Legal Engineer Associate

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · London, United Kingdom · Growth

This role is for a Legal Engineer Associate at Legora, an AI-native legal tech company. The role involves supporting client-facing pilots, onboarding, and training, designing and evaluating AI use cases for legal tasks, assessing AI outputs for accuracy and relevance, capturing user insights for product development, and documenting best practices for AI deployment in legal settings. The ideal candidate is a newly qualified solicitor with legal experience and genuine tech curiosity, capable of translating between legal and technical teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support client-facing pilots, onboarding, and training — helping legal teams get real value out of Legora from the start.
  2. Design and evaluate use cases that put our AI to work on real legal tasks: contract review, research, drafting, due diligence, and more.
  3. Apply your legal experience to assess AI outputs — evaluating accuracy, commercial relevance, and usability with a practitioner's eye.
  4. Capture user insights and translate them into clear, actionable feedback that directly shapes product development.
  5. Document best practices and contribute to playbooks on how legal AI can be deployed effectively and scaled across firms.

Skills

Required

  • Qualified solicitor who has completed a training contract (NQ - 0.5 PQE)
  • Hands-on experience of legal workflows from a firm or in-house team
  • Strong technical foundation in law
  • Genuine tech curiosity
  • Commercial awareness
  • Natural translator between lawyers and technologists
  • Analytical and detail-oriented
  • Proactive and adaptable

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native workspace
  • AI is transforming legal work
  • AI to work on real legal tasks
  • evaluating accuracy, commercial relevance, and usability
  • directly shapes product development
  • deployed effectively and scaled across firms