Employment Knowledge Lawyer

Linklaters; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading international law firm in London is seeking a part-time Knowledge Lawyer to join their Employment practice. The ideal candidate will have at least 6 years of relevant experience and strong skills in project management and legal analysis. Responsibilities include delivering training, supporting knowledge sharing, and developing training materials. This role offers the chance to work with top professionals in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Supportive team environment

Opportunities for continuous learning

Involvement in innovative projects

Qualifications

• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Excellent technical skills, including drafting and legal analysis.
• Ability to follow and synthesize legal and regulatory developments.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the Employment practice in know-how and learning.
• Deliver weekly training to the Employment team.
• Develop training materials and update client resources.
• Supervise trainees on know-how tasks.

Skills

Organisational skills

Project management

Legal analysis

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Knowledge of regulatory developments

Education

6 years relevant post-qualification experience

Job description

Direct applications only, no agency introductions will be accepted.

About us

Linklaters is a leading international law firm, with 30 offices in 20 countries worldwide. Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this by fostering a positive, supportive, and innovative culture, with opportunities for our talent to thrive.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

The work we do as a practice within the London Employment & Incentives team either makes the headlines, or is too confidential to make them. It is high-profile, technical and often very sensitive. It gives us access to the most senior people at clients and their stakeholders, including Chairs, executives and General Counsel.

The practice has a dedicated team for employment and employee incentives. In particular, the Employment practice has a dedicated team of Knowledge Lawyers, comprising a Senior Practice Development Lawyer and Managing Associate Knowledge Lawyer (in addition to this role). We also have dedicated marketing advisors to support on external and client-facing projects and materials.

Our team is innovative and creative in its thought leadership, knowledge-sharing and learning, both internally and in external and client-facing materials.

Know-how and knowledge sharing across the team is a highly valued and respected part of our practice. We hold weekly know-how meetings as a team which are highly regarded, well-attended and engaging.

About you

• You have at least 6 years’ relevant employment post-qualification experience either as a fee-earner or a Knowledge Lawyer/PSL (for overseas-qualified lawyers, this would be after any adjustment to account for the UK two-year training).
• You have strong organisational and project management skills and can manage multiple matters proactively, both independently and as part of a team.
• You want to work in a team which is collaborative, respectful and supportive, with an appetite for technical excellence, cutting-edge mandates, creative thought leadership and entrepreneurial business development.
• You have excellent technical skills, including drafting and legal analysis which can be applied to maintaining and producing precedents and thought leadership material.
• You have an ability to follow and synthesize legal and regulatory developments and issues, and are able to develop know-how and training on practical and commercial application of such issues.
• You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to work as part of a team and collaborate well with others.
• You have excellent problem-solving skills and an ability to apply law and regulation in a practical way to “real-life” scenarios.
• You are an engaging speaker with the ability to deliver training clearly, precisely and at a level matched to that of the audience.
• You have an interest in know-how systems, and a willingness to engage with new technologies and applications.

Your role

This role is offered on a part-time basis, three or four days per week and will involve working with colleagues across both sides of the team, but with a specific focus on the Employment practice.

You would be working alongside some of the most entrepreneurial, intelligent and commercially attuned employment lawyers in the UK market, as well as with our colleagues across the world and in other specialist areas.

Your primary focus will be to support the Employment practice in all areas of know-how and learning, including:

• identifying and monitoring key legal, regulatory and commercial developments.
• responsibility for delivering weekly training to the Employment team, together with the other Knowledge Lawyers.
• providing guidance and updates on legal and regulatory issues and developments – including contributing to practice area newsletters and resources.
• developing, managing and disseminating commercially useful precedents, memoranda, presentations and training materials.
• identifying developments of particular interest to clients, and producing and updating client materials with commentary and analysis.
• responding to queries from lawyers across the global practice.
• supervising trainees on know-how tasks, and working with associates on their ‘knowledge and learning’ contributions.
• enhancing and developing new mechanisms for capturing, sharing and communicating know-how.
• representing Linklaters at industry working groups and conferences.

In addition, this role also provides the opportunity to get involved in the firm’s development and our team’s adoption of AI and emerging technologies in the legal sector.

What sets us apart

• Market opportunity. We offer the opportunity to be part of a team involved in strategic, cutting-edge and market-leading projects and mandates that make the headlines and shape the future world of work.
• Our talent. We are a close-knit and supportive team comprising the best people in the market across technical capability and entrepreneurial skill. Having got the best people, we strive to make them feel included, valued and respected so they can perform at their best and in turn, foster a culture of mutual respect and support, which is reflected in the long tenure of many of our senior team members and our Knowledge Lawyers.
• Continued learning. Our team continuously learns. We advocate mutual knowledge sharing and have a dedicated team of lawyers within the practice who design tailored and bespoke knowledge sharing sessions, across technical and business development areas.
• Creative thought leadership. Our team strives to be different and at the forefront of the business world, which is reflected in our innovative external thought leadership. See our EmploymentLinks blog, podcast page and Diversity Faculty webpage and Diversity blog for examples.
• Trust and autonomy. We provide agile working solutions to meet the changing needs of our people and our business.
• We invest in developing leaders of the future who demonstrate emotional intelligence and a passion to discover, coach and develop the talents of others.
• As a firm, we advocate speak-up culture to empower our people in sharing their voices and an open-door policy to ensure they are listened to.
• We belong to a firm that embodies its corporate social, environment, and governance responsibility commitments, and supports the health and wellbeing of its people.

Our commitment to you/Linklaters

We are an entrepreneurial and collaborative practice, committed to providing our colleagues with the support and training they need to maximise their potential, career profile and growth.

We are a close-knit team and place great value on working together in a positive, supportive, fair and open working environment. We respect each other and value diversity of thought and insist on inclusivity.

You will be challenged, motivated, mentored and supported in the development of your career and given access to professional learning and skills-based programmes aimed at providing you with the tools to meet your career ambitions.

Please note that we are unable to accept agency introductions for this role. Agency CVs will be immediately declined and deleted in accordance with our data privacy obligations and shall not impact our ability to directly source the individual for this role.

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

Application Policy

Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal.Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders ([e-mail] for legal roles or [e-mail] for business team roles).