Knowledge Lawyer (5+ Pqe) - Employment

Mishcon De Reya; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mishcon de Reya LLP in London seeks a Knowledge Lawyer to join the Employment Department’s Knowledge team. The role focuses on developing knowledge assets, supporting business development, and delivering client-focused content while advancing the firm’s technological transformation.

Ideal candidates will have 5+ years PQE, deep employment law knowledge, excellent drafting skills, and a proactive, collaborative approach.

Qualifications

• 5+ years PQE / call.
• Excellent technical skills in a top-tier firm or chambers.
• Deep knowledge of employment law and practice.
• Proven track record in business development and knowledge commercialization.
• Excellent writing and drafting skills, with attention to detail.
• Great teamwork and ability to work independently with self-motivation.
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels and with clients.
• Willingness to embrace new ways of working and emerging legal technology.
• Personable and confident with relationship-building abilities.
• Resilient under pressure and adaptable.
• Proactive and takes initiative.
• Proficient with Microsoft programs.

Responsibilities

• Shape and deliver the department's knowledge strategy in collaboration with other Knowledge Lawyers.
• Provide strategic support to identify and implement new Business Development initiatives.
• Use knowledge and technology to develop client opportunities and improve service delivery.
• Create content for client alerts, articles, and publications, including external media.
• Coordinate and deliver internal and client legal training with the Academy.
• Maintain precedents and know-how, including automated document assembly.
• Monitor developments and provide horizon scanning updates to lawyers and clients.
• Manage knowledge pages on the Firm's intranet and other repositories.
• Support risk management and compliance across the Department.
• Respond to technical law and practice queries from fee-earners.
• Undertake in-depth research to produce clear materials for fee-earners and clients.
• Contribute to development of national policy and legislation relating to employment law.
• Other Knowledge Lawyer duties as required.

Skills

PQE 5+ years

Employment law knowledge

Business development

Technical writing

Teamwork

Client communication

Legal tech aptitude

Microsoft skills

Job description

The Employment team at Mishcon de Reya works across complex, high profile and high-stakes situations, acting at the highest level for both employers and senior executives. Our work covers the full spectrum of contentious and non-contentious employment law, and we work seamlessly with our dedicated incentives and business immigration teams. We currently have around 70 fee earners and 17 partners, making us one of the biggest employment teams in London.

As a top-tier practice acting at the forefront of employment law, we are regularly instructed on cases that raise the most important legal questions of the day. The team is renowned for its strategic approach and litigation expertise, regularly appearing in the Employment Appeal Tribunal, High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.

While our clients span all sectors, we have a particular emphasis on financial services, insurance, fashion and retail, and the luxury and media sectors. We have significant experience dealing with the complexities of LLPs, private equity and venture capital firms.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Knowledge Lawyers are a team of dedicated 'lawyer to lawyer' experts and benefit from the same career structure (including partnership) as fee-earners. They develop knowledge assets and support excellence and brand in our offering; train and mentor our lawyers; deliver engaging content and thinking to clients and our wider external knowledge communities; and steer us in being compliant, more efficient and profitable in the way we practise law.

Being part of the Knowledge Lawyer team at Mishcon will place you at the heart of the firm's vision to be technologically transformed, delivering knowledge for businesses of the future and shaping possibilities for our people and our clients.

You will be joining the Employment Department's existing Knowledge team at a hugely exciting time in the growth of the Employment Department and the development of employment law.

This role, which has a strong client-facing and thought-leadership focus, is central to driving success for the Employment Department and the Firm as a whole. The list below sets out the full range of activity the role can encompass as it develops - candidates are not expected to already have experience across all these areas. Depending on your existing skillset and experience, you will, over time:

• Shape and deliver the department's knowledge strategy, collaborating with the other Knowledge Lawyers in the Employment Department and with the wider Firm to implement their strategic knowledge visions.
• Provide targeted, strategic support to identify, leverage and - with the support of the BD team and fee-earners - implement new and emerging Business Development initiatives.
• Use knowledge, AI and other technology to develop business opportunities, add value to key client relationships, and bring efficiencies to client service delivery.
• Deliver content for the Department's communication strategy including client alerts and articles in other Mishcon and external publications, including the legal, trade, and general press.
• Alongside our highly regarded Academy, co-ordinate, design, prepare, capture and deliver internal and client legal training.
• Collect, draft, maintain and keep updated key precedents, know how, and client guides including with automated document assembly, following the Firm's house style.
• Monitor law and practice developments and provide horizon scanning updates to both our lawyers and clients.
• Manage the Employment Department's knowledge pages on the Firm's intranet (Mishcon Knowledge) and other know how repositories.
• Work with Risk & Compliance and the Partners to implement and embed best practice (Mq²) and risk management practices across the Department and support in any statutory, regulatory and other risk management changes.
• Respond to technical law and practice queries from fee-earners.
• Undertake in-depth research into a variety of areas to produce clear and accessible materials for fee-earners and clients.
• Contribute to the development of national policy and legislation relating to employment law.
• Other general Knowledge Lawyer duties.

Skills/Experience

• Ideally the equivalent of around 5+ years PQE / call.
• Excellent technical skills, with experience gained working in comparable, renowned law firms or chambers.
• Deep knowledge of employment law and practice.
• Real enthusiasm for, and proven record of, business development and knowledge commercialisation.
• Excellent writing and drafting skills, and attention to detail.
• Great teamwork skills and the ability to work independently with self-motivation.
• Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels, both internally and with clients.
• Ability to embrace and promote new ways of working and aptitude to work with emerging legal technology.
• Personable and confident, able to build relationships with colleagues, clients and external organisations.
• Resilient and calm under pressure.
• Adaptable and flexible approach.
• Proactive and takes initiative.
• Sound operational knowledge of Microsoft programs.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

About Mishcon de Reya LLP

Mishcon de Reya is an independent law firm, which now employs over 1400 people with more than 650 lawyers offering a wide range of legal services to companies and individuals. The firm has grown rapidly in recent years, showing more than 40% revenue growth in the past five years alone.

With presence in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Singapore, Hong Kong and UAE, the firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply.

The work the firm undertakes is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, centred around three increasingly entwined and connected sectors: the Innovation Economy, Private Wealth and Capital, and Real Estate. The firm is known as a disputes powerhouse with a formidable capacity firmwide for dispute resolution.

We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.