Edinburgh Property PSL & Knowledge Manager

JMC Legal Recruitment; Dunfermline; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

JMC Legal Recruitment is assisting a leading Scottish law firm in Edinburgh to recruit a Professional Support Lawyer and Knowledge Manager. This hybrid role combines strong Scottish Real Estate expertise with knowledge management and training responsibilities to support high-quality client advice.

You will work with fee-earners across the property and infrastructure teams, develop precedents and resources, and help shape the firm’s knowledge strategy, including AI-enabled initiatives and CPD

Qualifications

• Scottish Qualified Solicitor with solid experience in Scottish Real Estate.
• Strong technical legal knowledge and up-to-date with developments across the property sector.
• Excellent drafting, research and written communication skills.
• Comfortable developing precedents, guidance and other technical resources.
• An interest in knowledge sharing, learning and development and supporting the wider team.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities.
• Confident working collaboratively with lawyers and wider business teams.
• An interest in technology, legal innovation and the evolving role of AI within knowledge management would be advantageous.
• Able to communicate complex information clearly and practically to different audiences.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain Scottish property knowledge resources, ensuring content remains accurate, relevant and accessible.
• Identify and capture valuable knowledge and expertise from fee-earners and develop effective processes for sharing it across the team.
• Draft, introduce and update precedents, guides, manuals and other practical resources.
• Collect and maintain useful styles and examples of best practice.
• Support the preparation and testing of automated property documentation.
• Assist with property training sessions, trainee inductions and training for assistants and paralegals.
• Support online client services and the set-up of relevant client accounts.
• Liaise with Business Development and Marketing on relevant knowledge and content.
• Help develop and maintain website articles and encourage the sharing of relevant property knowledge.
• Support the central Knowledge Management team with the roll-out and development of the firm's knowledge system.
• Monitor usage, submissions and approval processes for precedents, know-how and other knowledge resources.
• Improve the user experience, taxonomy and findability of information within the knowledge system.
• Work with PSLs and knowledge champions across the firm to understand priorities and encourage effective knowledge management.
• Organise and chair quarterly meetings of the firm's knowledge champions group.
• Work with the Head of Knowledge and Service Delivery to identify and progress Knowledge Management priorities in line with the firm's wider business and AI strategies.
• Represent Knowledge Management on the firm's Learning and Development committee.
• Assist with CPD queries, training needs analysis and the organisation of relevant training programmes.

Skills

Scottish Real Estate

Legal research

Drafting

Knowledge sharing

Project management

Tech savvy

AI in KM

Job description

JMC Legal Recruitment is assisting a leading Scottish law firm in Edinburgh to recruit a Professional Support Lawyer and Knowledge Manager. This hybrid role combines strong Scottish Real Estate expertise with knowledge management and training responsibilities to support high-quality client advice.

You will work with fee-earners across the property and infrastructure teams, develop precedents and resources, and help shape the firm’s knowledge strategy, including AI-enabled initiatives and CPD