Knowledge and Innovation Placement

London Legal Placement

Our industrial legal placement for second year LLB students offers the opportunity to spend your third academic year in our London office, gaining practical experience at the firm.

We are looking for
three
Placement Students to sit in our Knowledge and Innovation teams, located out of the London office.

Position overview

• These roles sit across our Knowledge and Innovation teams, located out of the London office. They present a rare and exciting opportunity to work "behind-the-scenes" of a law firm, and get involved in a variety of knowledge and technology projects.
• These roles will have a dual focus, as outlined below:

Legal Knowledge Focus

• Three/four days a week, these role will support one of the following Legal Departments:
• Real Estate (which also includes construction and planning groups)
• Litigation & Investigations (which also includes employment and international arbitration)
• Corporate & Finance (which also includes Technology and Commercial, and Tax groups)
• Under the supervision of the Lead Knowledge Counsel for that department, these roles will provide knowledge-related support across a broad range of legal areas within that department. The support will range from researching changes in the law, or summarising new cases. It will include helping to answer queries from our lawyers, and facilitate legal training to lawyers and trainees.

Legal Technology Focus

• Approximately one day a week, these roles will spend time in our Knowledge Solutions and Innovation teams. They will be supervised by the Senior Legal Knowledge and Technology Advisor and will become involved in a range of firmwide legal technology projects (including Generative AI).

What's in it for you?

• The successful candidates will work alongside qualified lawyers, legal technologists/data architects, skilled project managers and legal researchers, and have the opportunity to develop a multidisciplinary skillset.
• They will develop vital skills in both the practical application of law, and also the practical utilization of legal technology in a large, international law firm.

Responsibilities
Your Legal Knowledge responsibilities will include:

• Helping keep lawyers and their clients up-to-date on procedural, legal and market developments within your allocated Legal Department;
• Creating and amending intranet pages and generally assisting with maintaining know-how resources/collections;
• Helping run internal legal training programmes and knowledge sessions:
• Assisting with the creation of new templates, practice notes and standard advice, and updating that content to reflect legal, procedural and market changes;
• Helping to prepare client briefing notes/guides, including assisting with social media processes and conflict checks;
• Undertaking legal research and producing guidance and summaries for lawyers to use;
• Assisting on a range of other knowledge projects on-going in the allocated Legal Department from time to time.

Your Legal Technology Responsibilities Will Include

• Participating in innovation/legal technology trials, including testing and promoting AI products;
• Working alongside lawyers to audit content on our firm's Legal technology systems;
• Actively monitoring lawyer engagement with our systems/processes by collecting usage data and helping to create visualized data reports;
• Testing new legal technology products and providing feedback on functionality;
• Helping maintain legal technology guidance and training resources;
• Providing project admin support as needed to colleagues across the Knowledge and Innovation teams.

Essential Experience And Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required

• In the process of studying a Law (LLB) degree with a year in industry
• Have the right to work in the UK
• Excellent IT skills including Excel and Word
• Strong interest in data, information and knowledge management
• Strong interest in legal technology and innovation
• A good team player
• Willingness to learn, with a can-do attitude
• Ability to manage and prioritise numerous work streams at the same time
• Strong communication skills

Travel

These full-time placements require working with a minimum of four days working in the London office per week. For three of the in-office days, you will be collocated within your allocated Legal Department. One day a week, you will be co-located with the Knowledge/Innovation Teams.