ADVANCED DELIVERY TEAM LAWYER (2-5 YEARS PQE)

Location: Edinburgh or London
Contract Type: Permanent
Brief
If you are enthusiastic about legal innovation and technology and are excited about the opportunity to work in a dynamic and forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you.
We are looking to recruit a junior lawyer (2 year PQE up to 5 years PQE) to join our Advanced Delivery Team to sell and deliver technology-led legal services to clients across a range of sectors, including financial services, energy, construction, and infrastructure.
This is an exciting role which offers the successful candidate the opportunity to develop 21st century lawyer skills, work with cutting edge technology, and collaborate across our UK and international offices in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver exciting, technology-led projects for some of the Firm’s most important clients.
Who will you be working with?
You will join our Advanced Delivery Team that sits in our global Finance & Projects Group (the “F&P ADT”).
Leveraging data and technology is at the heart of Pinsent Masons’ strategy and the Finance & Projects Group has invested significantly in the development of technology-led services for clients. These services deploy people, process, and technology to deliver “new law” services to clients. Our Advanced Delivery proposition sits at the heart of these services.
The F&P ADT consists of a partner, senior associate, associate, and trainee who are in our London and Edinburgh offices. You will also work with Advanced Delivery Team colleagues in our other practice groups, the F&P Product and Solutions Delivery Manager, and a broad range of colleagues in our Technology Services team.

The F&P ADT is, primarily, a client facing team. The work of the F&P ADT is organised around three key pillars:

• Sophisticated Solutions: Developing bespoke solutions for client projects that leverage our technology, data, and design capabilities.
• Enhanced Delivery: Re-designing how our lawyer and client teams deliver ongoing legal services through the sophisticated deployment of technology and processes.
• Thought Leadership: Speaking at conferences, delivering client training and publishing articles and commentary on innovative topics.

Our Advanced Delivery Team also play a key role in building out the Firm’s strategic priority areas including our mass claims & remediations offering to financial services clients.

Some recent projects include:

• Designing, developing, and deploying a bespoke, end to end, PPI remediation solution for an international insurer.
• Designing, developing, and deploying a bespoke document automation application for an international development bank.
• Designing, developing, and deploying a contract negotiation database for an international energy client.
• Delivering innovation training to a range of financial services and projects clients.
• Hosting an innovation roundtable for senior in-house lawyers.

Your Key Responsibilities

You will support senior Advanced Delivery Team members and our expert lawyer teams across the F&P Group by working together to deploy innovative, technology-led client solutions that use a transformative combination of people, data, and technology.

• Identifying Opportunities: You will help to identify and evaluate new opportunities to deploy technology-led solutions for our clients, collaborating closely with client relationship teams and business development and bids colleagues. This includes:

o Supporting in the preparation of bids and proposals for technology-led solutions.
o Developing resources and materials to support client discussions on technology-led solutions.

o Participating in client pitches, bids, and presentations on technology-led solutions.

• Developing & Deploying Innovative Technology Solutions: You will support on the scoping, development, testing and deployment of technology-led solutions across a wide range of client projects. This will include: o Taking part in problem finding and scoping workshops.

o Thinking creatively about how technology can be deployed on a client project.
o Helping to scope, map and price technology-led solutions.
o Helping to develop and test technology solutions.

o Deploying technology solutions on client projects

• Supporting Our Strategy: You will support the F&P ADT in a wide range of other innovative activities that advance the Firm’s strategy such as: o Delivering internal and client training on legal technology and innovation topics.o Supporting our R&D team on the piloting and roll out of innovative technology platforms and capabilities.o Presenting to vacation scheme students and trainees on innovation topics.o Attending industry events and conferences to stay up to date with the latest legal innovation and technology trends and network with likeminded clients and other industry participants.o Developing a strong and extensive internal network to help advance the strategy of the F&P ADT.

What skills will you develop?

• Technical Legal Knowledge: As the F&P ADT supports clients across a range of sectors and across a range of legal practice areas, you will be exposed to a range of different legal areas from banking, funds and pensions to financial regulation and renewable energy.
• Technology Expertise: You will develop an expert understanding of how different technologies can support and enhance the delivery of legal services.
• 21st Century Lawyer Skills: The skills that a lawyer needs are rapidly evolving. You will develop and deploy the commercial and creative skills of a 21st century lawyer including: o End-to-end product and solution development.

o Project and stakeholder management.
o Problem solving and design thinking.
o Interrogating and documenting complex processes using a variety of methodologies.
o Data-led decision making.
o The ability to work effectively with and communicate with a wide range of different skill sets and teams.
o How to scope, price and build business cases for technology-led legal services
o How to confidently pitch and present new legal technology solutions.
What Experience and Skills Do You Need to Apply for this Role?

The successful candidate will:

• Have experience in a commercial law firm. Previous experience working with financial institutions or construction/infrastructure clients would be advantageous (but not essential).
• Have previous experience of working with, or a keen interest in, legal technology and innovation.
• Be a collaborator, able to forge strong working relationships with colleagues of different specialisms in an agile environment.
• Possess strong technical and analytical skills.
• Be able to creatively apply legal and technical knowledge to innovative solutions and opportunities.
• Possess persuasive communication and people management skills. Pitching and presenting to clients and internal stakeholders, as well as business development responsibilities, will be an essential component of the role.
• Have competent project management and prioritisation skills to ensure delivery of projects.
• Possess strong drafting and oral presentation skills.
• Be confident working in multidisciplinary teams, communicating effectively with, amongst others, lawyers, client teams, project managers, business analysts, developers, CX/UX teams, and solutions architects.

The role would be suited to a candidate who:

• Is creative – this role involves developing innovative solutions for the delivery of legal services. Flexibility and a willingness to learn and develop “non-traditional” lawyer skills is essential.
• Bring a commercial mindset to the delivery of legal services
• Enjoys networking and business development opportunities and can balance these activities alongside side their day-to-day responsibilities.
• Is highly collaborative and able to work in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Is an effective stakeholder manager.
• Can work independently when required – any candidate will be required to work with colleagues across our London, Edinburgh, and wider offices.
• Is comfortable with rapid change and becoming conversant in new propositions.
• Is open to occasional travel, especially between Scotland and London.
• Has a passion for doing things differently.
• Enjoys upskilling on different areas of legal practice

No prior experience of legal technology, or any specialist technology skills, are required. Full training will be provided on all aspects of technology.
About the Firm
Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,800 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.
The firm has significant multinational credentials in the financial services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds, corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, construction, projects, pensions, property, planning and environmental, procurement, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technology and tax advice.
We champion change and promote progress to make business work better for people. Pinsent Masons has embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which its people can flourish. We operate an agile working scheme, which offers our employees flexibility in terms of where, and how, they work.
We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example, the firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology and project management solutions, operates a hub of freelance lawyers, called Vario, and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy, Brook Graham. Put simply, we offer a range of professional disciplines to our clients, enabled by our people, process and technology.

What will we offer you?

• We are a market leading, dynamic and growing global team who work together to produce outstanding results for our clients.
• We invest in our team and have a first-class training and career development programme, regular 121s, career discussions and annual appraisals. Our training reflects our position as a market leader in communications and sourcing. Our training will assist you to develop as a specialist with valuable sector knowledge and the ability to deliver “best of breed” services.
• Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.

Awards
We’re being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business, the FT’s most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years), winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters’ leading legal brand in their UK index.
We have been recognised as by Stonewall as a Top Global Employer. Recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBT+ inclusion. Pinsent Masons is recognised as a ‘Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023’ for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department for Work & Pensions and we were the first law firm to sign up to the global Valuable 500.
Please click here to view full list of our global awards and nominations - www.pinsentmasons.com/accolades.
Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Johenn Choi who can discuss the role and requirements.
As an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.
Contact details:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johenn-choi
Johenn.Choi@pinsentmasons.com

• Is creative – this role involves developing innovative solutions for the delivery of legal services. Flexibility and a willingness to learn and develop “non-traditional” lawyer skills is essential.
• Bring a commercial mindset to the delivery of legal services
• Enjoys networking and business development opportunities and can balance these activities alongside side their day-to-day responsibilities.
• Is highly collaborative and able to work in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Is an effective stakeholder manager.
• Can work independently when required – any candidate will be required to work with colleagues across our London, Edinburgh, and wider offices.
• Is comfortable with rapid change and becoming conversant in new propositions.
• Is open to occasional travel, especially between Scotland and London.
• Has a passion for doing things differently.
• Enjoys upskilling on different areas of legal practic