Knowledge Lawyer - Employment

TLT LLP; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm is seeking a Knowledge Lawyer to join their Employment team in Manchester, offering flexible working arrangements. The ideal candidate will be a qualified Solicitor with 5+ years' PQE in employment law. This role involves creating precedents, delivering training, and addressing complex legal queries, emphasizing a collaborative and supportive team environment. The firm values personal development and offers competitive benefits including flexible working options.

Benefits

Competitive salary

25 days holiday (increasing to 30)

Private medical insurance

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Qualified Solicitor with a minimum of 5 years' PQE in employment law.
• Strong attention to detail and legal drafting skills.
• Ability to communicate complex legal information succinctly.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain legal precedents and resources for fee earners.
• Deliver training to fee earners and clients.
• Monitor legal developments and update practice materials.

Skills

Qualified Solicitor with at least 5 years' PQE in employment law

Strong legal drafting skills

Ability to analyze and communicate legal information

Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Self-motivation and client-focused

Job description

We are recruiting for a Knowledge Lawyer to join our Employment team on a full or part‑time, flexible working basis, from one of our regional offices. This role would best suit an England & Wales qualified lawyer already in a knowledge / professional support role or a fee‑earner looking to branch into a support role.

Your Role

Day to day, you can expect to be involved in :

• Creating and maintaining precedents, as well as directing fee earners to external resources, which you will collate and annotate
• Creating and delivering internal training to our fee earners. This may include trainee programmes, training for junior lawyers, as well as regular practice area and market updates
• Creating and, where appropriate, delivering training to clients
• Keeping up to date with legal developments and notifying fee earners of the impact of these on their practice, as well as ensuring that any impacts are dealt with in precedents, and practice notes
• Dealing with complex legal queries from fee earners
• Ensuring that all relevant materials created by you and the fee earners are captured, up to date, monitored and included in TLT’s internal knowledge database and promoting the use of this with fee earners
• Working with relevant business services teams across the firm to ensure that your group / team resources are easily accessible
• Identifying potential risks and working with the Risk team to minimise these.
• Identifying opportunities for efficiencies, either through process optimisation, legal project management or technology
• Writing or contributing to legal insights for Atlas or our website, as well as articles for external publications
• Drafting responses to specific questions or parts of tenders
• Along with other KLs, working with relevant teams across the firm in relation to the design and functionality of our internal knowledge database
• Liaising closely with our wider team of Knowledge Lawyers who service other groups across the firm
• Where appropriate, mentoring and / or otherwise supporting the trainees in the team with developing their knowledge application and research skills

Your Skills & Experience

• A qualified Solicitor, with at least 5 years' PQE in employment law
• Strong legal drafting skills and attention to detail
• Ability to digest, analyse and succinctly communicate large amounts of legal and industry information to both internal and external clients
• Ability to work effectively independently and to work well as part of a team
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including strong presentation skills
• Self‑motivation with a strong client focused approach
• Awareness and familiarity with different tools available to support delivery of projects and matters

Your Team

TLT’s highly regarded Employment team is ranked in Chambers UK Guide and Legal 500 2025 and has enjoyed very strong growth in recent years. Our busy team of more than 60 specialists operates as a single national team across the three UK legal jurisdictions of England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. We have an enviable client base including many listed clients and have a particular focus in the financial services, retail, telecoms, future energy and public sectors. We have a supportive and open culture and supported by our Knowledge Lawyer team are committed to ongoing professional development of both technical and soft skills.

About TLT

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. TLT was named Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2023. This marks the third year in a row the firm has taken away this accolade in industry awards - having previously been named Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer Awards in 2021 and the British Legal Awards in 2022.

Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.

Our Benefits

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.

At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work / life balance of our people. We’re happy to talk about how flexible working can work for you and this role.