Senior Knowledge Lawyer

As a Senior Knowledge Lawyer, you'll play a crucial role in supporting our legal teams and sector groups. Your responsibilities will include developing innovative work practices and facilitating the capture and sharing of knowledge. This is a varied role where you'll work closely with our Commercial Contracts, Digital, IP, Innovation and Legal Tech teams.,

• You'll drive and implement the knowledge strategy to efficiently capture and retrieve know-how.


• You'll be instrumental in driving a cultural change within the firm to capture and harness knowledge for future work.


• You'll embrace new technology and adopt efficiencies across the practice to 'work-smarter' by cutting down time to retrieve information by making it more readily available.


• You'll aid client development through producing publications, bespoke client training and proactively considering other innovative ways to use know-how to add value to client relationships.


• You'll work collaboratively with L&D to provide legal training to fee earners across the firm.


• You'll also provide individual lawyer support to give second opinions and identify case law.


• You'll work closely with the Innovation team to identify new technologies and efficiencies for the firm.


This is a great opportunity for either an experienced Knowledge Lawyer to join the team, or for someone looking to start their journey as a Knowledge Lawyer. You'll be supported by the Head of Knowledge and wider team to develop your skills and experience as a knowledge lawyer. You'll be encouraged to forge your own path at Walker Morris and develop your career as a Senior Knowledge Lawyer.

We offer hybrid and flexible working arrangements and can consider this role on either a part-time or full-time basis.

Are you an experienced commercial lawyer looking for something different? Would you like to step away from client-facing responsibilities and have the autonomy to work flexibly?,
• A qualified solicitor who is registered with the Law Society of England and Wales, with at least 5-years PQE.


• Experience working with legal innovation and legal technology.


• Ability to deliver engaging training sessions, and proactively support lawyers across the firm.


• A proven track record of ensuring the provision of a high standard of client service with good file and case management.


• The ability to demonstrate a sound commercial awareness and an understanding of clients' businesses.
  
  When you're looking for a job, we know it's about more than just the role. That's why we provide the support you need to develop and grow your career. We've hybrid and flexible working, so you can make work and life work together for you. Walker Morris is a top 100 commercial law firm where you don't have to fit a mould, so you can bring your full self to work and our commitment to a meaningful work life balance means you can take your full-self home again too!
  
  Hybrid working - split your time between home and our office, with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week.


• Annual Leave - minimum of 25 days per year, increasing to 31 days with length of service. Also - buy/sell holidays up to 5 days per year.


• Bonus Scheme - our annual bonus scheme recognises outstanding contributions to the firm and our ambitions. All colleagues are eligible subject to meeting the criteria of the scheme.


• Pension - saving for retirement? Let us do the hard work for you. We auto-enrol all eligible colleagues into a workplace pension and we contribute a minimum of 5% of annual salary.


• Life Assurance - 4x your annual salary in the event of a death in service.


At Walker Morris we are working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply.
Type of Working: Hybrid