Legal Engineers: The New AI Role Reshaping Law
Legal teams are not just adopting AI tools, they need to reimagine the work; who should do the work, how it should be done, and what should be redesigned entirely.
In this episode, host Irene Liu sits down with Mary O’Carroll, CEO of LegalEng Consulting Group and a longtime leader in legal operations and legal technology, to discuss legal ‘rightsourcing’ in the age of AI. Drawing on her experience across Google, Ironclad, law firms, legal tech companies, and consulting, O’Carroll explains why buying AI tools is only the beginning, and why the real opportunity lies in reimagining legal work itself. Together, they explore the shift from legal operations to legal engineering, the growing demand for legal solutions engineers and forward deployed engineers, and the talent gap facing in-house teams, law firms, and AI legal tech companies as they rethink how legal services are delivered.