Legal Engineer, Law Firms

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · Milan, Italy · Growth

This role is a Legal Engineer at Legora, an AI-native legal tech company. The role focuses on helping law firms adopt and maximize the use of Legora's AI platform. It involves acting as a thought partner, managing client relationships, gathering user feedback for product development, delivering product demos and training, and documenting best practices. The ideal candidate has a background in Big Law, is tech-curious, and can translate complex technical concepts to legal professionals.

What you'd actually do

  1. Acting as a thought partner to law firm partners, associates, and innovation teams - building trusted relationships, addressing tricky pain points, and identifying high-value opportunities for them to scale their use of Legora across practice groups.
  2. Working together with Go To Market and Engagement in taking full ownership of firm relationships - from running pilots with key practice areas, to onboarding new associates and partners, and ultimately guiding full-firm adoption across global law firms.
  3. Be the voice of law firm users inside Legora - sharing insights from M&A teams, litigation departments, and other practice groups that directly inform product development, roadmap priorities, and strategic direction.
  4. Delivering clear, confident product demos and training that bring the power of our platform to life - whether you're presenting to a single practice group or rolling out firm-wide.
  5. Documenting best practices from leading firms, contribute to the development of scalable playbooks, and help shape how we grow this function globally.

Skills

Required

  • Background in law, with experience at a top-tier law firm
  • Tech-curious and product-savvy
  • Communicate clearly and confidently with diverse stakeholders
  • Bring structure to ambiguity and energy to complexity
  • Understand how to evaluate and improve existing processes as a direct result of new and emerging technologies
  • Proactive, self-directed, and comfortable juggling multiple firm relationships at once

Nice to have

  • Experience across multiple practice areas or with exposure to firm-wide initiatives
  • Passionate about navigating technical conversations, especially around things like generative AI, technology implementation, innovation and productivity
  • Translating across disciplines is second nature to you
  • Enjoy being the calm, credible presence in a fast-moving environment
  • Streamlining due diligence, contract review, or legal research
  • Care deeply about quality, but don't get stuck in perfectionism
  • Understand the commercial realities of law firm life

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native workspace
  • AI will impact different practice areas
  • generative AI
  • AI