reflect current practice and firm experience.
• Maintain and enhance internal litigation knowledge repositories and resource sites, including brief banks, pleadings libraries, deposition summaries, matter exemplars, and case strategy resources.
• Evaluate, vet, and test AI-enabled and other practice technologies relevant to litigation (e.g., e-discovery platforms, document review tools, case management software, legal research platforms, litigation analytics, workflow automation, and search tools).
• Partner with attorneys and vendors during pilots to gather feedback, identify strengths and limitations, and surface practical use cases.
• Design, document, and refine prompts, workflows, and playbooks for brief and motion drafting, AI-assisted document review, predictive analytics, case assessment, and related litigation activities across approved AI platforms.
• Stay current on developments in legal AI and litigation-focused technology and help translate those developments into practical guidance for attorneys.
• Support onboarding of attorneys and staff to approved litigation tools, including e-discovery platforms, document review tools, deposition and transcript management tools, trial presentation software, litigation analytics, and approved AI platforms.
• Design and deliver trainings, demos, quick-reference guides, and written playbooks tailored to litigation workflows, including e-discovery, document review, brief banks, and approved AI platforms.
• Partner with Professional Development to assess training needs, align curricula, and refresh materials as tools and workflows evolve.
• Present updates, demos, and best practices at litigation practice group meetings and other attorney forums.
• Monitor emerging legal developments relevant to litigation to proactively inform attorneys of significant changes, trends, and issues and to prepare related guidance and thought leadership.

Process Improvement and Efficiency

• Identify opportunities to streamline litigation workflows, including case management, docket and matter management, discovery workflows, and document review processes, through improved processes, templates, automation, and technology.
• Help standardize workflows and develop checklists or guidance that promote consistency, quality, and efficiency.
• Monitor adoption and usage, gather feedback, and iterate on resources and workflows based on attorney input.

General and Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Provide ongoing support to litigation attorneys (resource questions, tool walk-throughs, workflow guidance).
• Coordinate with IT, Research Services, E-Data Consulting, Professional Development, Business Development, and other KMI colleagues to align tools, training, and knowledge resources.
• Provide light project management support for pilots and initiatives (timelines, status updates, issue tracking).