Professional Support Lawyer - Data Protection

The opportunity

We are looking for a Professional Support Lawyer (PSL) to join our established Data Protection team in London. The successful candidate would ideally be an experienced Data Protection lawyer of at least Senior Associate level or equivalent with strong UK and European law experience across a wide spectrum of matters at an international firm.

What youll do

• To keep and have responsibility for keeping the London data protection team on top of relevant legal changes (case law/statutory developments and future issues) including wider digital regulation of relevance to our clients
• To play an integral part in getting our precedents up to date and maintaining them to anticipate or respond to market or legal developments
• To organise knowhow sharing (including collecting external and internal know how and making it accessible)
• To assist in the preparation of client seminars and client training sessions
• To manage and help in authoring client publications and bulletins
• To work and collaborate with our fee earners plus marketing and business development support teams on the legal aspects of our marketing materials/ initiatives and client updates in relation to existing and prospective UK and international clients
• Consideration and assistance in the development of technology solutions to improve efficiency and the fee earner experience
• To deal with queries from the team about current law and practice
• To research and analyse developments and identify key commercial issues for clients
• Assistance with transaction debriefing to extract relevant knowhow
• To familiarise new trainees and associates with our knowhow resources and precedents
• Providing trainees with a basic introduction to the types of work they will be exposed to during their employment seats
• Speak regularly with other PSLstyle lawyers globally to ensure good practice and knowhow is shared and activities are coordinated across departments and teams where appropriate

Your technical skills and experience

• Strong theoretical practical and up to date knowledge of UK and European Data Protection law with suitable post qualification fee earning experience with a leading law firm or in house
• Experience in other overlapping areas of digital regulation (DMA DSA Data Act AIA NIS2 desirable but not essential
• Understanding of client demands in terms of technical knowledge and method of delivery
• Excellent legal drafting skills ability to present technical legal issues and case developments in a clear approachable and professional way.
• Clientorientated and international approach ability to think laterally and to develop ideas in relation to business opportunities and training
• Use of initiative to apply experience to the benefit of the team and the wider firm
• Highly competent in Word Excel and PPT
• Prior PSL experience not essential but good understanding of how a large (preferably international) law firms knowledge functions operate is an advantage
• Applicants who wish to work part time will be considered
• Role to report primarily to Ruth Boardman and other partners in the London Data Protection team.

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