We have partnered with our client in their search for a Legal AI Domain Specialist local hybrid in NYC.
Responsibilities
- Translate attorney workflows into workable prototypes, short PRDs, and descriptions of need
- Identify where AI can improve legal research, drafting, summarization, citation checking, matter analysis, workflow automation, and client-service delivery. Particularly where emerging AI paradigms in other fields may make a difference in legal.
- Test AI outputs for legal accuracy, citation fidelity, hallucination risk, tone, usefulness, and workflow fit.
- Build prompt, evaluation, and feedback patterns that help engineers and product teams understand legal quality.
- Participate in design-partner sessions with law firm customers, including live feedback on prototypes and workflow experiments.
- Conduct structured conversations with law firm users and internal stakeholders to surface unmet needs and reusable product patterns.
- Partner with product, data science, engineering, design, and commercial teams to move quickly from idea to pilot.
- Help create a culture of experimentation in the SoHo office while preserving legal rigor, ethics, provenance, and customer trust.
Skills Required
- JD or equivalent legal training strongly preferred.
- 3-7 years of legal practice, legal innovation, legal operations, knowledge management, professional support, or legal product experience.
- Some coding experience / ability to learn quickly using AI tools
- Strong preference for candidates from AM Law 100 firms, especially New York-based practices or teams serving large law clients.
- Experience using legal research, drafting, workflow, or AI tools such as Lexis, Westlaw, Harvey, CoCounsel, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar platforms.
- Exposure to law firm practice workflows in litigation, corporate, regulatory, IP, tax, transactions, or knowledge management.
- Comfort working directly with attorneys, partners, legal innovation teams, and product/engineering teams in fast feedback loops.
About Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry unleashes potential in people, teams, and organizations. We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to reward and motivate their workforce while developing professionals as they navigate and advance their careers. To learn more, please visit Korn Ferry at www.Kornferry.com
