Corporate Knowledge Lawyer

Osborne Clarke; West of England, Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Osborne Clarke is seeking a Corporate Knowledge Lawyer to provide high-quality knowledge support for its top-tier Corporate team. The role offers flexible, hybrid working and a pathway into a high-profile knowledge function.

You will collaborate with Corporate Knowledge Lawyers and Partners, contributing to training, knowledge assets and client-centric knowledge delivery across practice areas and geographies.

Qualifications

• Legally-qualified with postgraduate experience.

Responsibilities

• As a Corporate Knowledge Lawyer you will keep the corporate and wider team up-to-date on relevant legal and regulatory changes across the team's practice.
• Deliver and facilitate engaging legal training and know-how sharing.
• Develop and maintain a technically excellent collection of template documents.
• Proactively support the use of AI tools and technology relevant to Corporate work.
• Drive a consistent client knowledge offering including insights, horizon-scanning, and multi-jurisdictional overviews.
• Address queries from lawyers and clients regarding current law and practice.
• Work collaboratively with existing Corporate Knowledge Lawyers.
• Input into and help deliver the Corporate team and Osborne Clarke Knowledge strategy.

Skills

Knowledge management

Training delivery

Technical writing

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Qualified lawyer / Legal qualification

Tools

AI tools usage

Job description

Role profile

We are looking for a Knowledge Lawyer/Professional Support Lawyer to provide high quality knowledge support for our top-tier Corporate team.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an experienced and well-respected Knowledge team, working in a supportive and collegiate environment. It would suit both someone who was looking to move to their first knowledge role as well as those with previous experience of professional support wanting a high-profile role which is central to many areas of the Firm's work. You would be stepping into an established Knowledge function and working alongside other Corporate Knowledge Lawyers, as well as a wider Knowledge team.

We recognise the importance of flexibility, and flexible working arrangements are common across the Knowledge team and within the Practice Group. We are happy to discuss both formal working hours (full-time or part-time) and hybrid working arrangements for this opportunity.

The practice

The Corporate team handles a broad and diverse range of corporate work, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, emerging companies and venture capital, equity capital markets, joint ventures, corporate governance, and corporate reorganisations and simplifications. We focus on acting for clients driving transformational change across technology, media and telecommunications, energy and energy transition, and life sciences and healthcare, as well as financial services, mobility, retail and consumer, infrastructure, and the built environment. A number of the partners in the team are market leaders in these sectors and attract high profile and innovative mandates.

We act for a wide variety of clients, including large quoted companies, privately owned businesses and their shareholders, private equity and venture capital firms, banks, financial institutions and institutional investors..

The opportunity

Knowledge is at the heart of Osborne Clarke's strategy, and you will be a key member of an innovative and purposeful Knowledge team. You will provide dynamic, technically excellent and business-focused support to the Corporate team, implementing best practice professional support within a fast-growing part of our business.

You will work collaboratively with the existing Corporate Knowledge Lawyers, the Corporate Partners and other members of the Knowledge team as well as sales and marketing professionals and Partners in other parts of the firm. You will carry out your responsibilities with the support of your line manager - the Head of Business Transactions Group Knowledge - and dedicated paralegal, PA and training administration support.

Like all our people, you will benefit from our multi-award winning development programme so that you are well supported and developed in your role to build a career in Knowledge.

Key Responsibilities

As a Corporate Knowledge Lawyer you will:

• keep the Corporate and wider team up-to-date on relevant legal and regulatory change across the team's practice, including producing reader-friendly internal updates on relevant developments;


• deliver and facilitate engaging legal training and know-how sharing;


• develop and maintain a technically excellent collection of template documents;


• proactively support the use of AI tools and other technology relevant to Corporate work and be an enthusiastic champion of technology to deliver client service;


• driving a consistent client knowledge offering including insights, horizon-scanning, multi-jurisdictional overviews and client seminars, workshops and webinars as part of the team's overall business development activities;


• address queries from lawyers and clients regarding current law and practice;


• work collaboratively with the existing Corporate Knowledge Lawyers; and


• input into and helping to deliver the Corporate team and Osborne Clarke Knowledge strategy.

Skills And Experience

You will have an excellent knowledge of law, regulation and practice across a range of corporate transaction types.

You will have an ability to present information clearly - both in writing and when speaking. You will be a pro-active self-starter with excellent organisational skills.

Due to the technical nature of the work, we are looking for someone who is legally-qualified with relevant post-graduate experience. You may be a fee-earning lawyer in private practice or working within the legal team of a business, in academia or in a knowledge role elsewhere, or returning to work after a career break.

If you are unsure whether your qualifications and experience are right for the role, please do contact us - we are always happy to have informal conversations with people who would like to join our team.

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generousbenefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

Our recruitment process

Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

AtOsborne Clarkewe value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.

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