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What you’re testing
Whether they can translate practice-group reality into a technical roadmap — and whether partners will actually listen to them.
Questions to ask
- 1Walk us through a time you took a vague complaint from attorneys (“this tool doesn't work for us”) and turned it into a concrete requirement an engineering team could build against.
- 2How would you decide which practice group's AI request gets built first when three group leaders all say theirs is urgent?
- 3What's an AI use case that sounds compelling to partners but that you would push back on? Why?
- 4How do you keep credibility with partners while telling them their favorite idea won't work?
- 5Describe how you'd run a network of practice group AI champions. What do they owe you, and what do you owe them?
Strong answer
Gives real examples of translating between attorneys and technologists; has a prioritization framework that references matter economics, not just enthusiasm; comfortable saying no to partners with reasons they respect.
Red flag
Talks only about tools, not workflows; no experience presenting to or pushing back on partners; treats the champions network as a mailing list rather than a managed team.