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Operating in the US and UK, we’ve built our own agentic operating system for legal services.\nWe 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.\nWe 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.\nSo if you want your work to have real, tangible impact as we redefine an entire industry, Lawhive is where you can make it happen.\nThe Role\nWe're hiring our first Legal Engineer focused on immigration and removal defense in the US. You'll be a practicing (or previously practicing) deportation defense attorney who wants to build the tools, not just use them.\nYou'll work in two directions. With Product and Engineering, you'll shape deportation-specific functionality in Lawhive: how matters are opened, how deadlines and hearings are tracked, how filings 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.\nThis 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 removal defense practice.\nYou'll start with an established immigration firm with offices and clients across the US. The firm handles much more than removal defense, so Lawhive needs to support its whole caseload.\nWhat You'll Do\nBuild with Product\nAct as the subject-matter lead for removal defense: map the end-to-end matter lifecycle, from intake and NTA review through master and individual hearings, relief applications, BIA appeals and bond.\n\nTurn that knowledge into product requirements, workflows and acceptance criteria that engineers can build against.\n\nDesign, test and refine the prompts, templates and checks our AI agent uses for immigration work (for example, EOIR filings, I-589 and cancellation of removal packages, evidence indexes, country conditions research).\n\nBuild evaluation sets from real matter types and judge output quality as a practitioner would.\n\nKeep the product current as policy, EOIR practice and agency guidance change, aligning with our Legal Data librarian, maintaining the firm's context layer.\n\nWork with partner firms\nSpend time with attorneys, paralegals and intake teams to understand where time is lost, then fix it in the product or in their setup.\n\nRun training and workshops so firms use more of the platform, and follow up on adoption.\n\nMeasure the effect: time per matter, filing turnaround, matters handled per attorney.\n\nBring firm feedback back to Product and help decide what gets built next.\n\nGrow the function\nWrite playbooks for configuring and supporting immigration firms, so the next legal engineer can pick them up.\n\nHelp us decide how this model extends to other immigration practice areas.\n\nWhat You'll Bring\nJD and active admission to at least one US state bar.\n\n3+ years practicing removal defense, with your own caseload in immigration court: detained or non-detained, master and individual hearings, relief applications and appeals.\n\nFamiliarity with federal court work for immigration clients, such as habeas petitions and mandamus actions.\n\nA clear view of where immigration practices lose time, and ideas for fixing it.\n\nHands-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.\n\nGood judgement on AI risk in a high-stakes practice area: what can be automated, what needs attorney review, and how to tell the difference.\n\nClear communication with both attorneys and engineers. You can explain a cancellation of removal standard to a developer and a data model to a managing partner.\n\nComfortable with ambiguity and with setting your own priorities in a fast-moving team.\n\nInterview process\nIntroductory call with our Talent team\n\n1:1 with your hiring manager\n\nPractical skills assessment\n\nValues interview with one of our Founders\n\nWe offer!\n\nBenefits\nHealthcare benefits: 'Premium' plan with 100% employee cover and 50% dependent cover\n\nVacation: 20 days + 11 Federal holidays + 1 day of Birthday leave\n\n401k: Matching contribution up to 2% of salary\n\nMeaningful early-stage share options\n\nWork from anywhere for a month\n\nTop-spec Macbook\n\nRegular team building activities and socials!\n\nDiversity at Lawhive\nAt 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. 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