Senior AI & Innovation Counsel

Senior AI & Innovation Counsel – United States Norton Rose Fulbright is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior AI & Innovation Counsel to embed AI into legal practice and drive adoption across the firm. This role sits within the US Innovation team, reports to the US Director, Head of Innovation, and collaborates closely with legal practice groups, IT, KM, and other business services functions. Candidate Profile You are an accomplished attorney with technical and commercial fluency, ready to leverage AI for client delivery and rethink how delivery gets executed at scale. You are 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. Responsibilities 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 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; partner with other Innovation functions and translate decomposed workflows into clear functional specifications. Support rapid prototyping, testing, and iteration of new workflows and tools until they are production-ready, and capture feedback and measurement loops from attorneys to continuously improve performance. 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 best practices and standards for the team, cross‑functional collaboration expectations, workflows, and quality practices. Partner with the Director of Innovation and senior leadership to shape the AI and Innovation lawyer roadmap and org design, influence commercial outcomes and team structures. Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement: Build trusted relationships with partners and attorneys across practice groups, serve as an adoption conduit between lawyers, Innovation, and technical teams; work 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. Minimum seven years' experience as a practicing attorney or in KM/Innovation within professional services, preferably at an AmLaw 100 law firm. Demonstrated deep understanding of legal workflows and how legal work is delivered in practice. Proven experience with legal technology, project management, business planning, and team management. Comfort operating in ambiguity: this function is still being defined and you will help define and mature it. Excellent communication skills and ability to translate business or legal requirements into technical solutions and workflows. Ability to present to senior partners and work alongside engineers quickly. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, deliver results in a fast‑paced environment, and drive organizational behavior change. Broad market curiosity about AI and its implications for the future of legal practice. Understanding of data privacy, security, and responsible AI considerations in a professional services context. Experience developing scalable frameworks, playbooks, or reusable solution patterns. Benefits Employees have access to a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; pre‑tax health savings and flexible spending accounts; 401(k) savings plan; profit‑sharing plans; fertility benefits; paid time off (minimum 20 days); paid parental leave (minimum 14 weeks); firm holidays; and other standard benefits. Equal Employment Opportunity Norton Rose Fulbright USLLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal laws and their implementing regulations that require the collection and recording of certain data and information. The information we receive will not be used to make any decision regarding employment and will be kept separate from your application. Similarly, self‑identification information is kept confidential and used only in accordance with applicable federal laws and regulations. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Norton Rose Fulbright is committed to providing reasonable accommodation as an Equal Opportunity Employer to applicants with disabilities. #J-18808-Ljbffr NRF United Kingdom