AI & Law: Legal Engineers

Legal engineers are in high demand, here’s why

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Key briefing points about this article:

• Hiring for legal engineers remains brisk and the outlook is assuredly sunny
• There is some confusion in the marketplace about the role of a legal engineer
• They blend the combined expertise of software engineering and the legal realm
• A non-profit professional association exists, the American Society of Legal Engineers (ASLE)
• Legal engineers will continue to be in demand, even in light of no-code and low-code efforts

Introduction

Take a look at any of the various job ad boards in the legal profession and you’ll likely see an abundant and nearly desperate clamoring call for legal engineers.

Finding a legal engineer is rough to do since they are pretty much as scarce as hen’s teeth. In addition, there is a bit of confusion in the marketplace about what a legal engineer does, along with uncertainty about the appropriate qualifications for someone to tout the…