Director of Knowledge and Innovation

DIRECTOR OF KNOWLEDGE & INNOVATION, LITIGATION

The Director of Knowledge & Innovation, Litigation will drive knowledge management programs, resources, and technology solutions that support the firm's Litigation practice groups. They will lead and develop a substantial team, including Knowledge & Innovation lawyers who serve as subject matter experts across the Litigation practice groups. The Director assists with the day-to-day relationships with Litigation practice leadership and turns practice priorities into practical, practice-integrated solutions.

The Director of Knowledge & Innovation, Litigation will report to the firm’s Managing Director of Knowledge & Innovation, and will work closely with lawyers and business professionals to organize, maintain, and disseminate legal knowledge, precedents, research, and best practices to improve efficiency and service delivery.

The Director of Knowledge & Innovation, Litigation will:
•Lead, manage, and develop the Litigation Knowledge & Innovation team, including Knowledge & Innovation lawyers who serve as subject matter experts across key areas of the Litigation practices; Set priorities for the team in alignment with corporate practice group needs and the firm's innovation strategy.
•Develop a broad and deep understanding of the firm’s Litigation practices and competitive position; work closely with the firm’s Managing Director of Knowledge & Innovation, Chief AI & Knowledge Officer, practice group leaders, and other partners and key stakeholders – assessing and addressing business needs with practical, scalable, solutions and approaches, and managing end-to-end implementation.
•Foster an environment that is team-oriented and committed to professional excellence and the highest levels of client service; drive professional development, role clarity, and effective deployment of team resources across initiatives, and establish clear accountability for outcomes and consistent delivery against priorities.
•Champion and advance corresponding operational, organizational, and behavioral change management efforts, and work with Litigation practice stakeholders to remove barriers to adoption, ensuring sustained use of new solutions; share innovations across the Litigation practices so that a tool or approach developed in one group can be adapted and reused by others.
•Monitor the frontier of knowledge management and legal innovation pertaining to the firm’s Litigation practices, and apprise practice group leaders and other firm senior leadership on relevant emerging technologies, market landscape, and client expectations.
•Lead Litigation data initiatives, including identifying, structuring, and operationalizing key datasets such as briefs, motions, and pleadings, discovery data, and case outcomes; identify and prioritize high-value AI use cases across core workflows such as case assessment, discovery, and brief and motion drafting.
•Collaborate with the firm's innovation and pilot teams to design and run pilots aligned with Litigation practice priorities.
•Collaborate with the Director of Knowledge & Innovation, Corporate to maintain a coordinated and consistent approach to knowledge and innovation across the firm.
•Partner with the firm's training function to deliver role-specific, workflow-based AI training for Litigation teams.
•Partner with the Practice Solutions team on vendor evaluations, contributing practice insight while Practice Solutions owns execution.
•Track adoption and impact of K&I solutions across the Litigation practices and refine priorities based on the results.