Lead AI

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 firms 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 firms 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 firms 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

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)

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.