Practice Innovation Advisor - Chicago, United States - Katten

Katten

Verified Company

Chicago, United States

4 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Katten is a full-service law firm with approximately 700 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai.

Clients seeking sophisticated, high-value legal services turn to Katten for counsel locally, nationally and internationally.

The firm's core areas of practice include corporate, financial markets and funds, insolvency and restructuring, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, structured finance and securitization, transactional tax planning, private credit and private wealth.

Katten represents public and private companies in numerous industries, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals.

Practice Innovation Advisor

Nearly 50 years ago, 24 attorneys in Chicago had a vision to create a law firm more innovative and entrepreneurial than those they had left.

Their inspiration was their clients and finding even better ways to provide superb legal services and creative advice to them.

Our business has evolved over the decades—but our vision remains the same.

Today, Katten is the full-service, business-oriented law firm that our founders envisioned, providing sophisticated, high-value legal services across the United States and abroad.

Our innovation team maintains that vision by exploring new process and technology solutions to modernize our client service delivery and firm operations.

We infuse business design, technology, and data science into the practice of law.

Under the direction of the Chief Innovation Officer and the Innovation and Data Science Manager, the Practice Innovation Advisor will play an active role by supporting ongoing implementations of emerging technologies throughout the firm and will be encouraged to think big to identify new opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our legal teams.

Katten offers a hybrid work model, allowing the flexibility to work both on-site and remotely on a regular basis (KattenFlex).

This position may be located in either our Chicago or New York office.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include, but may not be limited to, the following. Other duties may be requested and/or assigned. Essential functions are primary job duties that an individual must be able to perform successfully with or without a reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Collaborate with lawyers, clients, firm leadership, and operational teams, including Practice Operations, Talent, Information Technology, Marketing and Business Development, and Accounting and Finance, to grow the firm's culture of innovation and improve the practice of law.
Work with attorney teams, clients, and practice groups to deliver innovative client solutions and legal technologies that support the efficient management of legal matters.
Maintain a current awareness of emerging technology tools (both generally and among law firms and legal departments) to ensure that the firm stays ahead of the curve.
Partner with practice groups to develop goals and strategy around service delivery.
Research and evaluate tools and procedures that promote productivity and service quality.
Partner with our data science team, Katten DataLAB, to find solutions to client challenges and needs.
Build and maintain relationships with existing and potential vendors to coordinate updates of existing platforms and to identify/vet potential new platforms.
Implement new processes, including working to integrate software in our solutions for attorneys and practice groups.
Be an internal and external advocate for the innovation team and new solutions that benefit the firm and our clients.
Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders within the firm's practice departments to socialize the benefits of emerging technology tools, drive projects through to completion, and identify/vet potential new use cases.
Be familiar with new products and other developments in legal innovation and software.
Assist in our AI and Gen AI efforts.
Manage projects under direction of the Senior Innovation and Data Science Manager and Chief Innovation Officer.
Assist in design thinking exercises with internal teams and client facing teams.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Familiarity with some or all of the following: document automation tools, NLP/ML contract analysis tools (such as Kira, Luminance, etc.), collaboration platforms (such as SharePoint, HighQ, etc.). and/or Business Intelligence/ETL platforms.
Displays intelligence, creativity, resilience, and persistence in solving varied, complex, and nonroutine problems.
Comfortable working both independently and in diverse teams.
Displays excellent time management and project management skills to meet objectives and deadlines.
Able to effectively distill complex information, synthesize, simplify, and present to Firm Management, attorneys, and business professiona