Morton is seeking a Legal AI Solutions Lead for a client that is expanding its use of artificial intelligence across a large professional services environment.
This individual will play a key role in identifying, designing, testing, and implementing AI solutions that improve legal and business workflows. The position combines hands-on AI solution development with project management, stakeholder engagement, technology evaluation, and user adoption.
The ideal candidate brings experience working within a law firm or corporate legal environment, understands how attorneys and legal teams operate, and can translate business challenges into practical AI-enabled solutions.
Responsibilities
- Identify legal and business workflows that could benefit from AI and develop solutions to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- Design, build, test, and implement AI agents and other AI-enabled solutions for attorneys and business professionals.
- Partner directly with attorneys and practice leaders to understand business challenges, scope AI use cases, and develop practical solutions.
- Evaluate AI use cases and provide recommendations that support broader organizational AI initiatives.
- Lead discussions with stakeholders to understand complex AI-related challenges and translate requirements into actionable solutions.
- Collaborate with legal teams, IT, vendors, and other business groups to troubleshoot issues and improve AI solutions.
- Identify technical limitations, risks, and opportunities associated with proposed AI use cases.
- Develop strategies to increase AI adoption and address technical, workflow, and user experience barriers.
- Evaluate new AI capabilities and emerging technologies for compatibility with existing systems and business needs.
- Educate attorneys and business professionals on AI functionality, best practices, limitations, and advanced use cases.
- Develop concise training materials, FAQs, and other resources supporting AI adoption.
- Coordinate user onboarding, testing, and evaluation of new AI technologies and pilot programs.
- Analyze pilot results and prepare recommendations for leadership.
- Maintain documentation of AI use cases, technical requirements, results, and known limitations.
- Manage testing activities, deliverables, milestones, and deadlines across multiple AI initiatives.
- Identify trends and recurring issues across AI use cases and communicate findings to appropriate stakeholders.
- Research enterprise and emerging AI platforms to compare capabilities and potential applications.
- Provide input into broader AI technology decisions, including potential opportunities, risks, and technical considerations.
- Assist with gathering information related to client inquiries regarding the organization's use of AI.
- Prepare qualitative and quantitative summaries demonstrating the progress and impact of AI initiatives.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required; JD or other advanced degree preferred. Equivalent combinations of education and relevant legal experience may be considered.
- 4+ years of experience within a law firm, corporate legal department, or similar legal environment.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience working with artificial intelligence technologies.
- Strong understanding of legal workflows and experience working directly with attorneys.
- Demonstrated ability to identify business problems and translate them into practical technology or AI solutions.
- Experience evaluating, testing, implementing, or supporting AI tools and use cases.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple initiatives, priorities, and deadlines.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across legal, technology, leadership, and administrative teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to nontechnical audiences.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to quickly learn and evaluate emerging technologies.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
- Collaborative, adaptable, and comfortable receiving feedback and working across organizational boundaries.
- Interest in applying generative AI, AI assistants, copilots, and emerging AI technologies to complex professional workflows.
- Ability to travel or work outside normal business hours occasionally as business needs require.