We are closely partnering with a well-funded, legal automation / AI start up, focused on building matter management solutions for specific legal practices, including conveyancing, banking & finance, and disputes & litigation. Each solution gives a practice a single operating layer to automate procedural, high-volume work, delegate matter steps to reliable, auditable workflows, and visualise the status of every matter end to end. This is a hybrid role based in Sydney or Brisbane.
The firm are building a matter management solution to manage dispute matters. This hire heads up the build end to end: domain authority on how disputes run, validation of every workflow against real practice, and peer-to-peer engagement with the litigation practices they sell to. The solution covers court deadline management, document bundling, chronology building, and correspondence tracking; the infrastructure layer for matters that run for months or years.
About the Role
Act as the domain authority on litigation practice: define the court‐deadline logic, procedural rules, and edge cases that drive the automation engine
Validate every workflow against how disputes actually run; directions timetables, interlocutory applications, discovery, document bundles, chronologies, and correspondence tracking




Work hands‐on with product and engineering to translate litigation practice into product features, data models, and automations
Lead customer engagement. This could include running peer‐to‐peer conversations with litigation partners and their teams, and validating the product against real matters
Review and quality‐check automated workflows for accuracy, completeness, and jurisdictional correctness
About You
Senior commercial litigation background;
at least 5 years of litigation experience
in a law firm
, running complex commercial disputes.
Deep working knowledge of court procedure across Australian jurisdictions, including directions timetables, discovery, evidence preparation, and costs
Ability to articulate complex litigation processes clearly to a technical team
Precision with business rules and edge cases; the platform is only as good as the procedural logic behind it
Comfortable working inside a quick‐moving product build team alongside engineers and designers
Nice to Have
Insolvency and/or construction disputes experience - this would be a genuine bonus for the product roadmap
Prior exposure to legal technology, software teams, or process‐improvement work within your firm
Experience running matters across multiple Australian jurisdictions
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📌 Legal Engineer - Litigation (New South Wales)
🏢 Novum Global
📍 New South Wales