Professional Support Lawyer

1 week ago

Reading, United Kingdom Boyes Turner Full time

Role Description


Our Employment Team is recognised for its practical, commercially-focused support for clients across a range of sectors. We are looking for a talented individual to join our team in a dual Professional Support Lawyer (PSL) and Training role.


This is an excellent opportunity to blend technical legal expertise with business development and client engagement. You will play a pivotal role in maintaining and advancing our team’s knowledge base, ensuring our clients and colleagues benefit from cutting-edge advice and training in employment law.


If you have a passion for delivering high-quality legal services, enjoy building relationships, and want to be part of a forward-thinking team, we’d love to hear from you.


Work type:


Professional Support Lawyer:


  • Manage and maintain the Employment Team Knowledge Library and Precedents
  • Stay up to date with legal developments and best practices, ensuring the team’s knowledge library and documents are current and comprehensive
  • Regularly review the need for new or updated documents
  • Identify gaps in the team’s precedents, propose new ones as needed, and take the lead in creating them
  • Monitor legal developments in employment law and update and train the team regularly
  • Co-ordinate internal team training and organise training sessions with external providers
  • Conduct legal research as required​


Training:


  • Co-ordinate client training, devise training courses and produce training materials for bespoke client training including notes for presenters on employment law matters
  • Present training for clients and targets and devise and conduct public training courses as required
  • In conjunction with the Partners, develop sales strategy for training products for the Employment Team
  • Actively identify opportunities to sell training products and proactively anticipate and devise appropriate new training courses based on new legislation/ opportunities
  • In conjunction with the Partners, co-ordinate the webinar program and prepare and host webinars/ podcasts and materials, including presenting webinars on employment law issues
  • Prepare and co-ordinate online newsletters for the Employment Team
  • Prepare quarterly update as required for clients and prospects on employment law
  • Horizon scan and update team on matters relevant to sectors in which clients operate


Experience/ Attributes required:


  • Ability to work unsupervised
  • Supports strategic direction of the firm
  • Excellent business development and marketing skills
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Confident and excellent presentation skills
  • Ability to explain complex matters clearly and credibly to external stakeholders
  • Be able to research and apply knowledge to work in progress
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills


Responsibilities & tasks:


  • To maintain and develop business relationships with clients
  • To promote the team’s services and identify opportunities to sell these and training products
  • To keep up to date with current literature, publications and circulars and bring to the attention of other members of your team relevant news and developments
  • Ensure file management, and administration are kept up to date
  • To work effectively on your own and in a team
  • To work in excess of normal working hours where it proves necessary, in the interests of the Firm or those of our clients
  • Liaise with and develop relationships with external consultants and professional experts in accordance with the team’s requirements
  • Meet with and train clients including leadership teams, HR, manager, in house legal teams and client staff – at the firm’s offices or their offices and/or remotely
  • Craft training materials and PSL documents for the Employment Team
  • Keep up to date with your own team’s and the firm’s developments and advise clients/contacts accordingly wherever appropriate to promote other practice teams in the firm
  • Wherever possible assist with practice development events organised by the team and the firm


Benefits:


  • 25 days holiday
  • Pension scheme
  • Life Assurance 5 x final salary
  • Private medical insurance
  • Flexible Hybrid working
  • An additional days holiday for your birthday
  • A weekly wellbeing hour
  • 8 hour per annum charity work
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Bring your dog to work
  • Social committee events
  • Season ticket travel loan
  • Eligible to purchase an additional five days holiday


Team structure:


  • 3 x Partners
  • 1 x Head of Immigration
  • 2 x Senior Associate Solicitors
  • 1 x Associate Solicitor
  • 3 x Solicitor
  • 1 x Chartered legal executive
  • 2 x Paralegals
  • 4 x Secretaries

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