Knowledge & Development Lawyer Corporate Finance
Are you a highly skilled and knowledgeable corporate finance lawyer looking to develop others
Our awardwinning Corporate Finance team are recruiting a Knowledge and Development Lawyer responsible for creating implementing and supervising training at all fee earner levels ensuring that the team are up to date with all relevant legal developments and undertaking bespoke research tasks for transactional and nontransactional matters.
This role can be based in any of our offices in either Aberdeen Edinburgh or Glasgow and can take advantage of our hybrid approach to working flexibly from home and the office. The role is permanent and can accommodate full or part time hours (minimum 3 days per week).
The role will encompass all training needs principally arranging and where appropriate leading training at all fee earner levels; ensuring that lawyers are kept up to date with all relevant legal developments; undertaking bespoke research tasks for transactional and nontransaction matters and drafting and maintaining the precedents required by the Corporate Finance team. The role will also involve some firmwide training of trainees as part of our PEAT 2 programme.
The role will also be working alongside another KDL within the Corporate Finance team as well as the other KDLs in the firm to ensure sharing of information as required by other divisions as well as consistency of knowledge and excellence throughout the firm.
The KDL should be perceived as a valuable resource providing technical excellence in all knowledge management aspects of Corporate law. The successful candidate should be highly organised a motivated self starter and have the ability to build and maintain a good relationship with colleagues.
We are looking for a candidate who is comfortable presenting and training groups of lawyers with a flair for producing written materials.
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Burness Paull reserves the right to close this vacancy early if a sufficient number of applications are received for this role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.
Closing Date:
30 May 2025