Would you like to be a part of a long-standing automation team of over 20 years standing? The team sits in an active Innovation department and is looking to take automation forward out of the "cost savings" bucket and integrating it into our wider business. We are building out our client facing offerings and ensuring that automation at CMS links into new legal tech offerings on the market.

About CMS
CMS is a Future Facing firm. With 75 offices in 43 countries and 4,800+ lawyers worldwide, we combine deep sector understanding with a global overview, giving us the ability not only to see what's coming, but to shape it.

CMS is well equipped to help our clients face the future with confidence. We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of delivering legal services. Our bold approach to a changing future ensures that we nurture our employees and recruit top talent.

About the RoleYou will:
* Support practice groups to automate their standard documents and to keep their respective standard documents accurate and up to date. In particular, you will work with key knowledge contacts and PSL teams.
* Engage in a collaborative development and testing regime with senior developers and other members of the team.
* Train document specialists, secretaries and others in the firm to use the automated drafting tool and present on its benefits.
* Train lawyers on how to mark-up documents for automation and provide advice on the best practice for document automation.
* Research new procedures/services/products that can improve efficiency and document quality.
* Follow the firm's standard internal procedures, ensuring the correct levels of access are granted to users (user/editor/administrator).
* Liaise with the HotDocs vendor contacts and technical team under the direction of the team manager and the head of Documentation Production, Automation and Design.
* Provide support on the integration of automation into other key firm applications, including collaboration and workflow tech, to automate the product extracted by AI tools.
* We are looking for a developer who has demonstrative experience of Application Development experience to automate, develop and customise documents/templates in a HotDocs environment. The successful candidate will have the ability to understand and write basic logic for document scripting and have a good understanding of template behaviours when combined with automated (AI) and collaboration technologies.

About You

* Degree (or equivalent).
* Legal qualifications are desirable but not essential.
* Office Skills,
* Technology / product development background and engagement.
* Document development skills ideally HotDocs but may consider other packages.
* Must have excellent document production and IT skills and a high level of expertise in and understanding of Microsoft Word.
* Knowledge of the wider legal IT and tech market.
* Knowledge of and experience of working with extranets an advantage, in particular HighQ.
* Solid analytical skills - in concept, design, development, and deployment.

Equal Opportunities

At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. We're diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive. For further information about CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please view the Diversity & Inclusion pages on our website.

Please apply online or contact a member of the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions. For information regarding our competitive range of benefits please visit our Rewards & Benefits page on our website.

Please note that CMS have a preferred agency panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the point of instruction will be accepted.

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