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title: 'Legal Engineer at Lawhive'
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# Legal Engineer at Lawhive

- **Company:** Lawhive
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $190k–$270k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lawhive/62a82c7d-128a-4c93-801c-e8886a4479ab

## Job description

## 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 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. You'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. 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 removal defense practice. You'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.

## What You'll Do

Build with Product

- Act 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.
- 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 immigration work (for example, EOIR filings, I-589 and cancellation of removal packages, evidence indexes, country conditions research).
- Build evaluation sets from real matter types and judge output quality as a practitioner would.
- Keep the product current as policy, EOIR practice and agency guidance change, aligning with our Legal Data librarian, maintaining 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, filing turnaround, 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 immigration firms, so the next legal engineer can pick them up.
- Help us decide how this model extends to other immigration practice areas.

## What You'll Bring

- JD and active admission to at least one US state bar.
- 3+ years practicing removal defense, with your own caseload in immigration court: detained or non-detained, master and individual hearings, relief applications and appeals.
- Familiarity with federal court work for immigration clients, such as habeas petitions and mandamus actions.
- A clear view of where immigration 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 high-stakes practice area: what can be automated, what needs attorney review, and how to tell the difference.
- Clear 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.
- 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.

## About Lawhive

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lawhive is an AI-native consumer law firm that combines experienced, regulated lawyers with a proprietary AI operating system to make legal services more accessible, affordable, and transparent for everyday people.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – raised $60M in 2026, with total funding exceeding $100M)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Not individually disclosed in search results (co-founders include a CTO named Jaime V. per LinkedIn, but full team not listed)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Legal Services / Legal Technology (AI-powered consumer law)
- Target customers: B2C and B2B (individuals and businesses needing help with immigration, employment, family, property, conveyancing, divorce, landlord-tenant, and consumer rights)
- Mission statement: “To make legal services accessible to everyone” by combining technology, AI, and a regulated law firm to simplify legal help as easily as opening a bank account.

## Products & Services
- **AI Operating System (Lawrence)**: A proprietary AI “paralegal” that assists lawyers with legal research, document drafting, client intake, case management, and communication – reducing cost and delay.
- **Full-Service Law Firm (SRA-Regulated)**: Lawhive itself is a licensed law firm that delivers end-toend legal support, from initial consultation to case resolution, across multiple practice areas.
- **Consultant Lawyer Platform**: Lawyers can join Lawhive’s network of 300+ consultants and receive a steady stream of pre-qualified, pre-paid clients, AI tools, and full administrative support (marketing, billing, compliance) – allowing them to focus only on billable legal work.
- **Online Client Portal**: Individuals can answer a few questions, get a transparent fixed-fee or hourly quote, and be matched with a dedicated lawyer quickly.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company; last round was Series B in 2026)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $116.2M (per LinkedIn) with Series B of $60M raised in 2026. Also reported over 12,500 satisfied clients, 2,000+ Trustpilot reviews with a 4.5-star rating, and a network of 300+ lawyers.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Mitch Rales (lead Series B), Google Ventures (GV), Balderton Capital, TQ Ventures. Also backed by England footballers Harry Maguire and Reece James.
- **Growth Signals**: 100.7% year-over-year headcount growth (now 201 employees); expanded into the United States and operates across 6 countries (UK, US, Hong Kong, Italy, Sri Lanka, Switzerland); acquired Woodstock Legal Services in early 2026; 20 active job postings as of mid-2026 with a strong focus on engineering, AI, and legal roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI + Regulation Moat**: Lawhive is both a technology platform and an SRA-regulated law firm – a combination that is difficult for pure-play legal tech startups or traditional law firms to replicate.
- **Lawyer-Friendly Model**: Consultant lawyers get pre-paid clients, full admin support, and AI tools, enabling them to earn more without non-billable overhead. This attracts top legal talent.
- **Transparent Pricing**: Fixed-fee and hourly pricing with no surprises – a key differentiator in a traditionally opaque industry.
- **Strong Investor Backing**: Backed by top-tier VCs (GV, Balderton, TQ) and an iconic US industrialist (Mitch Rales), providing both financial stability and strategic credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **US Expansion**: With a Managing Director for North America and a growing US presence, Lawhive is aggressively scaling into the American consumer legal market.
- **AI Platform Development**: Continued investment in “Lawrence” to automate more legal workflows and improve lawyer productivity.
- **Network Growth**: Increasing the number of consultant lawyers (currently 300+) to serve more clients across more practice areas.
- **Geographic & Practice Area Expansion**: Operating in 6 countries and adding new legal domains (e.g., immigration, family, property) to capture broader demand.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values-driven organization emphasizing *bias to action*, *obsession with customers*, *communication first*, and *attention to detail*. The team is described as moving fast, thinking deeply, and pushing boundaries.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Lawhive’s consultant lawyers work from anywhere; corporate roles (engineering, product, sales) appear to be based in London with some remote flexibility (many job postings do not specify fully remote, but the culture page highlights “work from anywhere” for lawyers).
- **Notable Perks & Environment**: Engineers and product people get to work on cutting-edge AI applied to a massive, underserved market (consumer law). The company offers the chance to “transform access to the law” alongside world-class investors and a high-growth environment with 100%+ headcount growth. Roles span legal, AI/engineering, product, operations, and sales – all contributing directly to mission impact.

## Sources
1. [lawhive.co.uk/careers](https://lawhive.co.uk/careers)
2. [lawhive.co.uk](https://lawhive.co.uk/)
3. [lawhive.co.uk/about-us](https://lawhive.co.uk/about-us)
4. [uk.linkedin.com/company/joinlawhive](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/joinlawhive)
5. [lawhive.co.uk/work-with-us](https://lawhive.co.uk/work-with-us)

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