Practice Lead, Law Firm Transformation

Harvey Harvey · AI Frontier · New York, NY · Go to Market

This role is a Practice Lead for Law Firm Transformation at Harvey, a company that provides AI solutions to legal and professional services. The role involves partnering with law firms to help them adopt and integrate AI into their operations, designing transformation programs, and building operational infrastructure for the practice. It requires deep understanding of the legal industry, AI, and enterprise transformation, with a focus on driving adoption and measurable outcomes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as a trusted transformation advisor to Harvey's most strategic law firm clients and prospects, embedding directly in their world to understand how they operate, where AI can move the needle, and what it will take to get there.
  2. Draw on the full range of Harvey's capabilities: sales, legal engineering, customer success, legal innovation, and product to connect the right assets and expertise to each firm's unique challenges and opportunities.
  3. Design and lead end-to-end AI transformation programs covering use case prioritization, executive alignment, rollout planning, governance, and success measurement, spanning all facets of organizational change: Technology, Skills, Communications, Structures, and Governance.
  4. Help firm leaders translate complex AI capability into clear, actionable strategies that make sense for each firm's size, structure, practice mix, and ambitions.
  5. Build and own the operational infrastructure of this practice: repeatable transformation playbooks, executive workshop formats, value realization frameworks, and practice area benchmarks that allow Harvey to scale high-quality transformation support across firms worldwide.

Skills

Required

  • JD or equivalent legal qualification
  • 12+ years of experience practicing law at a top-tier law firm
  • Subsequent experience at a top-tier management consulting firm with a focus on enterprise transformation, organizational change, or professional services strategy
  • Deep understanding of the business of law
  • Executive presence and client credibility
  • Proven ability to build from the ground up
  • Strong point of view on where AI is taking the legal industry
  • Comfort with data-informed decision-making
  • High-agency operating style

Nice to have

  • Empathy and communication skills to meet clients where they are and bring them along on the journey

What the JD emphasized

  • Deep understanding of the business of law
  • Proven ability to build from the ground up
  • Strong point of view on where AI is taking the legal industry
  • High-agency operating style suited to a fast-moving, ambiguous, early-stage environment