McDermott Will & Schulte is looking to apply AI to enrich the firm's matter, billing, and financial data to enable advanced firmwide search capabilities, improve compliance with outside counsel guidelines (OCGs) to protect revenue, and classify and analyze time entry data to generate actionable insights for pricing, staffing, and the impact of AI on billing efficiency.
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of AI technologies, particularly in text classification, natural language processing (NLP), and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
- Experience structuring and normalizing metadata for large-scale data environments
- Ability to strategically think and build, test, and iterate on AI solutions for practical business impact.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word)
Responsibilities
- Serve as product owner for CoCounsel: own day-to-day vendor relationship, track roadmaps, influence priorities, and schedule feature reviews and testing.
- Test enhancements from CoPilot on a quarterly basis to determine potential lawyer-facing use cases.
- Track and communicate new features and product updates from OpenAI to GenAI stakeholders across KM, IT, and GC.
- Monitor developments from other key AI vendors (e.g., Harvey, Legora, Centari) to evaluate emerging tools for potential firm use.
- Execute AI-driven initiatives prioritized by the CKO that strengthen matter metadata, billing compliance, and financial insights.
- Use AI to classify new business intake and client/matter records into matter types, roles, and industries; ensure clean, consistent metadata capture for the enterprise data warehouse.
- Deploy AI (e.g., CoCounsel or Relativity) to extract billing and compliance requirements from outside counsel guidelines, structuring them for enterprise use to reduce billing disputes and revenue leakage.
Other
- At least five (5) years of product management and project management experience in legal technology or professional services.
- Experience working with IT teams, legal SMEs, and vendors to deliver technology projects.
- Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage concurrent workflows
- Ability to design and deliver projects that align with firm-level strategic goals
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across business, legal, and technical teams while driving a unified data agenda.
