Don’t Call Me a Lawyer—I am a “Legal Engineer”
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“Traditionally, lawyers write memos and make oral arguments,” Burt says. “As legal engineers, our job is not to write memos. Our job is to translate the legal burden, in particular for Immuta the legal burden on data (legal regulations or internal policies related to the use of that data), into technology. It’s about turning our legal expertise into software.”
Immuta’s small team of legal engineers helps customers to translate their piles of legal memos into automated data policies as well as working on new product features. The morning I spoke to Burt, for example, he was thinking about creating a customer questionnaire on HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), the act that governs access to healthcare data in the U.S., to automatically generate data policy rules in Immuta.
More generally, the role of the legal engineer is to interface between legal and technology professionals in order to build software to interpret, enforce, or prove compliance with the law.
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