Data Scientist
Location: Hybrid. Primarily remote, with in-person collaboration once per month in Manchester or Liverpool
Fletchers Group have a fantastic opportunity to join our growing Team.
Overview:
We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our expanding AI team at Fletchers Solicitors. This is a role for someone with a strong analytical and statistical foundation who wants to apply that rigour to building AI systems that operate on complex real-world legal and medical data.
This role sits within a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment where we are rapidly prototyping, iterating, and deploying state-of-the-art AI products for use across Fletchers and the wider legal sector. The team operates as a start-up-style unit within the wider business, reporting directly to the executive team, with a clear mandate to move quickly from idea to production.
You will be responsible for understanding our data domain in depth, working closely with legal and clinical experts to formalise specialist knowledge into measurable system behaviour, and designing the evaluation, experimentation, and modelling approaches that underpin our agentic LLM systems. Our products process complex legal and medical documents, surface insights for legal professionals, and increasingly operate autonomously at scale; your work ensures they do so reliably, measurably, and with the analytical rigour that high-stakes legal output demands. We have ambitious plans to grow the AI team significantly over the next few years as we expand our internal capabilities and commercialise our technology externally.
About Fletchers & the AI Data Science Team:
Fletchers is a rapidly growing consumer law firm specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence, and with a growing practice in family and private client. Fletchers was one of the first consumer law firms to deploy a machine learning tool for legal work (a decision support system for screening incoming cases, launched in 2017) and was one of, or the first, law firm to have a dedicated AI department, which started in August 2023. Since then, we have been experimenting with a broader range of ML techniques, extending those tools already in use, and productionising new ones through our growing data science & engineering teams.
We believe that we are well positioned to leverage Fletchers' unique legal-medical dataset and industry expertise to build AI tools that will shape the future of consumer law. We are well funded through our Private Equity backers, which allows us to invest heavily in the development of sector-specific AI tools that assist, automate, and augment our specialist legal work. Tools we have built range from simple behind-the-scenes custom model inference, to agentic-AI pipelines for 'always on' monitoring, to the core user interface that some of our colleagues work on for 90%+ of their day. We're also commercialising these tools so that other specialist law firms can leverage Fletchers' legal and AI expertise, and have an ambitious agenda for external growth for the next 18 months.
Fletchers is headquartered in the North-West of the UK, with offices across Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Southport, Bolton, Cambridge, Reading, Birmingham, Northampton, and Newcastle. Many colleagues work primarily from home. The existing AI team is distributed across London, Manchester, Liverpool, Cambridge, and Bristol, and we typically meet in person once or twice per month in Manchester.
The Role:
As a Data Scientist within the AI team, you will own the analytical and statistical foundation of our LLM-powered features and agentic pipelines. You will move fluidly between exploring our data domains, scoping new capabilities with the product team and legal stakeholders, eliciting and modelling specialist domain knowledge, designing rigorous evaluation frameworks, and partnering with engineers to ship robust systems into production.
This is a role suited to someone who is technically rigorous, statistically literate, and genuinely curious about both the data and the domain. You will work closely with backend engineers, product stakeholders, and frontend developers across multiple projects, but your distinctive contribution is analytical depth: knowing what to measure, how to measure it, how to interpret it, and what it implies for product and system design.
We are open to candidates ranging from mid to senior level. The scope of responsibilities can flex depending on experience and interests, with clear opportunities for rapid progression and significant professional growth for motivated candidates as the team and product portfolio grow.
Main Responsibilities:
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. We mean it when we say strong candidates don't need to tick every box. Job descriptions are wish lists, not checklists. If the work excites you and you have most of what we're looking for, we'd rather see your application than have you talk yourself out of it. The people who build the best AI teams are rarely the ones who looked perfect on paper; they're the ones who were curious, honest about what they didn't know, and hungry to learn. If that sounds like you, apply.
We want to grow quickly, so reserve the right to close this role early depending on candidate quality and volume.
In return Fletchers offers:
- 35 hours working week
- Bonus scheme (subject to targets being met)
- 35 days holiday a year including bank holidays and Christmas Closure, you also have an option to purchase up to 3 extra days holiday per year, until you long service award the 3 days after your 5th, 7th, and 9th full year of employment
- Pension scheme with tax-efficient salary sacrifice option
- Life Assurance Policy
- Medicash policy to cover some dental, optical and other medical expenses
- Company sick pay
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and IVF schemes
- Flexible, agile working environment with a positive work-life balance
- Varied calendar of funded company social events (check out Fletchers Group on LinkedIn)
- Monthly voucher awards for winning nominees
- A genuinely supportive and friendly culture
- Ongoing training and professional development opportunities
We reserve the right to close this role before the date specified depending on the calibre and volume of candidates.
About Fletchers Group
Fletchers is a fast-growing, dynamic law firm specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence law, with outstanding rankings in both The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners. Following several strategic acquisitions, weve evolved into the Fletchers Group, with ambitious plans for continued growth and innovation.
We aspire to be the best place to work in the legal sector.
Our workplace culture is inclusive, informal, and supportive, with a strong focus on colleague wellbeing and happiness. We are proud to offer some of the best hybrid and flexible working arrangements in the industry because we understand that balance drives performance.
At Fletchers, we also value connection and collaboration. We create exciting opportunities for teams to come together and thrive. Whether youre starting your career or aiming for leadership, youll find a clear path to progress and development here from apprenticeships and professional qualifications to senior roles and Partnership.
We seek out a broad range of challenging, high-quality legal work, enabling our people to build meaningful and progressive careers. And we dont just talk about development we invest in it, with a significant proportion of our colleagues working towards relevant qualifications at any given time.
We reward those who help build our success and live our values. Our benefits package is designed to grow with you, offering real opportunities to share in our long-term strength. Our base pay and bonus structure is built to recognise and reward high performance.
Join us and be part of a law firm thats not only growing, but redefining what it means to work in legal services.
Fletchers Group is an inclusive employer with a diverse workforce: we welcome applications from any and all backgrounds. Were committed to providing a culture and environment where everyone can thrive, understanding and celebrating that no colleague is the same. Were proud of our work on the Disability Confident scheme, signed up to BITC's Race at Work charter, and working towards Henpicked's Menopause and Menstrual Friendly accreditations.
