Practice Innovation Counsel, AI Enablement
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Brownstein is seeking a Practice Innovation Counsel, AI Enablement in our Denver, Los Angeles, or New York office to support the firm’s next phase of AI-enabled practice innovation. This role will bridge the firm’s lawyers and technology function by driving adoption of approved AI tools, executing vendor evaluations, supporting pilots and rollouts, and translating practice needs into practical workflows, training programs, and solution requirements.
This is a highly visible, relationship-driven role for a licensed attorney with corporate or other transactional practice experience and a practical understanding of generative AI and legal technology. The Practice Innovation Counsel, AI Enablement will report to and work closely with the Practice Innovation Manager, while partnering with other stakeholders to align the firm’s AI investments with lawyer needs, client service priorities, and Brownstein’s broader strategic goals.
The right candidate will understand that successful AI adoption in a law firm depends not only on technology, but also on trust, credibility, judgment, and change management. This role is designed for someone who can engage substantively with lawyers, understand where AI fits and where it does not, and create practical pathways for responsible use.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Workflow Development and Practice Engagement
- Partner with practice groups and individual lawyers to identify high-value, practice-specific use cases and translate them into practical, repeatable workflows, templates, and job aids.
- Analyze legal workflows, assess where AI can add value, and help create new processes and resources that support responsible use.
- Engage the AI Practice Network as a channel for feedback, use case sharing, emerging needs, and adoption within practice groups.
- Support engagement with the firm's AI Billable Credit initiative.
Training and Enablement
- Design and deliver individual, group, and department-based training for attorneys, paralegals, and other professionals.
- Develop role-based learning paths that support both foundational and advanced adoption.
- Develop and maintain practical enablement resources, including training materials, workflow guides, use-case libraries, templates, FAQs, and other attorney-facing materials for approved AI and legal technology tools.
- Collaborating with the Practice Innovation Manager, Office of General Counsel, and Professional Development, translate firm policies and responsible-use guidance into practical training materials, examples, checklists, and workflow guardrails.
Evaluations, Pilots, and Implementations
- Support vendor evaluations, product demos, pilot programs, and implementation activities for approved AI and legal technology tools.
- Document success stories, common challenges, and lessons learned from pilots, trainings, and tool rollouts, and help convert those insights into reusable guidance for practice groups.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for attorney adoption of the firm’s approved AI tools and workflows.
Feedback, Communications, and Continuous Improvement
- Synthesize attorney feedback, recurring questions, and adoption trends into training priorities, product enhancement requests, workflow improvements, pilot opportunities, and stakeholder communications.
- Monitor emerging legal technology capabilities, seeking to identify high-value opportunities for firm stakeholders and advising on related evaluation efforts.
- Contribute to identifying broader trends in attorney adoption and informing Brownstein’s evolving AI roadmap.
Required and Preferred Qualifications: Brownstein is seeking a licensed or former transactional attorney who brings strong attorney-facing credibility and relevant innovation experience.
Ideal candidates will bring:
- J.D. and 3-7 years corporate or other transactional experience.
- Understanding of legal workflows and legal service delivery.
- Experience in legal technology, practice innovation, knowledge management, attorney enablement, or a related function.
- Experience supporting vendor evaluations, pilots, trainings, or rollouts of legal technology tools.
- Experience working directly with lawyers in a law firm or similarly sophisticated professional services environment.
- The ability to communicate credibly with partners, associates, paralegals, and firm leadership.
- Familiarity with generative AI tools and their application in legal practice.
- Sound judgment about quality, confidentiality, risk, and the practical realities of legal work.
- Strong facilitation, project management, and presentation skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- The ability to design and deliver clear, practical training for attorney audiences.
- Experience identifying and shaping use cases, gathering and synthesizing user feedback, and collaborating across administrative and technical teams.
- A strong sense of ownership, curiosity, professionalism, and service orientation.
Compensation and Benefits: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck offers a benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k) + match, profit sharing, and vacation/sick/personal time off. We are offering a salary range of $170,000 - $200,000, commensurate with experience and location.
To Apply: Please submit a cover letter and resume.
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck is an equal opportunity employer.
Brownstein will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended by the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008, interpretive regulations and other authority, and applicable state laws.
While Brownstein does not discriminate on the basis of citizenship, the successful candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship of a work visa, or Brownstein assuming sponsorship of an existing work visa; including student visas with an OPT/CPT designation.
