Stephanie Goutos serves as Littler’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, leading the firm’s enterprise AI strategy, governance, and responsible AI adoption across the firm’s global platform. She partners with firm leadership, attorneys, business professionals, and clients to deploy AI that elevates legal service delivery, strengthens operational performance, and enables scalable, high-quality work across every practice and business function.
Stephanie is one of the few executives in the legal industry who pairs hands-on class action litigation experience with proven enterprise AI governance and deployment at scale. A former class action litigator with nearly 15 years of employment law experience, she approaches AI strategy with a practitioner's command of legal risk, client service, professional responsibility, and the operational realities of legal practice. Her work focuses on translating emerging technologies into governed, defensible, and commercially valuable applications for attorneys, clients, and business teams.
Before joining Littler, Stephanie served as Head of Employment Practice Innovation at a leading technology-focused law firm representing thousands of startups and venture capital firms, where she built the automation infrastructure supporting the firm’s employment practice, led strategic employment and innovation initiatives, and played a leading role in firmwide AI deployment and adoption.
Stephanie also held senior innovation and knowledge management roles at a national law firm of more than 900 attorneys, where she spearheaded enterprise technology initiatives, built scalable legal technology solutions, and was instrumental in building out the firm’s Innovation & KM department. Earlier in her career, as lead knowledge management attorney, she supported the development and expansion of the firm’s Class Actions and Complex Litigation Practice Group.
Stephanie’s background as a litigator further informs her leadership in AI and legal technology. She represented employers in complex class, collective, and multiparty litigation involving federal and state wage and hour claims, employee classification, off the clock work, regular rate calculations, minimum wage and overtime claims, Fair Credit Reporting Act matters, and discrimination claims. She handled matters across multiple jurisdictions, including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Maryland.
Before entering private practice, Stephanie served as counsel to the New York State Deputy Commissioner of Higher Education, advising on educational policy, legislative drafting, and the interpretation of newly enacted statutes — early experience navigating regulatory complexity that continues to inform how she thinks about AI governance today.
Stephanie is widely recognized for her work in AI, legal innovation, and responsible technology adoption. She regularly writes, speaks, and advises on AI governance, generative AI, legal ethics, knowledge management, and the evolution of legal service delivery. She is the founder and author of Stephanie’s Weekly AI Bites, a newsletter on AI developments and their implications for employers and the legal industry. Her work has appeared in leading legal publications and industry forums, and she is frequently invited to speak on how legal organizations can adopt AI responsibly while maintaining professional judgment, client trust, and institutional accountability.