Legal Technologist, Document Automation Specialist (Real Estate)

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team of Legal Technology Product Managers and Technologists, assisting with finding creative methods for both legal technology and document automation to improve our delivery of services to clients.  The ideal candidate will have experience in legal technology and document automation, and experience working with legal departments/law firms leveraging various technology tools to drive efficiencies in attorneys’ workflows, processes, and document drafting.

Responsibilities

Document Automation

• Intake and translate document requirements from partners and associates into clear, logical frameworks for automated document templates.

• Use document automation technologies (e.g. Contract Express, HotDocs, Avvoka) to auto-mate legal documents, including creation of new templates, updates to existing templates, creation and maintenance of attribute libraries. 

• Design logic and conditionality to handle the insertion of different outputs into documents based on pre-defined scenarios. This includes manual programming for complex requirements.

• Develop, maintain and apply comprehensive system-wide libraries to standardize and optimize the efficiency of the automation system.

• Implement efficient and reusable code for legal document automation, prioritizing code clarity, maintainability.

• Train associates and paralegals on Document Automation tool

• Identify automation opportunities to improve processes and enhance efficiencies

• Provide regular reports to team and stakeholders on status of automation projects 

• Serve as the automation expert for the US Real Estate Practice.

• Maintain a strong understanding of the automated templates to support efficient updates and future development, ensuring ongoing adherence to automation and document standards.

• Acquire and maintain a comprehensive knowledge of relevant technology products supported by the team and provide creative suggestions to enhance the quality and efficiency of support provided to stakeholders.

Assist Legal Technology Product Manager in:

• Supplying wider technology expertise to stakeholders;

• Providing support, troubleshooting and training to attorneys; and

• Logging software bugs to promote improvements.

• Perform other duties as assigned by the Chief Knowledge & Innovation Officer, Director of Practice Solutions or Associate Director of Practice Solutions.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree is required

• Master’s degree preferred

Experience

• 2+ years’ experience in document automation (prior experience at a law firm is highly desirable).

• Experience of document automation products essential (e.g., Contract Express, HotDocs, Avvoka etc.). 

• Familiarity with computational thinking (understanding concepts of conditionality etc.) is highly desirable. This may have been gained by a computer science course or on-the-job experience for example)

• Proficient in MS Office and expertise in Microsoft Word (e.g. ICDL Level 3 or equivalent) (including expertise in section formatting, style management, multi-level numbering, cross referencing and modification of visible/invisible field codes and content controls)

• Strong time management and organizational skills.

• Strongly detail oriented in legal writing and legal document formatting, with the ability to maintain focus and accuracy during repetitive tasks.

• Project management skills with ability to multi-task among multiple time-sensitive matters

• Ability to anticipate problems, gather information, analyze and make recommendations

• Experience working both independently and in a team oriented, collaborative environment

Salary Information

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