Senior AI Advisor

Weil seeks the best and brightest talent to join our Legal and Business services teams. Our employees are the future of Weil and we invest in their training and development. Our environment embraces and encourages positive-minded professionals who seek to be challenged and acquire knowledge and skills in an atmosphere built on teamwork. Highly skilled and knowledgeable Business Services professionals assist our lawyers in successfully meeting and exceeding client needs and are vital to the overall success of the Firm.

Job Description

Position:                     Senior AI Advisor

Department:               Legal Technology & Enablement

Based at:                    110 Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1AY

Reports to:                 Senior Manager, AI Acceleration, Partner Concierge & Lawyer Advisory

Overview

Reporting to the Senior Manager, AI Acceleration, Partner Concierge & Lawyer Advisory, and based in London, the person in this role will be a senior advisor in a newly formed, highly visible department that sits within the Legal Technology & Enablement team. This is a role for a qualified lawyer energised by legal innovation and drawn to working directly with senior lawyers; legal qualification is essential, as the advisory element of the role touches on live client matters.

Working in close collaboration with the Senior Manager, AI Acceleration, the AI Advisor, Paris, and your fellow AI Advisors, you will serve as a senior AI advisor to the partners of the firm’s European and Hong Kong offices, enabling them to speak confidently to their clients about AI, use AI in their daily work, understand what it means to supervise the use of AI, and leverage AI for business development purposes. Your overall remit is to build the confidence and proficiency partners need to use AI well in their own practice.

Primary Objectives

In partnership with the Senior Manager, AI Acceleration, your fellow AI Advisors, LASER, and the broader AI Enablement team, you will advance the firm’s core objectives:

• Build the confidence and proficiency of partners across the firm’s European and Hong Kong offices in their use of AI tools, working with each partner at their own level and pace. Design and deliver AI solutions for the problems partners raise, from the administrative side of practice to business development and the questions their clients are asking.

• Build partner proficiency directly, taking partners through the essentials of the firm’s AI tools.

• Provide AI advisory services on live-matter use cases, where lawyers need to know whether AI can help and which tool fits.

• Partner with LASER to meet the solution requests of partners, lawyers, and matter teams.

• Build the firm’s collective AI capability, so that what works for one partner can be reused across practices and offices.

Main Responsibilities (not exhaustive)

Partner Concierge Service

• Act as a senior AI advisor to the partners of the firm’s European and Hong Kong offices, earning their trust from the first conversation.

• Orient partners to the firm’s AI tools: what the firm has licensed, how to gain access, and which tool suits which kind of work.

• Take in requests from the partners in your region, triage them, and log each one in the team’s record so it can be tracked through to resolution, including requests referred to LASER or IS.

• Facilitate working sessions that take partners from first access to applying the firm’s AI tools in their own practice.

• Keep a ready set of session outlines, curriculum, and worked examples for each tool, so any partner can be brought up to speed efficiently and at the depth they want, and contribute them to the team’s central set so colleagues in other offices can adapt them.

• Build and refine solutions around the way individual partners and their teams actually work, taking on directly what is within reach and bringing LASER in where a request calls for more.

• Develop AI talking points and materials that help partners speak with confidence to their clients about the firm’s use of AI.

• Build AI sessions for partner audiences and deliver them in whatever setting fits, from one partner at their desk to a practice group’s partners together.

Lawyer Advisory

• Advise lawyers on discrete AI use cases arising in live matters, assessing where AI can add value and which tool best fits the task.

• Partner with LASER and practice group AI solution lawyers where a matter use case warrants a purpose-built solution.

• Keep advisory work to tool fit and workflow.

Collaboration & Continuous Learning

• Champion a culture of curiosity and continuous learning, meeting partners and lawyers where they are.

• Work closely with your fellow AI Advisors and the AI Advisory Analyst to deliver a consistent service across the firm’s offices.

• Cultivate trusted relationships across the broader Legal Technology & Enablement group and with LASER, Professional Development, and IS.

• Add every solution you deliver to the team’s solutions record at the point of delivery and keep your entries current so a colleague can pick up an engagement when you are unavailable.

• Stay current on AI and legal technology trends, tracking peer firm developments and wider market direction.

Person Specification

• Qualified lawyer (solicitor or barrister of England and Wales, or an equivalent qualification in another jurisdiction), with a current practicing certificate or eligibility to hold one. Meaningful post-qualification experience in private practice is essential, as the role involves advising partners and lawyers on the use of AI in live matters.

• Extensive experience (typically 7+ years) in legal technology, innovation, enablement, knowledge management, or practice support, ideally within a law firm, professional services, or comparable knowledge-driven environment.

• Strong practical fluency with generative AI tools.

• Strong understanding of how partners lead teams, serve clients, and build business, and of where AI can improve that work.

• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with proven ability to build credibility with partners and senior lawyers.

• Demonstrated success driving technology adoption with senior stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to build training from scratch, including session outlines and worked examples, and deliver it to a senior professional audience, one-to-one and in front of a group.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.

• Willingness to travel to the firm’s other offices as engagements require.

Weil offers a competitive compensation package which comprises of base salary and discretionary year-end bonus (for eligible employees).  Benefits include, but are not limited to Contributory Pension Scheme, Life Assurance (4 x annual salary), Income Protection Scheme, Private Medical Insurance, GP Service, 25 days holiday, Subsidised Staff Restaurant, Health Screening, Annual Well Being Allowance, On-site Gym, Employee Assistance Programme and Season Ticket Loan.

Weil is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to encouraging inclusion among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. It is our policy to attract, train, compensate and develop based on merit and without regard to gender, race, social or economic background, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, age, or any other category protected by applicable law. You can find out more about inclusion at Weil here.

At Weil we strive to create an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. Should you require any reasonable adjustments or additional support at any stage of the recruitment process please do not hesitate to contact a member of Weil’s recruitment team at London.Recruitment@weil.com.