Knowledge Lawyer for Commercial, Data IPTech and Trade (Data, Cyber and AI

at  Baker McKenzie

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

Some travel will be required, largely within the EMEA region.

Knowledge and Expertise:

• Precedents: Review, draft, develop, and automate the Group’s precedents and other legal content
• Current awareness and commercial/industry know-how: Deeply understand clients’ industries and businesses and use that knowledge to optimize opportunities for know-how creation, current awareness updates including client alerts, and connecting business and industry knowledge relating to the Group to broader Firm initiatives. Monitor and spot forward-looking Group issues and trends and translate their legal impact to clients and lawyers in a commercial way. Possess a fundamental understanding of the work performed by the Firm’s other practice and industry groups to connect their work to the Group and vice versa. Enhance internal awareness of Group-specific issues and equip lawyers to talk about them irrespective of their practice group
• Lawyer requests: Be a sounding board and trusted advisor to lawyers on complex legal issues and devise systems for capturing and analyzing lawyer inquiries to produce knowhow to address gaps
• Know-how development: Devise and implement a strategy to ensure that know-how is comprehensive and up-to-date across the Group. Ensure that know-how best practices are being followed throughout the Group and contribute to developing them
• Training: Devise and deliver a training plan linked to the Group’s business strategy identify opportunities for using different media and collaborate with the Learning and Development team. Link the Group’s training program to broader Firm training initiatives
• Client-facing knowledge: Set the agenda for thought leadership campaigns after discussing with key stakeholders and aligning with the Group’s strategy, promoting industry-focused analysis rather than just providing ‘news’; Create processes to ensure timely and relevant horizon-scanning products are created across the Group. Identify ways to structure work and work output to produce tangible products, including training, for clients
• Policy initiatives and capacity-building: Work with the Group on policy initiatives and lobbying, including offering training and knowledge-sharing sessions, responding to consultations, and generally maintaining good channels for dialogue with political and governmental individuals and bodie

To manage and execute legal content projects, training, and knowledge initiatives for the Group in alignment with the Firm’s knowledge strategy. The role-holder will make first-class knowledge easily available to lawyers, increasing the quality, consistency, and cost-effectiveness of the advice the Firm gives its clients focusing on data, cyber, and AI-related legal work.
Main responsibilities

Knowledge and Expertise:

• Precedents: Review, draft, develop, and automate the Group’s precedents and other legal content
• Current awareness and commercial/industry know-how: Deeply understand clients’ industries and businesses and use that knowledge to optimize opportunities for know-how creation, current awareness updates including client alerts, and connecting business and industry knowledge relating to the Group to broader Firm initiatives. Monitor and spot forward-looking Group issues and trends and translate their legal impact to clients and lawyers in a commercial way. Possess a fundamental understanding of the work performed by the Firm’s other practice and industry groups to connect their work to the Group and vice versa. Enhance internal awareness of Group-specific issues and equip lawyers to talk about them irrespective of their practice group
• Lawyer requests: Be a sounding board and trusted advisor to lawyers on complex legal issues and devise systems for capturing and analyzing lawyer inquiries to produce knowhow to address gaps
• Know-how development: Devise and implement a strategy to ensure that know-how is comprehensive and up-to-date across the Group. Ensure that know-how best practices are being followed throughout the Group and contribute to developing them
• Training: Devise and deliver a training plan linked to the Group’s business strategy identify opportunities for using different media and collaborate with the Learning and Development team. Link the Group’s training program to broader Firm training initiatives
• Client-facing knowledge: Set the agenda for thought leadership campaigns after discussing with key stakeholders and aligning with the Group’s strategy, promoting industry-focused analysis rather than just providing ‘news’; Create processes to ensure timely and relevant horizon-scanning products are created across the Group. Identify ways to structure work and work output to produce tangible products, including training, for clients
• Policy initiatives and capacity-building: Work with the Group on policy initiatives and lobbying, including offering training and knowledge-sharing sessions, responding to consultations, and generally maintaining good channels for dialogue with political and governmental individuals and bodies

Service Orientation:

• Relationships: Promote an integrated, “one global team” mindset among the team and implement and influence the knowledge culture throughout the Group. Establish and nurture long-term relationships with key decision-makers across the Firm to help achieve results, coaching and facilitating the building and establishment of long-term relationships by their team members; Ensure that Knowledge work for the Group is recognized and rewarded. Connect the Group work with the work of Knowledge Lawyers in other practice and industry groups for wider benefit

Work Management

• Operations and innovation: Redefine the Group’s Knowledge services and best practices and promote them among lawyers in the Group. Promote an innovative and quality-focused mindset and challenge the team to consider how to deliver services more effectively and efficiently; Collaborate with the lawyers and our technology teams to identify, develop, and promote the use of legal tech, including AI. Promote greater use of offshore Service Centers, integrated use of project managers, and other technology tools to manage costs and improve efficiency in the Group
• Systems: Act as an internal champion for Knowledge systems, ensuring the engagement of all lawyers in the Group. Identify and implement Knowledge system changes (technological and behavioral) needed in order better to deliver legal content
• Strategy, alignment, and integration: Build and implement a comprehensive Knowledge Plan for the Group. Align the Group’s Knowledge Plan with its business plan, the Firm’s strategic framework, the Knowledge strategy, and the Industry group’s strategy; Create a single/joint community among fee-earning lawyers, Knowledge Lawyers, and other Knowledge and business professionals within the Group and across countries and regions; Emphasize and illustrate the cross-practice group nature and impact of Group know-how