Senior AI & Innovation Counsel

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. 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 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 qua #J-18808-Ljbffr nrf