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Legal engineer · FULL TIME

Legal Engineer, litigation background

You will be the in-house litigation subject-matter owner for what software may and may not claim for litigators, how outputs are framed, and what trust with lawyers means in product, pilots, and in front of customers; we look for a litigator who has run pieces of cases, not only supported them from the edge.

Opportunity

Scale Up Counsel is helping hire for a U.S. legal-software business with a Northeast U.S. presence, through this listing. The name is available in the hiring process, not in this post.

Recruited by Scale Up Counsel

LocationSoCal & NY
Work styleHybrid
Posted2026-04-01
CompensationCompetitive; details with finalists only (not published here)

Description

Role details

Scale Up Counsel is helping staff this position. The hiring organization is not described on the open web; you learn who they are in the process.

We need a litigation subject-matter owner who can translate how dispute practices work into product requirements, review behavior, and customer-facing language with zero looseness about risk.

What you will do

Extract from real litigation motion practice, discovery habits, and case strategy a precise description of what software should and should not claim to do for litigators, including around civil procedure edge cases and how outputs are framed.

Work in pilots and production with law firm and in-house users to test whether the product’s behavior matches those requirements; file crisp bugs and change requests, not “make it better.”

Be the in-house reference for the rest of the company on litigation when product, support, or sales are stuck; say “no” when a ship date would break trust with lawyers.

Join internal and external training or review sessions as the litigation voice when the calendar requires it.

Required

Several years in complex litigation, firm or in-house, with a record that shows you actually ran pieces of cases, not only supported them from the margins.

Ability to communicate across legal, product, and business audiences, including naming tradeoffs and defensible cuts.

Interest in a role that stays close to disputes and procedure without a billable-year-only path.

Compensation

The compensation structure and equity are for finalists, not a public number here.

Interested?

Apply through our attorneys contact form (this role is preselected), or send a referral.