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Lead – AI & Law-Tech (Manager / Sr.Manager)

Lead – AI & Law-Tech (Manager / Sr.Manager)

GGVkakinada, India
20 hours ago
Job description

Experience Required : 8-10 years in legal technology

Preferred Candidate : General Corporate Lawyer with understanding of all practice areas workflows, keen interest in technology and AI. Working in Legal Tech companies or legal tech roles in top law-firms

Position Summary

The Lead – AI & Law-Tech will drive the firm’s vision to be the most digitally advanced legal firm , overseeing enterprise-wide strategy, implementation, governance, and transformation across all legal technology tools, platforms, and AI-driven solutions. This includes leading the firm’s Harvey AI adoption, Litera, LiquidText, KM modernization, and other law-tech solutions, ensuring these tools deliver measurable business impact, competitive advantage, and regulatory alignment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic inputs to define firm-wide AI & Law-Tech strategy aligned with the firm’s growth, client value, and innovation goals.
  • Act as the internal Product Owner for Harvey AI , ensuring its relevance, adoption, prompt libraries, and use-case expansion across practices.
  • Lead the roadmap for the KM Portal, LiquidText, Litera, and other legal tech initiatives with a strong focus on practice enablement.
  • Spearhead AI implementation use cases across all practice areas.
  • Evaluate new products, GenAI platforms, pilot their effectiveness, and integrate with iManage, CRM, DMS, and KM systems.
  • Institutionalize AI policy, prompt hygiene, ethical AI use, and risk mitigation mechanisms in compliance with ISO 42001, ISO 27001, and DPDP norms.
  • Oversee AI governance frameworks including :
  • Role-based access control
  • Logging & monitoring
  • AI usage audits
  • Risk registers and mitigation
  • Response to client-side compliance questionnaires
  • Define ownership roles across Law-Tech tools, ensure licensing health, and supervise vendor relationships with platforms like Harvey, Litera, Westlaw, etc.
  • Work closely with all practice groups to identify pain points in their day-to-day operations, map business process workflows, and explore opportunities to transform their work through technology and AI.
  • Collaborate with practice technology champions, the IT team, KM team, and other cross-functional teams to drive these initiatives.
  • 80%+ adoption of Law-Tech tools across the firm
  • Seamless integration of all law-tech platforms with firm systems
  • Active AI governance framework in line with ISO / DPDP
  • Structured Prompt Library and use-case bank per practice
  • 100% visibility into license usage, cost, and renewal status
  • KM Portal enriched with tagged, structured, and AI-searchable content
  • Regular firm-wide awareness and innovation showcase events

Adoption & Change Management

  • Create adoption and change management framework, roadmap and drive it’s execution
  • Champion user adoption across practice groups by building :
  • Training programs for each law-tech tools & AI certification
  • Conduct internal training sessions for each tool.
  • Identify practice-specific success stories and promote them through interviews and communications across all channels.
  • Champions network & office-hour sessions
  • Practice-wise playbooks for all tools, prompt guides, and internal webinars
  • Feedback loops and continuous refinement models
  • Drive collaboration with Learning & Development (L&D), Risk, Practice Leaders, and BD teams for maximum platform value realization.
  • Establish board-level KPIs to measure :
  • AI adoption by practice and user segment
  • Time savings and productivity improvements
  • Reduction in drafting / research time
  • Return on investment on tools
  • Risk reduction and audit performance
  • Publish a Monthly innovation and AI dashboard for the ExCo / Board.

    • Tools & Platforms Under Scope

  • AI : Harvey AI, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, GenAI Prompt Libraries
  • Law-Tech : Litera Suite, LiquidText, Contract Express, Manupatra, SCC, Westlaw, KM Portal, Time Sheet, and any new law-tech embraced in the firm.
  • Integration Points : iManage, Intranet, Timesheet, CRM, HRMS
  • Analytics : Power BI, usage dashboards, audit reports
  • Governance Tools : ISO 27001 / 42001 control sets, VAPT findings, AI audit logs

    • Preferred Certifications

  • LegalTech Certifications (Litera, Harvey AI, iManage KM)
  • AI / GenAI certifications
  • Understanding of ISO 27001 / ISO 42001
  • Understanding of PMP (preferred for structured governance)

    • Education

  • LLB / LLM from top tier university

    • Leadership Competencies

  • Strong executive presence, able to engage at partner and board level
  • Deep understanding of the legal landscape and tech intersection
  • Design Thinking
  • Forward-thinking and innovation driven, yet compliance focused
  • Ability to balance adoption with risk governance
  • Collaborative and inclusive, building cross-functional engagement across IT, Legal, Risk, and HR
  • Hands-on experience with technologies such as Citrix, iManage, Harvey AI / GenAI, Litera Proofread, Litera Compare, Litera Content Companion, KM Portal, LiquidText, TimeSheet, LexisNexis, and SCC Online.
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