SKILL ROADMAP 74 · ADVANCED AND EMERGING PATHS
Legal Tech Professional
Legal workflows → Types of legal tech → Digital skills → Document automation → Responsible AI use → Coding or product skills → Larger projects → Career
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- This roadmap has 8 steps, 3 checkpoints and 3 projects.
- Open the interactive version to tick checkpoints and projects. Your progress is saved in your browser.
1 What this path is
Legal tech professionals build and improve the tools lawyers use, in legal tech companies, innovation teams at firms and legal teams.
2 Who this path may suit
The work involves combining legal knowledge with building tools, testing ideas and solving practical problems.
3 The roadmap, step by step
- Understand legal workflows.
Learn: how legal tasks flow from intake to delivery.
Practise: by mapping one legal task and marking where time is lost. - Learn types of legal tech.
Learn: research tools, contract management, document automation and practice management in general terms.
Practise: by writing a short review of what problem each type solves. - Build digital skills.
Learn: spreadsheets, forms, simple databases and no code tools.
Practise: by building a simple case tracker. - Automate a document.
Learn: templates and conditional logic.
Practise: by building a generator for a legal notice or rent agreement. - Use AI responsibly.
Learn: confidentiality, accuracy and human review when building with AI. Tools and workflows are covered in the AI Legal Hub.
Practise: by writing the review process for a tool you build. - Learn coding or product skills.
Learn: basic Python or JavaScript, or product management.
Practise: with a small working feature. - Build a larger project.
Learn: to solve a real problem for real users.
Practise: by building a website, research tool or tracker. A legal learning website like Jurisence is itself an example of this kind of project. - Enter the field.
Learn: how legal tech companies and innovation teams hire.
Practise: by presenting your projects in a portfolio.
4 Your levels and checkpoints
Beginner level
- Map a legal workflow
Intermediate level
- Build a working automation
Advanced level
- Build and test a larger project with users
Advanced professional level
You lead legal tech projects or products.
These checklists are for honest self assessment. They are not an official certification.
5 Build these projects
- A working legal workflow automation
- A document generator
- A larger legal tech project
6 Internship direction
Legal tech companies and innovation teams. Bring a working project.
7 Portfolio evidence
Projects with screenshots and short explanations.
8 Common mistakes
- Building something lawyers do not need