Jay Smith
Legal Operations Expert - Legal Technology
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJay 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 freeCodeCampBA Economics, BA Economics at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (16)
javascript8
html8
github-desktop7
css7
open-source6
github6
svelte5
web-development4
vanilla-javascript3
laravel2
heroku2
laravel-framework2
crm1
tailwindcss1
sveltekit1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thisisthejay/Programming-for-Lawyers
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
An introduction to programming for lawyers
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 5 months
lawyers
thisisthejay/BE-School
Jul 2018 - Dec 2020
BE School Website
Contributions:2 PRs, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
school-website
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