Litigation Knowledge Lawyer

at  Reynolds Porter Chamberlain

Job Title
Litigation Knowledge Lawyer
Position
Full Time
Role

Knowledge Lawyer
Location

London
Experience

Legal
Description

Knowledge, skills and experience

• A Knowledge Lawyer, or a fee earner with at least 5 years’ experience.
• Broad experience of commercial litigation and arbitration.
• Ability to contribute technical expertise on complex client issues to support an excellent client service.
• Enthusiastic about working in a knowledge role and bringing a proactive mindset to providing the best support to fee earners.
• An interest in the impact of emerging technology, including generative AI, on litigation.
• Proactively develops and maintains a network of contacts to develop market intelligence and knowhow.
• Works efficiently and commercially, with an ability to undertake multiple complex projects, and work across functions to share resource and bring together the best combination of skills to deliver strategic priorities.
• Collaborative and works effectively in a team.
• Understands how to develop junior team members and support their ambitions.
• Committed to being part of a supportive, inclusive and collaborative firm culture

An exciting opportunity for a Litigation Knowledge Lawyer, or a mid-level to senior Litigation lawyer looking to move away from a traditional fee earning role, to join us as the Knowledge Lawyer for our Commercial & Banking Litigation (CBL) team, which is part of the wider Commercial Disputes Group.
RPC’s CBL team acts for a wide range of clients, from large corporates to high-net-worth individuals, in complex litigation and arbitration. The team has a particular focus on banking and financial markets disputes, civil fraud and asset recovery, competition disputes, company and shareholder disputes, trusts and wealth disputes and international arbitration. The Litigation Knowledge Lawyer will support all these focus areas. They will be part of the wider Knowledge & Legal Technology department but will be dedicated to the CBL team.
This is a full-time role based from our London office. We will consider flexible working requests for the right candidate.

Key responsibilities:

• Current Awareness: Assist with horizon scanning, keep up to date with legal, business and industry developments and assist with disseminating relevant information to our lawyers and clients.
• BD: Raise the profile of the CBL team and cement client relationships by drafting and assisting with briefing notes, legal insights and thought leadership content for external and internal consumption.
• Precedents: Draft, develop and maintain the team’s litigation precedents.
• To execute litigation training, content and knowledge projects for the CBL team in line with the firm’s knowledge strategy.
• Training: Assist with trainee knowledge development.
• Know How: Work with the central Knowledge & Legal Technology department, to proactively capture and disseminate know how to demonstrate best practice.
• Knowledge projects: Execute discrete knowledge projects. Assist the Associate Director of Knowledge & Legal Technology and other Knowledge Lawyers to establish a central and consistent approach to knowledge management. This will involve a commitment to firm-wide knowledge projects.
• Research: Undertake complex legal research and respond to technical commercial litigation queries to provide support on client matters and business development activities.
• Intranet: Maintain and develop the CBL team’s intranet pages including responsibility for keeping up to date the firm’s Litigation Hub.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• A Knowledge Lawyer, or a fee earner with at least 5 years’ experience.
• Broad experience of commercial litigation and arbitration.
• Ability to contribute technical expertise on complex client issues to support an excellent client service.
• Enthusiastic about working in a knowledge role and bringing a proactive mindset to providing the best support to fee earners.
• An interest in the impact of emerging technology, including generative AI, on litigation.
• Proactively develops and maintains a network of contacts to develop market intelligence and knowhow.
• Works efficiently and commercially, with an ability to undertake multiple complex projects, and work across functions to share resource and bring together the best combination of skills to deliver strategic priorities.
• Collaborative and works effectively in a team.
• Understands how to develop junior team members and support their ambitions.
• Committed to being part of a supportive, inclusive and collaborative firm culture.