Commercial Knowledge Lawyer

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THE FIRM

Addleshaw Goddard stand out for being consistently excellent in advice. Renowned for the quality of our service, attention to detail and the depth and breadth of our talent, we ensure that every person at AG is given every opportunity to develop their technical, professional, commercial and inter-personal skills through their day to day work and our bespoke Learning and Development programme. We want our people to fulfil their potential in an environment where they are developed and valued.

We are innovators in the development of technology in the provision of legal services and have won multiple awards for our technology offering. Our AG Intelligent Delivery offering provides clients with a range of technology solutions, enabling us to win the best work from the best clients.

THE TEAM

We are busy, high performing and cohesive, but at the same time have a modern approach to work and are advocates of the flexible working policy at AG. We have a down to earth culture and a positive, supportive and stretching environment where we hope employees can flourish with the full support required.

From offices in London, Manchester, Leeds, Scotland (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen), our lawyers advise on, interpret, draft and negotiate a wide variety of commercial contracts on behalf of a range of clients from start-ups to FTSE 100 companies. Our practice spans contractual agreements, IT, payment systems and data protection, to name a few. Particular sectoral foci are retail and consumer, financial services, industrials, and digital. Many of our commercial lawyers also offer specialist knowledge of key legal areas such as intellectual property, data protection and competition law. This enables us to provide commercial advice in context, while our sectoral experience and knowledge of our clients’ businesses adds real value. We also pride ourselves on innovative thinking.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

We are looking for a Knowledge Lawyer to support our Commercial Team we would consider this role to be based within any of our Scotland, Manchester or Leeds office for the right candidate. This role will support our internal fee-earners through training and know-how and therefore day to day you will work directly with the partners and fee earners in the Commercial team focussing on the team priorities and their support requirements.

The role is client facing as we see the knowledge role as one of the key ways in which we engage with clients and targets.

For this role we welcome applications from experienced Commercial Lawyers interested in Knowledge Lawyer opportunities or experienced Knowledge Lawyers.

DUTIES

As a Knowledge Lawyer in the team, you can expect to:

• Act in an advisory capacity in supporting colleagues and clients with complex legal research queries, helping them develop the skills to find answers for themselves and help tailor advice to a client’s specific needs.
• Find effective ways to update colleagues and clients on legal developments in an engaging and thought provoking manner including the development of briefings, thought leadership and bespoke horizon scanning solutions.
• Organise and delivers regular training on relevant legal topics for clients (both value add and fee-earning) and colleagues.
• Organise personal and team contributions to internal and client knowledge. For example, updating precedents, authoring relevant know-how, deals done / experience databases, and managing collaboration tools and extranets.
• Developing matter-based and generic checklists, how to guides, practice notes and other forms of formal know-how, as appropriate
• Identify and delivers innovative approaches to managing and sharing knowledge for the benefit of colleagues and clients. For example, using new technologies such as artificial intelligence / machine learning software.
• Network internally and externally to build personal profile and reputation as a subject matter expert, develop effective working relationships that help get things done, and brings back best practice from other Departments, Divisions and firms which is subsequently implemented in their own team
• Involvement in the continuous development of technology in the provision of our legal services
• Contribute to firmwide knowledge management through the wider knowledge lawyer group.
  

Knowledge, Skills And Experience Required

Our ideal applicant will require the following skills and experience:

• Be an experienced Commercial Lawyer with a minimum of 4 years post qualification experience seeking a change in direction OR a current PSL with experience of working in a Commercial focused role.
• Have a deep interest in Commercial law
• Ability to work closely with partners and associates and quickly gain their confidence
• Have excellent interpersonal, drafting and writing skills
• Be both proactive and well organised
• Have good project management skills
• Have excellent presentation and communication skills to communicate complex legal concepts effectively and simply
• Be prepared to work as part of a highly-motivated and hard-working team often working to tight deadlines
  

AG is an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of a person’s gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic. We are committed to having a diverse team and actively encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and communities, particularly those from underrepresented demographics. We want our recruitment practices to be as inclusive as possible, so please let us know if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process to help you perform to your best.