Sr. Advisor, AI Acceleration - Attorney Enablement (East Coast)

Weil seeks the best and brightest talent to join our Administrative Staff team. Our employees are the future of Weil so 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 Administrative Staff assist our attorneys in successfully meeting and exceeding client needs and are vital to the overall success of the Firm.

Job Description

Reporting to the Senior Manager, AI Acceleration & Attorney Enablement based in London, the person in this role will be a senior leader within a newly formed, high-visibility department within the Legal Technology & Enablement team. This is a role for someone energized by legal innovation and passionate about transforming how attorneys work, not merely deploying tools, but driving genuine, lasting adoption across the firm’s East Coast offices.

Based in New York and responsible for the firm’s East Coast offices, you will act as the on-the-ground lead for AI enablement in the region. You will be working closely with the Senior Manager, AI Acceleration & Attorney Enablement and the Sr. Director, Technology Strategy & Enablement, while operating with a high degree of autonomy given the distributed nature of the team.

You will own key stakeholder relationships across your region, motivating and aligning counsel, associates and practice managers around the firm’s technology strategy. Although this role allows for mostly remote working, you will be expected to attend the NY office and travel to the East Coast offices as required.

Primary Objectives:

In partnership with the Senior Manager and the broader AI Enablement team, you will advance the firm’s core objectives across the East Coast:

• Lead the delivery of a global, attorney-facing AI Enablement program across the firm’s East Coast offices.
• Provide lawyers in your region with the foundational skills needed to practice law responsibly with AI and other legal technology tools to complete day-to-day tasks more efficiently and to innovate new ways of working.
• Drive measurable incorporation of AI and legal technology into the practice of law by leading change management programs that move attorneys from awareness to confident, habitual use.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (LASER, Professional Development, Training) to align on and accelerate technology adoption objectives across your region.
• Act as the primary point of contact and escalation for AI enablement matters across the East Coast, ensuring the region’s-based leadership has clear visibility of their office’s progress and risks.
• Track and interpret adoption analytics across the attorney cohort to measure the effectiveness of enablement activity and direct effort where it is most needed.

Primary Responsibilities and/or Essential Functions:

AI Enablement & Literacy

• Lead the enablement and change management strategy for attorney-facing AI and legal technology tools across the East Coast offices.
• Design and execute AI and legal technology enablement programs that teach attorneys to leverage AI and legal technology in every layer of legal and client delivery, from document review, drafting and legal research to case management and due diligence.
• Design and deliver training curricula, “AI academies” and adoption campaigns such as hackathons, workshops and vendor deep dives, tailored to the needs of East Coast practice groups.
• Build and maintain a ready set of session outlines, curriculum and worked examples for each tool, contributing them to the team’s central library so colleagues in other offices can adapt them.

Change Management

• Own the attorney-facing change management discipline for AI and egal technology rollouts across the East Coast, anticipating resistance and proactively identifying and resolving difficult dynamics within implementation.
• Develop change strategies, communications plans and reinforcement mechanisms that account for the distinct needs of attorneys.
• Lead the development of change management communications and resources such as information portals, newsletters, user guides, FAQs and video guides.
• Champion a culture of curiosity and continuous learning, ensuring enablement resources meet attorneys where they are and scale with the firm.
• Contribute to AI partnering and experimentation with practice groups, helpin…