Practice Innovation Advisor

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is a full-service law firm that focuses on providing high-value legal services. The Practice Innovation Advisor will support the implementation of emerging technologies, collaborate with various teams to enhance client solutions, and conduct research to identify opportunities for improving legal practices.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with lawyers, clients, firm leadership, and operational teams, including Practice Operations, Talent, Information Technology, Marketing and Business Development, and Accounting and Finance, to grow the firm’s culture of innovation and improve the practice of law
• Work with attorney teams, clients, and practice groups to deliver innovative client solutions and legal technologies that support the efficient management of legal matters
• Maintain a current awareness of emerging technology tools (both generally and among law firms and legal departments) to ensure that the firm stays ahead of the curve
• Partner with practice groups to develop goals and strategy around service delivery
• Research and evaluate tools and procedures that promote productivity and service quality
• Partner with our data science team, Katten DataLAB, to find solutions to client challenges and needs
• Build and maintain relationships with existing and potential vendors to coordinate updates of existing platforms and to identify/vet potential new platforms
• Implement new processes, including working to integrate software in our solutions for attorneys and practice groups
• Be an internal and external advocate for the innovation team and new solutions that benefit the firm and our clients
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders within the firm’s practice departments to socialize the benefits of emerging technology tools, drive projects through to completion, and identify/vet potential new use cases
• Assist in AI education efforts to promote firm‑wide AI literacy and informed adoption of AI tools
• Be familiar with new products and other developments in legal innovation and software
• Assist in our AI, Gen AI, and Agentic AI efforts
• Manage projects under direction of the Chief Innovation Officer
• Assist in design thinking exercises with internal teams and client facing teams

Skills

• A Juris Doctor degree (J.D.) is required
• One or more years of experience working within a large law firm is highly preferred
• One or more years of work experience and/or formal training in emerging legal technologies, process improvement, design thinking, and/or data science
• Familiarity with some or all of the following: Legal-focused generative AI tools (such as Harvey, CoCounsel, Legora), Document automation tools (such as Avvoka), Document analysis tools (such as Draftwise), and Collaboration platforms (such as SharePoint, HighQ, etc.); and/or Business Intelligence/ETL platforms
• Displays intelligence, creativity, resilience, and persistence in solving varied, complex, and non-routine problems
• Comfortable working both independently and in diverse teams
• Displays excellent time management and project management skills to meet objectives and deadlines
• Able to effectively distill complex information, synthesize, simplify, and present to Firm Management, attorneys, and business professionals
• Possess excellent reading, writing, grammar, spelling, punctuation, proofreading, and formatting skills in order to interpret and analyze source data, prepare correspondence and documentation, and proofread material for grammatical, typographical and spelling errors
• Able to perform mathematical calculations and apply mathematical concepts when computing, reconciling balances, verifying numerical data, and preparing various reports

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision
• 401k with employer contribution
• Parental leave
• Transportation fringe benefit program
• Back-up care option
• Generous paid time off policy
• Long-term and short-term disability policies

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