Knowledge Development Lawyer

4 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Forsters LLP Full time

Forsters LLP is a leading Central London-based law firm that delivers exceptional legal results to its clients in the real estate and private wealth sectors. We believe our engaged and friendly manner, combined with the delivery of concise, clear, and commercially led advice, helps build long-lasting relationships with our clients.

Job Title

Knowledge Development Lawyer

Department

Non-Contentious Construction

Job Summary

We are seeking a Knowledge Development Lawyer to join our renowned Construction department. This is a new permanent and part-time position for someone who can commit to 3 or 4 days a week. The ideal candidate must have experience in non-contentious construction matters, ideally from another top-tier firm.

Main Duties and Responsibilities
  • Knowledge Resources and Precedents
    • Monitor current law, best practices, and market trends, and create engaging knowledge materials to assist the Construction group in providing exceptional outcomes for clients.
    • Establish and manage a practice group Knowledge Hub platform, developing materials that are focused, relevant, and stored in a methodical and consistent way to ensure they are easily accessible and shared with other practice groups as relevant.
    • Assist fee earners with technical legal and matter management queries, ensuring that the resulting know-how is captured and shared across the group.
    • Draft and update checklists and other resources designed to mitigate risk and establish consistent processes and practices across the group.
  • Legal Training
    • Chair monthly know-how meetings for the group, establishing agenda, liaising with speakers, and contributing as necessary.
    • Design and deliver structured training programs tailored to different levels of qualification (and for support staff where relevant) to support their continuing professional development and ensure that we are applying consistently high standards.
    • Identify and work with appropriate internal and external speakers for specialist training delivery, including liaising with other legal groups to deliver appropriate training as well as with professional services firms to ensure our fee earners have a deep understanding of the markets in which our clients operate and promote relationship building.
  • Legal Tech
    • Proactively monitor legal technology in the market, evaluating benefits as against cost, seeking out potential use cases to achieve efficiencies within the non-contentious Construction group, and feeding back to the Head of Knowledge and relevant partners.
  • Client and Business Development
    • Liaise with the Business Development and Marketing team in relation to the production of high-quality knowledge-focused website and social media content of relevance to our clients.
    • Where required, liaise with the Business Development and Marketing team on the preparation of client materials and directory submissions.
  • Firmwide Knowledge Sharing and Managing Risk
    • Work together with the Head of Knowledge and other Knowledge Development Lawyers within the firm to ensure a consistent approach is taken across practice areas.
    • Liaise with Risk and Compliance in relation to SRA requirements and other matters requiring escalation/firmwide policy review.
    • Assist with firmwide knowledge and innovation projects as required.
    • Support diversity and inclusion, CSR, and pro bono activities.
  • Other
    • Collect regular feedback on the knowledge function to inform future projects.
    • Assist with the onboarding of new joiners and trainees and in the graduate recruitment process as required.
    • Structure time and priorities in accordance with the Construction group's business plan and provide input into it.
    • Have a clear understanding of how a law firm operates as a business.
    • Be focused on delivering high-quality service to colleagues and clients alike.
    • Have strong problem-solving, project management, risk management, and mitigation skills.
    • Be flexible regarding time and duties.

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