Legal Engineer - Family Law

About Lawhive

Lawhive is a global, AI-native law firm. Operating in the US and UK, we’ve built our own agentic operating system for legal services.

We partner with leading Main Street law firms to give lawyers and back-office teams the AI platform, marketing, and operational support to grow faster than they could alone. Our specialized AI agent for legal work, Lawrence, works alongside lawyers, putting human legal judgment right where it belongs: at the center of every matter.

We most recently raised a $60M Series B at a $685M valuation, from investors including Google Ventures, TQ Ventures, Mitch Rales, Balderton Capital and Premier League footballers Harry Maguire and Reece James. In the last few years we've hit milestone after milestone, raising over $110M in funding. Today, we're on track to exceed $100 million in annual revenue, and we have offices in London, New York, Austin, and Phoenix.

So if you want your work to have real, tangible impact as we redefine an entire industry, Lawhive is where you can make it happen.

The Role

We’re hiring our first Legal Engineer focused on family law in the US. You’ll be a practicing (or previously practicing) family law attorney who wants to build the tools, not just use them.

You’ll work in two directions. With Product and Engineering, you’ll shape family-law-specific functionality in Lawhive: how matters are opened, how deadlines, hearings and disclosure obligations are tracked, and how pleadings, financial affidavits and settlement documents are drafted and checked. With our partner firms, you’ll configure Lawhive around how their attorneys and staff actually work, and keep tuning it until it saves them real time.

This is a hands-on role. You’ll write workflows and prompts, test outputs against your own legal judgement, and decide what good looks like for a family law practice.

You’ll start with an established family law firm with offices and clients in several states. The firm handles everything from uncontested divorces to complex high-asset and custody litigation, so Lawhive needs to support its whole caseload across different state rules and court practices.

What You’ll Do

Build with Product

• Act as the subject-matter lead for family law: map the end-to-end matter lifecycle, from intake and conflict checks through petition and service, temporary orders, financial disclosure and discovery, mediation, trial, final decree, and post-judgment modification and enforcement.

• Turn that knowledge into product requirements, workflows and acceptance criteria that engineers can build against.

• Design, test and refine the prompts, templates and checks our AI agent uses for family law work (for example, petitions and responses, financial affidavits, child support calculations, parenting plans, marital settlement agreements, asset and debt schedules, and QDROs).

• Build evaluation sets from real matter types and judge output quality as a practitioner would.

• Keep the product current as state statutes, child support guidelines, local court rules and forms change, working with our Legal Data librarian to maintain the firm’s context layer.

Work with partner firms

• Spend time with attorneys, paralegals and intake teams to understand where time is lost, then fix it in the product or in their setup.

• Run training and workshops so firms use more of the platform, and follow up on adoption.

• Measure the effect: time per matter, time to complete financial disclosure, drafting turnaround, and matters handled per attorney.

• Bring firm feedback back to Product and help decide what gets built next.

Grow the function

• Write playbooks for configuring and supporting family law firms, so the next legal engineer can pick them up.

• Help us decide how this model extends to other states and related practice areas, such as adoption, guardianship and estate planning.

What You’ll Bring

• JD and active admission to at least one US state bar.

• 3+ years practicing family law: contested and uncontested divorce, custody and parenting time, child and spousal support, property division, and post-judgment modifications.

• Familiarity with the more complex edges of family practice, such as UCCJEA jurisdiction disputes, Hague Convention child abduction cases, domestic violence protective orders, or high-asset matters involving business valuation and retirement division.

• A clear view of where family law practices lose time, and ideas for fixing it.

• Hands-on comfort with technology. You’ve built workflows, templates or automations, set up a case management system, or used generative AI seriously in your own practice. You don’t need to be a programmer.

• Good judgement on AI risk in a sensitive practice area: what can be automated, what needs attorney review, and how to tell the difference, especially where children, domestic violence or vulnerable clients are involved.

• Clear communication with both attorneys and engineers. You can explain the best-interests-of-the-child standard to a developer and a data model to a managing partner.

• Comfortable with ambiguity and with setting your own priorities in a fast-moving team.

Interview process

• Introductory call with our Talent team

• 1:1 with your hiring manager

• Practical skills assessment

• Values interview with one of our Founders

• We offer!

Benefits

• 🩺 Healthcare benefits: 'Premium' plan with 100% employee cover and 50% dependent cover

• ✈️ Vacation: 20 days + 11 Federal holidays + 1 day of Birthday leave

• 💰 401k: Matching contribution up to 2% of salary

• 💰 Meaningful early-stage share options

• 🌍 Work from anywhere for a month

• 💻 Top-spec Macbook

• ⛳️ Regular team building activities and socials!

Diversity at Lawhive

At Lawhive we know that diversity of thought is critical to delivering outlier outcomes. As such, we’re always working hard to ensure we build a diverse, inclusive team. We’re not yet where we want to be but as we scale we’ll only ever increase the focus we apply to this.