CareerPlan

Innovation Counsel - Patent Counseling & Prosecution

New York, USFull-time$225k–$285k2026-09-11 → 2026-11-11

Core

Drive practice-specific initiatives to maximize the value of innovation technologies and legal tech adoption across a large law firm's practice groups.

Role type

Senior IC legal operations/innovation counsel

Builds

Playbooks, presentations, status reports, and change management campaigns for legal technology adoption

Domain

Legal services / Legal technology

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Legal practice experience, legal technology adoption, cross-functional project management, large law firm financial processes, Microsoft Office, iManage

Preferred skills

Distributed systems, core large law technologies (iManage, NetDocs, Elite 3E, Intapp, Litera, Thomson Reuters, Lexis), generative AI in legal, data analytics, alternative legal service models

Technologies

iManage, NetDocs, Elite 3E, Intapp, Litera, Thomson Reuters, Lexis, Microsoft Office, Generative AI

Responsibilities

Design and prepare playbooks for innovation technology best practices, organize executive briefings, collaborate on initiative prioritization, drive legal technology pilots and proofs of concept, analyze operational workflows to increase efficiency, develop change measurement processes, automate practice group resources

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC