Cooley LLP · 2 hours ago
Innovation Counsel - Litigation
Palo Alto
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$225K/yr - $285K/yr
4+ years expCooley LLP is seeking an Innovation Counsel to join their Practice Innovation team. The role involves advancing the firm's initiatives to maximize the value of innovation technologies and practices, collaborating with various teams to implement best practices and support legal technology adoption.
Document PreparationLegalProfessional Services
Responsibilities
Support and provide attorney-level input on targeted legal technology adoption initiatives impacting the firm’s practice groups
Design and prepare meaningful playbooks to help practice groups understand and implement best practices around the use of innovation technologies and processes
Organize presentations, status reports, and executive briefings
Collaborate closely with leadership in the innovation, firm operations, technology and practice groups in the request/initiative prioritization process, both in sharing insight gleaned from work with the practice groups and in evangelizing the existence and value of the prioritization process to the practice groups
Collaborative closely with other innovation teams to develop objectives, success metrics, and timelines related to legal technology adoption initiatives in the practice groups
Collaborate closely with practice management teams, legal project management and pricing teams to understand and analyze current practice group operational workflows, identify areas for improvement, and develop strategies to increase effectiveness and efficiency leveraging legal technologies
Work with other innovation teams to drive legal technology pilots, deployments, proofs of concept, experiments, and continuous improvements within the firm’s practice groups
Work closely with the change management team to help them develop effective communication campaigns for practice groups and develop meaningful change measurement processes
Develop and maintain practice group-specific resources, and work with Practice Engineering and other firm departments to automate and/or scale such efforts
Additional responsibilities based on evolving needs of the firm
Qualification
Required
After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
Ability to travel, as required
4+ years direct applicable experience (e.g., legal practice experience, hands-on experience with legal technology use and adoption efforts)
Active member in good standing or registered in-house counsel of the bar(s) in all jurisdictions from which you regularly work, as well as the jurisdiction in which your assigned office is located, if applicable
Juris Doctor(ate) or non-US equivalent
Experience in supporting and driving cross-functional projects involving legal technology teams, knowledge management teams, technology teams and practice group leadership
Understanding of large law firm financial and work allocation processes
Preferred
Knowledge and experience with distributed systems and organizations
Experience with core large law technologies such as iManage or NetDocs, Elite 3E, Intapp products, Litera products, Thomson Reuters and Lexis products
Experience with generative AI solutions used in legal practice
Strong effective presentation experience and skills to varied audiences
Experience with alternative legal service/managed service providers and models. (example: document review teams)
Experience with technology usage data and metrics
Ability to leverage data for insights and storytelling
Benefits
Medical
Health savings account (with applicable medical plan)
Dental
Vision
Health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts
Pre-tax commuter benefits
Life insurance
AD&D
Long-term care coverage
Backup care for children and/or adults
Other parental support benefits
Firm-paid life insurance
AD&D
LTD
Short term medical benefits
Four weeks of vacation
Two weeks of sick
10 paid holidays each year
Generous parental leave
Fertility benefits
Company
Cooley LLP
Clients partner with Cooley on transformative deals, complex IP and regulatory matters, and high-stakes litigation.
1001-5000 employees
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