Santa Monica, CA30+ days ago
Specific Duties and 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 • Collaborate 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: Skills and Experience: 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.