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Latham & Watkins is one of the world's leading global law firms advising the businesses and institutions that drive the global economy. We are the market leaders in major financial and business centers around the world. Our investment in people, commitment to innovation, and focus on the future empower you to build an incredible career and thrive as an exceptional professional in a supportive culture. If you aspire to be the best, and work with the best, this is where you belong.

The Knowledge Transformation Attorney is an integral part of Latham's Technology & Information Services team. This role will be responsible for identifying, curating, structuring, and optimizing the firm's transactional precedents, playbooks, and accumulated practice expertise for use in AIpowered systems, while curating and transforming the firm's institutional legal knowledge into AIready assets, working under the direction of the Associate Director of Artificial Intelligence - Knowledge Transformation and applying AI tools to enhance productivity and quality of output. This role will be located in either our New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, or Bay Area offices. Please note that this role may be eligible for a flexible working schedule that allows for a hybrid and in-office presence.

Other key responsibilities include:

• Executing the firm's knowledge transformation strategy by converting transactional precedents, contract templates, and practice playbooks into structured, AIoptimised knowledge resources in accordance with established roadmaps and priorities
• Building and maintaining structured knowledge repositories, including clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, market terms databases, brief banks, motion templates, litigation strategy guides, and practicespecific guidance materials optimised for utilisation as AI context
• Working closely with Innovation Attorneys, Knowledge Management Lawyers, Legal Engineering teams, AI Services Attorneys, and technology colleagues to integrate knowledge assets into AIpowered workflows for document drafting, due diligence, contract analysis, deal execution, legal research, brief drafting, and case strategy development
• Engaging with Innovation Attorneys, practice group lawyers, and stakeholders to identify highvalue precedents, capture evolving market practice, and ensure knowledge assets are aligned with realworld practice needs and attorney expectations
• Staying current with advances in knowledge graphs, semantic search, retrievalaugmented generation, agentic AI, and legal AI applications, identifying opportunities for enhanced knowledge capture and optimisation
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains 

We'd love to hear from you if you:

• Possess working knowledge of knowledge management, taxonomy development, and information architecture, with the ability to structure complex legal content for effective AI consumption and retrieval
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of transactional legal practice, including M&A, finance, and capital markets workflows, with the ability to identify and curate highvalue precedents and practice knowledge
• Exhibit technical aptitude with AI systems and familiarity with concepts such as retrievalaugmented generation, semantic search, knowledge graphs, vector databases, agentic AI systems, and context window optimisation

And have:

• A bachelor's degree in a related field, preferably in law, library science, information science, computer science, or a related field
• A Juris Doctor (JD)
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in legal practice, knowledge management, or legal technology
• Experience with legal precedents, templates, or playbooks, preferably
• Experience in transactional legal practice, preferably, with litigation experience also valued

Successful candidates will not only be provided with an outstanding career opportunity and welcoming environment, but will also be provided with a generous total compensation package with bonuses awarded in recognition of both individual and firm performance. Eligible employees can participate in Latham's comprehensive benefit program which includes:

• Healthcare, life and disability insurance
• A generous 401k plan
• At least 11 paid holidays per year, and a PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
• Well-being programs (e.g. mental health services, mindfulness and resiliency, medical resources, well-being events, and more)
• Professional development programs
• Employee discounts
• Affinity groups, networks, and coalitions for lawyers and staff

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