Latham & Watkins

Legal Workflow Engineer – Litigation

Latham & Watkins

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York City • California • Massachusetts • United States

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Salary

💰 $155,000 - $190,000 per year

About the role

  • Designing, developing, and optimizing AI-powered workflows that support a legal practice group
  • Developing and maintaining prompt engineering standards, workflow templates, and quality assurance protocols for AI-powered tools, ensuring consistent, high-quality outputs
  • Executing on the strategic vision for AI-enabled workflows, contributing to multi-year roadmaps for AI optimization initiatives aligned with firm strategy, practice group priorities, and attorney needs
  • Translating practice requirements into AI workflow specifications, prompt libraries, and knowledge repositories, ensuring AI outputs align with attorney expectations and legal best practices
  • Providing input on AI workflow priorities and optimization efforts, balancing practice group needs, technical feasibility, quality standards, and long-term strategic value
  • Monitoring and reporting on KPIs, quality metrics, and attorney satisfaction measures for AI-powered workflows, using data-driven insights to guide optimization and iteration
  • Conducting research and development efforts to identify opportunities for AI enhancement in workflows, staying current with advances in large language models, prompt engineering techniques, and legal AI applications
  • Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Requirements

  • A minimum of three (3) years of experience in legal technology, knowledge management, or legal practice, with demonstrated experience in AI systems, prompt engineering, or workflow optimization
  • Demonstrate strong expertise in AI systems and prompt engineering, with the ability to optimize large language model outputs for accuracy, consistency, and alignment with legal practice standards
  • Possess solid understanding of transactional legal practice, including M&A, finance, and capital markets workflows, with the ability to translate practice requirements into AI workflow specifications
  • Display strong knowledge engineering capabilities, including developing prompt libraries, workflow templates, knowledge repositories, and quality assurance frameworks for AI-powered transactional tools
  • A bachelor’s degree or equivalent, in Law, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
Benefits
  • Healthcare, life and disability insurance
  • A generous 401k plan
  • At least 11 paid holidays per year, and a PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
  • Well-being programs (e.g. mental health services, mindfulness and resiliency, medical resources, well-being events, and more)
  • Professional development programs
  • Employee discounts
  • Affinity groups, networks, and coalitions for lawyers and staff
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AI systemsprompt engineeringworkflow optimizationlarge language modelsknowledge engineeringquality assurance frameworkstransactional legal practiceM&Afinancecapital markets
Soft Skills
strategic visiondata-driven insightscommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingattention to detailadaptabilityresearch skillsanalytical thinkingprioritization