Legal Automation Specialist

Must Have

• 5+ years of experience as a Legal Engineer
• Experience with document automation tools (e.g., HotDocs, Clio, Docassemble, Ironclad, etc.)
• Strong data structuring, analysis, and workflow design capabilities
• Familiarity with legal practice management systems and integrations
• Understanding of legal processes (pre-litigation, litigation, or transactional workflows)
• Familiarity with compliance requirements and regulatory frameworks
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts across legal, product, and operations teams
• Solid project management skills with ability to manage multiple initiatives

Plusses

• Experience working in a plaintiff-side personal injury firm
• Experience with Filevine, Hona, Domo, or Dropbox

Day to Day

Insight Global is seeking a Legal Engineer to bridge the gap between legal expertise and technology for our Personal Injury Law Firm client in West Hollywood, California. This role is ideal for someone who understands legal workflows and is passionate about building scalable, tech-enabled solutions that enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and modernize legal operations. As a Legal Engineer, you will partner closely with attorneys, legal operations, and technical teams to design and implement automated workflows, deploy LegalTech tools, and integrate AI-driven solutions. As a Legal Engineer, you’ll build and optimize the systems that power case management—from intake through settlement—leveraging automation, AI, and data to reduce manual work and accelerate case velocity. Your work will directly impact case outcomes, client experience, firm profitability, and overall how legal services are delivered—freeing up legal professionals to focus on high-value, strategic work.

Main responsibilities include:

• Workflow Design & Automation: Map and build automated workflows for tasks.
• Process Optimization: Analyze existing legal processes to identify inefficiencies; redesign them to be more streamlined and user-friendly.
• Legal Technology Implementation: Research, evaluate, and integrate tools including document automation platforms.
• Legal Operations Support: Collaborate with ops teams to reduce costs and align legal processes with business goals.
• AI & Innovation: Integrate AI-powered tools into daily workflows; test and introduce emerging technologies such as machine learning and natural language processing.
• Risk & Compliance Tooling: Build tools that improve data accuracy and visibility into legal risk and compliance obligations across multiple jurisdictions.
• Change Management: Lead adoption of new tools and processes across the team, translating technical solutions for non-technical stakeholders.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work alongside law firm staff, developers, product managers, and legal ops professionals to build integrated, strategic legal systems.

Compensation:

$130,000 to $170,000 per year annual salary.

Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education.

Benefit packages for this role include: Benefit packages for this role may include healthcare insurance offerings and paid leave as provided by applicable law.

Notes:

We are open to candidates from a range of backgrounds- many candidates enter this field via legal ops or legal innovation roles.

•Law Graduates: Those who studied or practiced law before transitioning into technology.

•Paralegals: Professionals already familiar with legal workflows, document drafting, and procedural tasks.

•Legal Operations Specialists: Legal ops professionals looking to take the next step into engineering and automation.

•Tech / Product Professionals: Product managers, software developers, or IT specialists who have built legal domain knowledge through LegalTech roles.