Litigation PSL/Knowledge Lawyer
This firm is seeking a qualified and experienced Litigation PSL/Knowledge Lawyer to join their Knowledge Team. As a Knowledge Lawyer, you will be responsible for providing high-level support to the company's lawyers with technical legal queries and building the company's knowledge resources, including precedents and know-how. This role requires a strong litigation background, with particular expertise or interest in regulatory/public administrative law being ideal.
Why is this an attractive role?
1. Fantastic variety of work and topics
2. Collaborative and centralised team
3. Work alongside skilled lawyers
4. Strong team configuration
5. Work/life balance
Are you...
Adaptable, confident, smart, resourceful?
Have you....
An ability to deal with random queries, strong interpersonal and communication skills, an ability to exercise sound judgement and decision-making with an ability to push through projects and a willingness to work co-operatively as part of a team and contribute to the smooth running of the department?
Can you offer....
A high level of accuracy and attention to detail with strong documentation and research skills?
Key Responsibilities
6. Managing the processes around know-how, precedents and standard forms: drafting, updating, managing and disseminating documents, setting up or dealing with online document systems.
7. Researching and analysing new law and practice, researching points of law or directing fee earners to appropriate sources.
8. Keeping fee earners abreast of new points of law and current market developments and in conjunction with the knowledge centre answering queries relating to maintained information, new areas of law, and complex areas of law/specialisms.
9. Training and organising internal lectures or seminars for trainees, interns, fee earners or firm-wide aimed at briefing the teams on changes to law, practice and precedents.
10. Contributing as required to the production of articles, briefings, newsletters or other materials for circulation to clients or to be published in selected journals.