We are recruiting for a Knowledge Lawyer to join our Real Estate Future Energy team in Glasgow or Edinburgh. This role offers fully flexible working and can accommodate full or part-time hours.

YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• You must be a Scottish qualified Solicitor, with at least 5 years’ PQE in transactional real estate work, including on future energy projects
• 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, with strong project management and time management skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including strong presentation skills
• Self-motivated with a strong client focused approach
• Awareness and familiarity with different tools available to support delivery of projects and matters
• Self-motivated with a strong client-focused approach

The day-to-day tasks outlined below give an indication of some of the tasks that you may be expected to carry out as a Knowledge Lawyer:

• 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 may include trainee programmes, training for junior lawyers, as well as regular practice area and market updates
• Creating and, where appropriate, delivering training to clients
• 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
• Working with relevant business services teams across the firm to ensure that your group/team resources are easily accessible
• Identifying potential risks and working with the Risk team to minimise 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 or contributing to legal insights for internal use, or our website, as well as articles for external publications
• Where required, drafting responses to specific questions or parts of tenders
• Along with other KLs, working with relevant teams across the firm in relation to the design and functionality of our internal knowledge database
• Liaising closely with our wider team of Knowledge Lawyers who service other groups across the firm
• Where appropriate, mentoring and/or otherwise supporting the trainees in the team with developing their knowledge application and research skills
• Creating and/or delivering training to clients