Corporate Professional Support Lawyer - 4+ years' PQE

A vacancy has arisen for a professional support lawyer to join our PSL function to provide support to our Corporate group.

We seek applications from qualified lawyers with a minimum of four years' PQE, which will include experience of handling corporate/M&A transactions/public company work. We will consider candidates who have a wish to work part-time/flexibly.

Candidates should have a strong academic background, an agile intellect, commercial acumen and a practical, constructive approach. This opportunity would be suitable for either a fee earning Corporate lawyer wanting to move to a support role or a current Practice Support Lawyer looking for a new challenge.

The purpose of the role is to ensure that our corporate lawyers have up-to-date knowledge of developments in law, practice and commercial activity in our client’s sectors and to develop tools such as precedents and know-how to support them in efficient working practices. This is an interesting and varied role involving know-how, training, marketing support and liaison with management and support departments. The firm is of a substantial size, with 64 partners, and the professional support/know how function is recognised as playing an important role in ensuring the quality of service we provide to clients.

Duties and Responsibilities

· Working alone (and with other PSLs across the firm) in researching, collecting, summarising and disseminating information;

· Creating and maintaining precedents and other standard documentation;

· Developing, managing and maintaining a desktop IT support system (including the extraction of relevant information from lawyers and ensuring its appropriate classification in the system);

· Working with our library facility in the provision of complementary services to our lawyers;

· Working with the training department and training partners to identify appropriate topics for lectures and seminars; assisting the training department in the management of such events; delivering and assisting in training junior level lawyers, developing knowledge and practical skills;

· Occasional fee earning assistance/support to partners/senior lawyers with discrete research requests;

· Assisting (including liaison with Marketing where appropriate) in marketing initiatives including keeping lawyers appraised of the latest news and developments involving clients and targets; liaison with external PR consultants; in securing publication of articles in legal and national press; assisting in writing articles for external publication; assisting in the preparation of seminars/presentations and brochures; assist in updating RPC web site.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

Technical experience as described under “Context” above with 4 + years’ pqe in relevant practice area
Excellent communication skills

Effective team player with a proactive approach to teamwork

Confident and robust

Able to work with minimum supervision and drive initiatives forward

Good IT and typing skills without requiring secretarial support

Well organised and able to work to deadlines

Flexible

Good interpersonal skills

Motivated and enthusiastic

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