Knowledge Lawyer
Kennedys are looking for a Knowledge Lawyer to work in their London office. The successful applicant will be working as part of a small centralised Knowledge Management team to assist Kennedys UK lawyers at all levels to access the knowledge and technical training they need in order to maintain a high standard of service offered to the firm's clients.
Responsibilities
- Developing and supporting a knowledge sharing culture - Supporting and encouraging knowledge sharing activities and behaviours across groups and teams, through e.g. understanding knowledge needs and implementing solutions to surface specific expertise, specialisms and insights; developing communities of practice; developing and growing online knowledge hubs/repositories
- Knowledge collection - Gathering, reviewing and organising collections of useful knowledge for Kennedys lawyers, including managing the process of capturing and disseminating such knowledge across the firm
- Reviewing, updating and drafting standard documents - Reviewing and where necessary maintaining standard documents, templates, checklists, etc. to assist lawyers in delivering a consistently high quality of service to clients
- Knowledge systems – Managing, developing and maintaining the firm’s knowledge systems – reviewing and publishing knowhow, maintaining taxonomies and feeding into knowledge system improvements and developments
- Training - Working with lawyers at all levels and across all practice areas alongside the team’s Knowledge & Learning Executive, to identify Kennedys lawyers’ legal technical training needs and reviewing/developing training materials where required
- Current Awareness - Monitoring specific legal developments to help ensure Kennedys lawyers are kept up to date with relevant developments in the law, practice and procedure
- Projects - Driving/contributing to various ongoing knowledge projects and initiatives
Skills and experience
- Civil litigation experience/working knowledge of CPR essential
- Strong legal drafting skills
- Strong legal research skills
- The ability to communicate complex issues with clarity
- Good technical skills (Microsoft applications as a minimum) and a demonstrable interest in technology solutions
- Previous Knowledge Lawyer/Practice Development Lawyer/Professional Support Lawyer experience an advantage
- PQE: 5+
The Team
This Knowledge Lawyer FTC role is based in Kennedys centralised Knowledge Management team, who collectively provide knowledge services, information/research services and organise legal training for lawyers across all of Kennedys UK offices. This is a small, productive team and the successful candidate will be expected to be a strong player and work collaboratively with the other team members including the Knowledge & Learning Executive (to identify and deliver solutions to meet Kennedys lawyers' legal training needs) and the Knowledge & Information Manager (to deliver various knowledge projects/initiatives) as well as proactively building strong relationships with lawyers and Partners at all levels.
About Kennedys
Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,000 people worldwide across 37 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.
Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.
We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you’ll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.