Senior AI & Innovation Counsel

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At Norton Rose Fulbright, people thrive because of a shared commitment to quality, unity and integrity. The highly regarded law firm consistently receives recognition from Great Place to Work and Top Workplaces, two companies that specialize in assessing organizational culture. Teams collaborate across regions, value new ideas and deliver meaningful client solutions, supported by a culture that embraces ambition, development and shared success. With more than 3,000 lawyers and 3,000 business services professionals working together across 50 offices worldwide, this global law firm provides a full range of legal services to leading corporations and financial institutions operating in key markets and sectors.

About you   You are an accomplished attorney   seeking   to   leverage   your technical and commercial fluency in a global law firm. You are keen on not just   leveraging   AI for client delivery but rethinking how delivery gets executed at scale with the technology available. You are equally comfortable discussing workflows with attorneys, legal practice considerations with engineers, and translating ambiguity into commercial products. You bring a curious and conscientious mindset: focusing on client value while ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with firm risk tolerance.

About the role   Norton Rose Fulbright has a long-standing commitment to   leveraging   technology to enhance legal services and streamline operations. We are   seeking   a highly motivated and experienced   Senior AI & Innovation Counsel   to play   a central role   in embedding AI into legal practice and driving adoption across the firm. This role sits within the US Innovation team and reports to the US Director, Head of Innovation, and collaborates closely with legal practice groups, IT, KM, and other business services functions. A successful candidate will bring   strong   legal practice background, a practical understanding of AI technologies, and the ability to lead a team as well as complex, cross-functional initiatives.  

This is a unique opportunity to help build an AI and Innovation lawyer function inside one of the world's leading law firms -- with organizational support, a growing team, and genuine executive sponsorship. The work is consequential, the problems are hard, and the potential to reshape how legal services are delivered is real.  

This role is critical to translating the firm’s AI investments into real-world impact. By combining legal judgment with practical innovation, the Senior AI & Innovation Counsel ensures that solutions are not only built -- but trusted, adopted, and embedded into how legal work gets done.  

R esponsibilities include, but are not limited to:   As a player-coach, this   is a hands-on role where you will be focused on both your practice group and   people   leadership. Equally, you will build trusted relationships with attorneys and business service colleagues across the firm to drive alignment and support for the Innovation program’s initiatives.  

Practice Integration   • Embed within priority practice group(s) and support other Innovation teams and key Innovation initiatives by encouraging adoption of AI tools and workflows   • Validate AI outputs through a practiced legal lens, ensuring they meet professional, ethical, and client standards   • Translate attorney needs into actionable requirements for other innovation and legal engineering teams   • Integrate AI and agentic tools into existing legal workflows to improve efficiency, consistency, and quality   • Maintain a pipeline of practice driven priorities and use cases   • Contribute to a library of reusable workflow patterns and agentic playbooks that can be adapted across practices  

Use Case Development and Delivery   • Identify , prioritize, and develop high-value use cases based on real legal work and practice experience   • Decompose legal matter workflows into discrete tasks, decision points, and dependencies to   identify   where AI and agentic solutions can drive the greatest impact     • Partner with other Innovation functions and translate decomposed workflows into clear functional specifications: agent behaviors, guardrails, evaluation criteria, and success metrics     • Partner with attorneys, other Innovation teams, and Legal Practice Management to map matter lifecycles and pinpoint high-leverage automation opportunities within each phase   • Support rapid prototyping and testing of new workflows and tools; and help iterate solutions from concept to scalable, production-ready offerings   • Capture feedback and measurement loops from attorneys to continuously improve and   validate   solutions performance against attorney expectations and matter quality standards  

Capability Building and Leadership   • Operate as a player-coach, balancing hands-on engagement with people leadership and development     • Manage and mentor a team of AI and innovation lawyers as the function scales   • Establish AI and Innovation lawyer best practices/standards, cross-functional collaboration expectations and workflows, and quality practices for the team   • Partner with the Director of Innovation and senior leadership to shape the AI and Innovation lawyer roadmap and org design   • Lead with impact and client value, and help shape future commercial outcomes and team structures  

Collaboration and   Stakeholde r Engagement     • Build trusted relationships with partners and attorneys across practice groups   • Serve as an adoption conduit and be an interface between lawyers, Innovation, and technical teams   • Work directly with Innovation leadership, attorneys, practice leaders, and business stakeholders to co-design solutions   • Partner with the AI Governance & Program Manager, IT, and Info security teams to ensure solutions meet firm standards and governance requirements  

Qualifications:   • JD   required and must be admitted to practice in your home jurisdiction in the Uni

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