Practice Innovation Advisor

About the role

The Practice Innovation Advisor at Kirkland & Ellis plays a crucial role in supporting the firm's strategic goals of enhancing client service, efficiency, and profitability. This position focuses on assessing current workflows, identifying pain points, and designing and running technology pilots to improve attorney workflows and client outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with legal teams to assess current workflows, identify pain points, and assess the feasibility, impact, and ROI of potential innovations.
• Design and run technology pilots from start to finish, including defining objectives, scope, timeline, budget, metrics, and success criteria, and managing stakeholders, risks, and issues.
• Engage with practice group leadership and Knowledge Management attorneys to socialize new technology and facilitate adoption and change management.
• Map existing legal processes and workflows to identify opportunities for optimization, automation, and AI enhancements.
• Complete deep dives on practice group use case requests, developing and stress testing workflows and advancing custom-built solutions.
• Work with, identify, develop, and maintain key external vendor relationships.
• Foster impactful engagements with Pre-Sales, Customer Success, and Product touchpoints.
• Understand and address potential risks of emerging technology, working closely with Innovation Enablement and Responsible AI personnel to ethically and effectively deploy new legal technology.
• Promote a culture of innovation and continuous learning within the firm, by sharing insights, best practices, and lessons learned.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the firm's innovation strategy, roadmap, and portfolio.
• Collaborate with and support the team and build and foster working relationships with business partners across the Firm.

Requirements

• JD or LLM, required.
• 5+ years prior experience at a law firm or customer-facing experience at a legal technology vendor, required.
• Hands-on experience leading enterprise software implementation from evaluation through deployment, including both strategic planning and day-to-day execution of deliverables.
• Demonstrated familiarity with leading legal tech platforms, GenAI platforms, automation, contract lifecycle management (CLM), or business intelligence tools.
• Experience with legal practice process improvement, automation, and no-code or low-code workflow platforms, preferred.
• Experience with formal change management processes and procedures, preferred.

Qualifications

• Ability to learn and work independently but actively listen to and understand and follow directives to get desired results.
• Ability to work overtime and perform duties outside of scheduled work hours, as needed, to meet the business needs of the Firm.
• Lead special projects as assigned, as activities designated to the Practice Innovation team will continue to evolve and shift as needed based on the needs of Firm leadership.

Other Functions

• Staying informed of new technology, market trends, and best practices in the legal industry and beyond, and sharing insights and recommendations with the Practice Innovation team and the firm.

What You’ll Bring

• Education, Work Experience, Skills

Compensation

The base salary range below represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position in each of the below locations. This range may differ based on your geographic location and cost of living considerations.

• New York City: $153,000 - $211,000
• Chicago: $153,000 - $191,000
• Washington D.C.: $153,000 - $211,000
• Boston: $153,000 - $211,000
• Bay Area: $153,000 - $220,000
• Los Angeles: $153,000 - $211,000

How to Apply

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