We are recruiting for a Knowledge Lawyer to join our Banking & Lender Services Group. This is a fully flexible working opportunity, offered on a full or part-time basis and would best suit a qualified lawyer already in a similar role or looking to branch into this space from a fee earning background.

YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• You must be a Qualified Solicitor, with at least 5 years’ PQE
• Experience in financial services disputes and/or investigations is preferable, though not essential
• Strong legal drafting skills and attention to detail
• Ability to digest, analyse and succinctly communicate large amounts of legal and industry information to both internal and external clients
• Ability to work effectively independently and to work well as part of a team
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including strong presentation skills
• Proactive and self-motivated with a strong client focused approach. You will work alongside a small number of other knowledge lawyers and will be responsible for identifying workstreams and opportunities to support the business. It is expected that you will be able to work with a large degree of autonomy
• Awareness and familiarity with different tools available to support delivery of projects and matters

You will sit within the Banking & Lender Services Group (BLSG) and primarily provide support to the Financial Services Disputes & Investigations Team. Day to day you can expect to be involved with:

• Creating and maintaining precedents, as well as directing fee earners to external resources, which you will collate and annotate
• Creating and delivering internal training to our fee earners. This will include trainee programmes, training for junior lawyers, as well as regular practice area and market updates
• Creating and, where appropriate, delivering training to clients. Client facing training will involve the delivery of virtual training, the preparation of written updates where necessary and the provision of in-person training, which may require travel (and include presenting at events tailored for specific clients and conferences with audiences including a wide selection of invitees)
• Keeping up to date with legal developments and notifying fee earners of the impact of these on their practice, as well as ensuring that any impacts are dealt with in precedents, and practice notes
• Dealing with complex legal queries from fee earners
• Ensuring that all relevant materials created by you and the fee earners are captured, up to date, monitored and included in TLT’s internal knowledge database and promoting the use of this with fee earners
• Identifying potential risks and working with the Risk team to address these
• Identifying opportunities for efficiencies, either through process optimisation, legal project management or technology, and working with FutureLaw and MLS to trial, promote adoption and implement these
• Writing legal insights for our website, as well as articles for external publications.
• Drafting responses to specific questions or parts of tenders
• Liaising closely with our wider team of Knowledge Lawyers who service other groups across the firm
• Mentoring and/or otherwise supporting the trainees in the team with developing their knowledge application and research skills