Financial Services Professional Support Lawyer

Our client, a top tier firm, is currently recruiting for a Knowledge Lawyer for their Financial Services team. As well as the relevant skills and experience, they are looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do. This role would allow you to be pioneering and creative in your approach to it.

The role would involve:
Drafting material for external or internal publications including blogs and identifying topics of interest and likely candidates for articles.
Carrying out analysis of latest developments in the areas of focus of the role and ensuring dissemination of knowledge, internally and externally.
Providing knowledge support to London business development initiatives, including supporting client campaigns and initiatives (including our monthly flagship seminars/webinars, podcasts and bespoke client training).
Advising lawyers and discussing the legal issues which they face in their transactions and matters, and providing assistance to lawyers in their research.
Maintaining existing precedents and drafting new precedents.
Maintaining existing practice notes, drafting new practice notes and assisting in their drafting.
Planning, organising, preparing and delivering legal and industry focused training to trainees, fee-earners and clients.
Supporting London strategy and business group meetings and taking an active role in supporting the activities of those groups.
In collaboration with business development, maintaining the content of existing financial services web pages and creating content for new web pages.
Promoting the use of and keeping up to date systems for knowledge collection and dissemination (research notes, transactional documents / bibles, training material etc.).
Supporting the delivery of the central Knowledge strategy, including relevant departmental and pillar strategies.
Managing and implementing the Knowledge Investment Hours policy.

Skills and Experience Required
Qualified lawyer with a minimum of 5 years' PQE in the UK financial services sector, ideally from a city firm.
Experience in drafting in plain language and in English.
Ability to work with a variety of personalities across all levels of the organization.
Experience in or interest in the collation, storage and delivery of knowledge.
Project management experience and demonstrated creativity in problem solving.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Excellent legal research skills.
This role offers an attractive salary, flexible working and a generous benefits package.

To learn more, please contact Jennifer Wellspeak
0203 909 5176 or jenniferwellspeak@chadwicknott.co.uk

*Where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.

Chadwick Nott Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.