Corporate Knowledge Lawyer

Are you an experienced Corporate Lawyer looking for a new challenge? We are recruiting for a Corporate Knowledge Lawyer to drive and support knowledge, training, and skills development for our Corporate Team. This newly created role is offered on a part-time basis with flexible and hybrid working. It's an opportunity for you to make a real difference. You'll see the impact of your work and the value you're adding. You'll bring your own ideas and shape this offering to make it your own. Our people are at the heart of our 3-year strategy. You'll help guide and develop our Corporate Lawyers by offering career support, tailored development plans, and regular feedback. It's a varied role where you'll be instrumental in delivering the firm's knowledge strategy and driving business development initiatives. You'll capture technical legal knowledge and disseminate it to fee earners and clients. What you'll be doing as a Corporate Knowledge Lawyer: Knowledge and information

• Drive and implement the knowledge strategy to efficiently capture and retrieve know-how. This will involve embracing new technologies and helping to drive cultural change within the Firm to capture and harness knowledge for future work.
• Embrace new technology and adopt efficiencies across the practice to "work smarter". To cut down the time to retrieve information and make it more readily available.
• Monitor and keep abreast of relevant legal and regulatory developments, ensuring updates are reflected within the Team's precedent bank (whether through amendment or drafting new documents).
Training
• Collaborate with Partners and L&D to identify and deliver effective training on black-letter law and market practice.
• Identify, develop and deliver legal training programmes within the Team, including training programmes for specific populations such as trainees (and other new starters) and junior lawyers.
• Prepare and support delivery of client training and seminars.
• Provide individual support for fee earners advising clients, eg giving second opinions, identifying case law.
• Support the trialling of new products which will help with training and learning, such as Lexis+ AI, Practical Law's AI offering etc.
Fee earner development
• Design and implement training plans for fee earners at all levels (new starters, trainees, NQ's, Senior Associates, Directors) to enhance individual and Team performance.
• Engage with fee earners to understand their career goals, interests and development needs, and create tailored development plans. Collaborate with Partners to align work allocations with these plans whenever possible.
• Improve the feedback loop by working closely with junior team members to review documents and mark-ups, embedding a culture of continuous development.
• Work with the Partners to develop and embed regular feedback to fee earners at all levels to develop skills and experience.
Business development
• Work with Marketing & Business Development (M&BD) and Corporate Partners to produce publications to aid client/practice development.
• Understand the M&BD strategy and support M&BD with content-based marketing plans, including for key accounts, growth targets, and acquiring targets. This will involve working with a sector focus and on our growth service lines.
• Produce client alerts, assist M&BD with client facing "value add" proposition eg bespoke client training, proactively consider other innovative ways of using know-how to add value to client relationships.
• Proactively consider opportunities for both internal alerts and client alerts which deliver the M&BD strategy and L&D strategy.
  
  Be a fully qualified solicitor who is registered with the SRA of England and Wales.
• 4+ years PQE as a Corporate lawyer, with recent M&A experience.
• Proven track record of providing a high standard of client service, to include good file and financial management and the ability to meet client expectations and standards.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to demonstrate a sound commercial awareness and an understanding of clients' businesses.
• Ability to present training sessions in an engaging way.
• Demonstrable experience of sound judgment which avoids conflict with professional or regulatory requirements, and achieves commercial solutions for clients and the Firm.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both written and oral) and the ability to communicate professionally and effectively at all times, and to build relationships with clients and colleagues at all levels.
• Be a supportive, dependable and approachable member of the team who can work with people at all levels in the Firm and contribute to the effectiveness of the team and Firm as a whole.
• Be a dynamic, ambitious and enthusiastic individual who is proactive and constantly striving to improve and develop themselves, their team/department and the Firm.
  
  Salary reflective of your experience.
• Part time hours available.
• Earn up to 10% of your salary with our annual bonus scheme.
• Minimum of 25 days (FTE) annual leave plus Bank Holidays per year increasing to 31 days with length of service, with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday per year.
• Auto enrolled into the workplace pension scheme, and we'll contribute a minimum of 5% of your salary.
• 4x your annual salary in the event of a death in service.
• Hybrid and flexible working with 40-60% of your time spent in the office. Please speak to the recruitment team to discuss your flexible working preferences.
• Access to BUPA with no excess or compulsory payments.
Company Values Our shared values represent our culture and the things that are important to us. They define who we are as a Firm, as an employer and what we expect of our people. They provide direction and purpose by influencing the decisions that we make and the actions that we take. It's really important that all candidates and employees demonstrate these values in their day-to-day activities:
• Embrace the fact everyone is different and unique.
• You can be serious without wearing a suit.
• Never lose sight of the bigger picture.
• Two heads are better than one.
• Take the bull by the horns.
• We win & lose together.
Walker Morris is committed to being an inclusive employer. Our aim is to ensure our workforce represents our diverse society. We recognise that everyone brings their own unique capabilities and experiences to their work. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental status, race, religion or ethnicity. We take great pride in being a Disability Confident Employer. If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to ask. to find out more about our diversity and inclusion work. Type of Working: Hybrid