Senior Knowledge Lawyer

The Role

Legal & Regulatory Knowledge Management

• Proactively monitor analyse and summarise legislative and regulatory developments across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia including guidance from key regulatory authorities.
• Lead the dissemination of critical updates to fee-earners and practice groups ensuring relevance and clarity.
• Conduct in-depth legal research and produce high-quality internal briefings analysis and strategic insight reports.
• Maintain and enhance local knowledge repositories and intranet pages to ensure timely access to relevant knowhow.
• Drive the categorisation curation and uploading of knowledge materials into global knowledge platforms (e.g. Bound Volumes ACKCs).

Training & Induction

• Design and deliver legal inductions for all new joiners including lawyers trainees and secondees in Riyadh.
• Identify training needs and implement bespoke legal and regulatory training for internal teams and where appropriate external clients.
• Partner with the global Clifford Chance Academy team to ensure Riyadh lawyers are integrated into firm-wide learning programmes.
• Oversee and facilitate monthly regulatory update and in-depth sessions coordinating closely with partners. Identify training requirements and deliver tailored legal and regulatory training for lawyers

Templates Precedents & Tools

• Take ownership of developing maintaining and updating Saudi law-specific templates standard form documents and practice notes in collaboration with the wider fee earner teams
• Ensure consistency quality and accessibility of legal documentation across practice areas.
• Support the development of checklists toolkits and knowhow to drive efficiency and legal excellence

Thought Leadership & Strategic Initiatives

• Collaborate on global and regional thought leadership initiatives including newsletters legal briefings ESG FinTech Hydrogen and other emerging legal trends.
• Author or contribute to client publications white papers and internal legal horizon scanning pieces relevant to the Saudi market.
• Play an active role in global knowledge transformation projects such as Knowledge Reimagined.

Collaboration & Advisory Support

• Act as a trusted legal advisor and internal consultant to lawyers across the Riyadh office supporting transactional work with technical legal insight.
• Respond to complex legal or knowledge queries and escalate matters when required.
• Build strong relationships with Knowledge & Information (K&I) teams across the Middle East and Clifford Chances global network.
• Support knowledge infrastructure growth including library services and legal content subscriptions in KSA.

Qualifications :

Your Experience

Skills & Experience

• Qualified lawyer with at least 46 years of post-qualification experience ideally gained within an international law firm or a top-tier legal environment.
• A strong grounding in one or more of AS&H Clifford Chances core practice areas including corporate/M&A general banking Islamic finance or capital markets is desirable
• Demonstrated ability to analyse and communicate complex Saudi Arabian legal and regulatory developments.
• Proven experience in legal research drafting training or professional support work.
• Exceptional communication organisational and stakeholder management skills.
• A collaborative proactive and solutions-focused approach to legal operations and knowledge sharin

Qualifications

• Law degree and strong academic credentials are essential.
• Fluency in English (spoken and written) is required.
• Proficiency in Arabic is highly desirable.

Key Attractions

• You will be joining AS&H Clifford Chance the market-leading law firm in Saudi Arabia.
• Be part of a high-performing and innovative K&I team with access to global best practices.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders and contribute directly to the strategic development of our KSA knowledge infrastructure.
• Gain exposure across practice areas and global knowledge initiatives.
• Access to the firms award-winning global learning and development platform the Clifford Chance Academy.

Additional Information :

Equal Opportunities

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Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm. 

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