Head of Disputes & Risk Knowledge Lawyer

THE FIRM

An international law firm

THE ROLE

A Head of D&R Knowledge is sought who will be a senior Commercial Disputes Knowledge Lawyer, to head up the Disputes & Risk Knowledge Team.

Once appointed, you will take the lead, working with D&R management and the Director of Knowledge, in assessing the future knowledge needs of D&R and leading further recruitment.

The UK D&R Practice Group handles a wide range of Commercial Litigation including International Arbitration, Property Litigation, Business Crime, Contentious Financial Regulation, Competition Disputes, Regulatory Disputes, Construction Disputes, IP Disputes, Restructuring and Insolvency, Crisis and Reputation Management, Mediation Investigations

Your role will include:

Key responsibilities

• Leading the development of the D&R Knowledge strategy.
• Building technical excellence and driving best practice professional support in the D&R Knowledge Team.
• Keeping the D&R lawyer team abreast of relevant legal and regulatory change; preparing and distributing reader-friendly and relevant internal updates and client publications.
• Organising knowledge sharing, including collecting and storing external and internal knowledge.
• Developing and helping deliver the D&R team's legal training programme.
• Developing and maintaining an up-to-date and technically excellent collection of D&R precedent documents.
• Dealing with queries from lawyers across D&R, the wider Firm and clients regarding current law and practice.
• Assisting in the preparation of client seminars and client training sessions and speaking at such seminars and sessions.
• Working alongside others to support innovation in the delivery of legal services.

ABOUT YOU

A lawyer with inter alia

• Strong theoretical, practical and up-to-date knowledge of Commercial Disputes law and regulation.
• Experience as professional support lawyer in a commercial law firm is ideal although the firm will consider exceptional candidates who have no previous professional support experience, provided that they have a demonstrable existing interest in knowledge best practice.
• A client-orientated approach with a good understanding of the use of knowledge to develop and support business development activities, preferably with prior experience of presenting to both individual client teams and at seminars and roundtables.
• Experience of managing a small team within a fast-paced and changing professional services environment is desirable but not essential; support on team management will be available to the individual.
• A good understanding of how technology, including products currently used by large law firms, can be used to drive productivity gains and cost efficiencies; and the importance of promoting efficient working processes.

Lipson Lloyd Jones Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.