Summary
Jay Smith is a legal operations and legal technology expert with eight years of experience applying engineering thinking to complex legal problems. Currently at Remote, he designs and scales legal tech and knowledge systems that accelerate global teams, with hands-on experience in document automation, AI workflows, CLM implementation, and data-driven decision making. He founded SenseCheck to bring practical, impact-focused solutions to market and has led operations and engineering functions across law firms and in-house roles. Trained as a lawyer and certified in full-stack web development, Jay uniquely blends legal domain expertise with software development skills to build scalable, auditable tools. He’s comfortable translating between lawyers, analysts, and developers and is known for prioritising solutions that actually change how legal teams work rather than tech for its own sake. Based in Bristol, he combines commercial legal experience with a maker’s mindset to deliver measurable operational improvements.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
BA Economics, BA Economics at The University of Sheffield