Digitizing the world’s contracts

We are looking for a high energy Business Development Executive to help us deliver on our mission to speed up business. If you’ve got relevant experience, drive and enthusiasm for law and tech, then we’re interested in hearing from you.

At ThoughtRiver, we are disrupting legal services by providing innovative solutions to commercial challenges that lawyers and businesses face. We use artificial intelligence to enable lawyers to identify and interpret key provisions in contracts for the purposes of insight, triage and risk management. The foundation for our intelligence is Lexible, our proprietary contract knowledge framework.

We have an opening for a mid-level lawyer to join our team and lead quality assurance on Lexible’s legal intelligence capability.

You will report to our Chief Legal Intelligence Officer and will work closely with a number of teams across the business:

• Computer scientists and data analytics experts in our Intelligence team to support the iteration of new models and ongoing improvement of the Lexible output;
• Operational QA testers, to ensure stringent checks are undertaken to validate that changes to Lexible models are deployed successfully to production;
• Contract Intelligence team and Lexible engineers to analyse data on intelligence performance

You will drive a culture of constant improvement in our prediction output.

This is an exciting opportunity to test your legal skills and earn a stake in the future of legal technology that is disrupting the profession.

If you are intellectually capable, technically adept, proactive, meticulous and ready to challenge yourself in an emerging industry, please get in touch.

Primary Skill Requirements

You should be an excellent technical commercial lawyer that enjoys intellectual challenge. You are meticulous, rigorous and have a proactive approach.

Essential Technical Skills

• Minimum 3 years post qualification experience of commercial contract law
• Adept at analysing legal data
• Technical empathy and understanding of machine learning principles
• Excellent spoken and written English

Advantageous but not Essential skills

• Prior involvement with technology solutions that support legal operations
• Experience of data analysis/visualisation tools e.g. SQL

Personal Skill Requirements
This position will suit a technical lawyer with a precise attitude to legal concepts and processes. You will be persistent in your pursuit of perfection and willing to learn new skills and approaches.

It may suit a professional support lawyer, knowledge management lawyer or a senior lawyer returning to work who is interested in deploying their skills in the development of new technology-enabled legal services.

To apply please email your covering letter and CV to alix.balfe@thoughtriver.com

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The Company

ThoughtRiver addresses a fundamental problem for lawyers: you simply don’t know which part of a contract to focus on without reading it all. Our pre-screening technology automates this review process by reading the contract, answering key questions and suggesting what to do next.

Established in 2015, we are a fast-growing UK-based company with a global client list. We work closely with Cambridge University and include technologies and lawyers at the heart our business. Our product encompasses leading-edge AI technology, an innovative legal ontology and one of the world’s largest legal intelligence data sets.

The Role

We are seeking Software Engineers to be responsible for developing our RESTful API and the interchange of data between clients and servers. Your primary focus will be the development of server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from varied front-end applications.

Successful candidates will have a minimum of 1-year commercial experience working in a similar or related field.

Responsibilities

Designing, Developing and Maintaining the PHP RESTful APIs which underpin our product.

Completing product work against ThoughtRiver’s application stack including new feature development and maintenance changes.

Assessing new requirements in the form of stories; generating tasks, estimates, impact assessments.

Ensuring own and team code meets PSR standards; completing unit tests.

Adhering to technical development standards; working with Software Architect to implement architectural patterns.

Providing support to operations team in terms of release planning and operational handovers; assessing issues arising in production which cannot be resolved by support teams.

Ensuring all work is impact assessed and documented.

Reporting To

Head of Applications Engineering

Technical Skills Required

Essential

A high degree of knowledge and experience with Modern PHP.

A clear and demonstrable understanding of OOP principles.

Experience working with frameworks such as Slim, Lumen, Silex etc

Linux

REST API development

MySQL (or similar)

Test-Driven Development, Domain-Driven Design – highly desirable

Advantageous but not essential

Python

Javascript, modern JS libraries such as Angular, React or similar

Rewards

We offer all of our employees equity in the form of share options.

Additionally, competitive salary, 25 days holiday per annum, 4% employer pension contribution.

Person Profile

Accomplished engineer who relishes working in an ambitious, customer-driven company in the field of “expert systems”. Ability to work under pressure, enjoys a varied workload, and has excellent track record of self-development.

Apply now

The Company

ThoughtRiver addresses a fundamental problem for lawyers: you simply don’t know which part of a contract to focus on without reading it all. Our pre-screening technology automates this review process by reading the contract, answering key questions and suggesting what to do next.

Established in 2015, we are a fast-growing UK-based company with a global client list. We work closely with Cambridge University and include technologies and lawyers at the heart our business. Our product encompasses leading-edge AI technology, an innovative legal ontology and one of the world’s largest legal intelligence data sets.

The Role

Our Data Science team work on problems to improve and perfect the results from our Fathom Contextual Interpretation Engine. Working with Product Owners and legal language experts, we identify complex areas of interpretation required for different types and formats of contracts, initiate research projects with specific goals, then transition these into the Fathom product alongside our Engineering teams. Utilisation of the latest techniques available is hugely important, and relish collaboration with specialist we partner with in both academia and AI-focussed businesses.

Successful candidates will have strong academic background in this field, with minimum of 1-year commercial experience working in a similar or related field.

Reporting To

Head of Data Science

Technical Skills Required

Essential

NLP; Machine learning; Python

Strong plus

Graph technologies (networkx etc)

Experience with ontologies

Relation extraction

Unsupervised learning

Test-driven development

Domain-driven design

Rewards

We offer all of our employees equity in the form of share options.

Additionally, competitive salary, 25 days holiday per annum, 4% employer pension contribution.

Person Profile

Accomplished data scientist who relishes working in an ambitious, customer-driven company in the field of “expert systems”. Ability to work under pressure, enjoys a varied workload, and has excellent track record of self-development.

Apply now

Apply now

Description

At ThoughtRiver we are disrupting legal services by providing innovative solutions to commercial challenges that lawyers and businesses face. We use artificial intelligence to enable lawyers to identify and interpret key provisions in contracts for the purposes of insight, triage and risk management. The foundation for our intelligence is Lexible, our contract description framework.

We have an opening for a legal technologist to join our team, support the work of our Content Squad and work at the cutting-edge of law and technology.

This Content Squad owns our Lexible product, related applications and partner accreditation scheme. The squad also oversees legal data quality of our platform and helps build out-of-the-box content for our customers.

You will work closely with a number of teams across the business: our Customer Success teams to support second line resolution of legal intelligence investigations and the creation of new Lexible content; computer scientists and data analytics experts in our Intelligence team to support the iteration of new machine learning models and ongoing improvement of the Lexible output; and with the Product Owner and operational QA testers to support the development of our Lexible authoring and training applications.

If you are intellectually capable, technically adept, pro-active, meticulous and ready to challenge yourself in a new and emerging area, please get in touch.

Essential Skills

· Adept at analysing legal data

· A technical empathy and understanding of machine learning principles

· Prior success working in a collaborative, team environment

· Excellent spoken and written English

Advantageous but not Essential skills

· Post qualification experience of commercial contract law

· Prior involvement with technology solutions that support legal operations

The Candidate You should be a technical commercial lawyer with a precise attitude to legal concepts and process. You will be highly logical, meticulous, ordered and rigorous in your approach. You will be persistent in your pursuit of perfection. You are adaptable, inquisitive and willing to learn new skills and approaches. You can engage with lawyers and technologists and enjoy adapting your communication style to suit the audience. You enjoy intellectual challenges and have an interest and understanding in legal technology.

To apply please email your covering letter and CV to: rebekkah.provine@thoughtriver.com

Description

At ThoughtRiver, we are disrupting legal services by providing innovative solutions to commercial challenges that lawyers and businesses face. We use artificial intelligence to enable lawyers to identify and interpret key provisions in contracts for the purposes of insight, triage and risk management.

We are in an exciting period of growth and have offices and customers globally. As a scaling business we have a need for senior level legal support to help shape the legal function as well as managing and providing legal support across the business on a variety of matters typical of a growing business. These include:

• Drafting and negotiating sales contracts with ThoughtRiver’s customers together with development of best practice processes to support efficient conclusion of contracts
• Drafting and negotiating technology services contracts
• Managing the IP strategy to ensure the protection of ThoughtRiver’s Intellectual Property
• Ensuring the company and its processes are compliant with global data privacy laws
• Managing corporate and company secretarial matters
• Managing any litigation and pre-action claims
• Develop and support best-practice know-how and processes for ThoughtRvier’s legal team to ensure legal operational efficiency
• Contribute to public policy developments and thought leadership relating to the law and AI
• Supervision of a legal trainee and contribution and development of legal training programmes for the legal team and colleagues
• Advice on employment matters

You will have accountability for the range of legal matters typical of a scaling growth company engaging with outside counsel as appropriate. You will report into the VP Commercial and take instructions from other colleagues across the business.

You will be required to take a ‘technology-first’ approach to legal services taking advantage of the support offered by ThoughtRiver’s own tools as well as taking a pro-active approach to other legal tech tools on the market.

In doing so, you will help support the creation of an advanced in-house legal team supported by cutting-edge technology to support the efficient use of legal resource (both cost and time) and available know-how.

You will be part of creating a truly cutting-edge in-house legal team for ThoughtRiver allowing it to scale and grow effectively with the business. You will also provide an important feedback loop to ThoughtRiver’s product teams to support the constant iteration of the ThoughtRiver product for the benefit of its customer base.

Skill requirements

• You will be a senior corporate/commercial lawyer with a track record in delivering for clients and managing senior stakeholders
• You have experience negotiating and advising on SAAS licence agreements
• You have experience of working with early stage growth companies and associated financing rounds
• You have experience providing legal advice for businesses that trade internationally
• You have experience and interest in the development of junior lawyers
• Demonstrable interest in legal tech
• You have excellent communication skills
• You have excellent spoken and written English

Personal Skills Requirements

• You have a growth mindset with a curious and analytical mind
• You have a positive, can-do attitude and seek to own what is within your area of accountability
• You show commitment and are prepared to go above and beyond
• You are customer focussed and creative in the application of legal services
• You are laser focussed on goals and strive to deliver pragmatic and commercially orientated advice
• You are a committed and motivated student of the law and enthusiastic about developing your wider skills and competencies as a lawyer
• You are technologically minded and take a curious approach to new technology and the deployment of this tech to the benefit of the legal function
• You thrive in a dynamic environment
• You have good attention to detail and you are a clear communicator

We anticipate this role could initially be fulfilled as a part-time role but expect the role to develop as the business scales.

What happens next?

Think this sounds like the right next move for you? Please send your CV and covering letter to: martin.davidson@thoughtriver.com

The Company

ThoughtRiver addresses a fundamental problem for lawyers: you simply don’t know which part of a contract to focus on without reading it all. Our pre-screening technology automates this review process by reading the contract, answering key questions and suggesting what to do next.

Established in 2015, we are a fast-growing UK-based company with a global client list. We work closely with Cambridge University and include technologies and lawyers at the heart our business. Our product encompasses leading-edge AI technology, an innovative legal ontology and one of the world’s largest legal intelligence data sets.

The Role

We are seeking Engineers to be responsible for developing capability for our Exploration product suite. This allows lawyers to understand the dynamics of their domain by analysing trends and outliers in their contract portfolios, potentially combining with other data sets. The result is actionable insight, providing a much sought-after capability for legal teams to measure and improve.

The role involves understanding client requirements and being able to translate these into powerful visualisations, build data models to support the visualisations and support the development and maintenance of the data integration pipelines which populate the data models. All this is within a product development context where we seek to build once and deploy many times.

Successful candidates will have a minimum of 2 years commercial experience working in a similar or related field.

Responsibilities

Designing, Developing and Maintaining Tableau dashboards within the ThoughtRiver Exploration product suite.

Assessing client and product manager requirements to create and improve visualisations.

Providing training of Exploration product set and advanced Tableau features to clients and internal teams.

Contribute to the design, development and maintenance of data pipelines populating data models for Exploration.

Assessing new requirements in the form of stories; generating tasks, estimates, impact assessments.

Ensuring own and team outputs meet company standards; completing unit tests.

Adhering to technical development standards; working with Software Architect to implement architectural patterns.

Providing support to operations team in terms of release planning and operational handovers; assessing issues arising in production which cannot be resolved by support teams.

Ensuring all work is impact assessed and documented.

Technical Skills Required

Essential

A high degree of knowledge and experience with data analytics and visualisation tools; strong preference for Tableau.

Expertise with relational databases, database design and query construction and optimisation

A Test-Driven mentality

Highly advantageous

Data integration or ETL frameworks

Coding languages, particularly Python

NoSQL databases, particularly document databases and Elastic Search

Rewards

Competitive salary.

Equity in the form of share options.

Person Profile

Accomplished engineer who relishes working in an ambitious, customer-driven company in the field of “expert systems”. Ability to work under pressure, enjoys a varied workload, and has excellent track record of self-development. Collaborative approach and good team player; adept at communicating with business stakeholders and clients.