Main duties and responsibilities:
Identify, arrange and deliver or procure delivery of training in areas of law that are of firm wide application, for example recurring updates in contract, tort, trusts, basic tax, data protection, insolvency, legal issues surrounding execution of documents and dealing with different legal entities.
To support the training department in evaluating legal e-learning products.
To be responsible for maintaining a number of central precedents of firm wide application and where there is currently no PSL responsible (e.g. execution of documents). Promote awareness of internal and external provision of resources in this area.
To identify and draft or procure further technical legal precedents as necessary.
To perform a legal monitoring service to identify issues that may have application to the firm as a whole or to its central operational functions. To provide support to the central functions by the provision of legal briefing notes to support required action. (e.g. legal services, CCTV regulations etc)
To provide wider legal updates to fee earners to maintain their general awareness of changes in law outside their area of specialism.
To provide legal input in to the preparation of any public consultations that are of relevance to the firm as a whole (rather than a specific practise area) e.g. Legal Services Act
To maintain a good technical knowledge of core compliance areas such as Code of Conduct, money laundering and data protection in order to provide specialist legal support/opinion to the standards partners and the head of best practice.
To work with the PSLs regarding compliance issues and to gather in input from the PSLs on legal issues of relevance to the firm as a whole or its central operational functions.
To promote consistency of format of standard legal clauses.
To support training, KM, PSL and marketing teams in the provision of sector and client specific fests.
To draw attention to issues that could impact upon and require changes to terms of engagement and business (but not to be responsible for amendments to these documents).
Requirements:
A general in house counsel or lawyer who is a litigation or commercial specialist is most likely to have the experience needed to perform this role.
The post holder must be willing to be flexible in their time commitment to ensure that they can be available for training and meetings on varying days of the week and times whether or not these fall within core working hours.
In addition we believe the individual would need the following skills and attributes
(a) Essential:-
(i) Influencing, team playing and motivational skills
(ii) Excellent legal skills
(iii) The ability to search and extrapolate relevant information from a wide range of reference materials.
(iv) Good training and presentation skills
(v) Good commercial eye and an ability to spot opportunities
(vi) Orientation to quality
(b) Desirable:-
(i) Strategic thinking skills
(ii) Administrative and organisation skills
(iii) Prioritisation skills
(iv) Time and cost effective approaches to communicating information
