Employment Knowledge Lawyer
Employment Knowledge Lawyer
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Job Description
Direct applications only no agency introductions will be accepted.
About us
Linklaters is a leading international law firm with 30 offices in 20 countries worldwide. Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this by fostering a positive supportive and innovative culture with opportunities for our talent to thrive.
We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team with a common goal.
The work we do as a practice within the London Employment & Incentives team either makes the headlines or is too confidential to make them. It is high-profile technical and often very sensitive. It gives us access to the most senior people at clients and their stakeholders including Chairs executives and General Counsel.
The practice has a dedicated team for employment and employee particular the Employment practice has a dedicated team of Knowledge Lawyers comprising a Senior Practice Development Lawyer and Managing Associate Knowledge Lawyer (in addition to this role). We also have dedicated marketing advisors to support on external and client-facing projects and materials.
Our team is innovative and creative in its thought leadership knowledge-sharing and learning both internally and in external and client-facing materials.
Know-how and knowledge sharing across the team is a highly valued and respected part of our practice. We hold weekly know-how meetings as a team which are highly regarded well-attended and engaging.
About you
- You have at least 6 years relevant employment post-qualification experience either as a fee-earner or a Knowledge Lawyer/PSL (for overseas-qualified lawyers this would be after any adjustment to account for the UK two-year training).
- You have strong organisational and project management skills and can manage multiple matters proactively both independently and as part of a team.
- You want to work in a team which is collaborative respectful and supportive with an appetite for technical excellence cutting-edge mandates creative thought leadership and entrepreneurial business development.
- You have excellent technical skills including drafting and legal analysis which can be applied to maintaining and producing precedents and thought leadership material.
- You have an ability to follow and synthesize legal and regulatory developments and issues and are able to develop know-how and training on practical and commercial application of such issues.
- You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills with an ability to work as part of a team and collaborate well with others.
- You have excellent problem-solving skills and an ability to apply law and regulation in a practical way to real-life scenarios.
- You are an engaging speaker with the ability to deliver training clearly precisely and at a level matched to that of the audience.
- You have an interest in know-how systems and a willingness to engage with new technologies and applications.
Your role
This role is offered on a part-time basis three or four days per week and will involve working with colleagues across both sides of the team but with a specific focus on the Employment practice.
You would be working alongside some of the most entrepreneurial intelligent and commercially attuned employment lawyers in the UK market as well as with our colleagues across the world and in other specialist areas.
Your primary focus will be to support the Employment practice in all areas of know-how and learning including:
- identifying and monitoring key legal regulatory and commercial developments.
- responsibility for delivering weekly training to the Employment team together with the other Knowledge Lawyers.
- providing guidance and updates on legal and regulatory issues and developments including contributing to practice area newsletters and resources.
- developing managing and disseminating commercially useful precedents memoranda presentations and training materials.
- identifying developments of particular interest to clients and producing and updating client materials with commentary and analysis.
- responding to queries from lawyers across the global practice.
- supervising trainees on know-how tasks and working with associates on their knowledge and learning contributions.
- enhancing and developing new mechanisms for capturing sharing and communicating know-how.
- representing Linklaters at industry working groups and conferences.
In addition this role also provides the opportunity to get involved in the firms development and our teams adoption of AI and emerging technologies in the legal sector.
What sets us apart
- Market opportunity. We offer the opportunity to be part of a team involved in strategic cutting-edge and market-leading projects and mandates that make the headlines and shape the future world of work.
- Our talent. We are a close-knit and supportive team comprising the best people in the market across technical capability and entrepreneurial skill. Having got the best people we strive to make them feel included valued and respected so they can perform at their best and in turn foster a culture of mutual respect and support which is reflected in the long tenure of many of our senior team members and our Knowledge Lawyers.
- Continued learning. Our team continuously learns. We advocate mutual knowledge sharing and have a dedicated team of lawyers within the practice who design tailored and bespoke knowledge sharing sessions across technical and business development areas.
- Creative thought leadership. Our team strives to be different and at the forefront of the business world which is reflected in our innovative external thought leadership. See our EmploymentLinks blog podcast page and Diversity Faculty webpage and Diversity blog for examples.
- Trust and autonomy. We provide agile workingsolutions to meet the changing needs of our people and our business.
- We invest in developing leaders of the futurewho demonstrate emotional intelligence and a passion to discover coach and develop the talents of others.
- As a firm we advocate speak-up cultureto empower our people in sharing their voices and an open-door policyto ensure they are listened to.
- We belong to a firm that embodies its corporate social environment and governanceresponsibility commitments and supports the health and wellbeing of its people.
Our commitment to you/Linklaters
We are an entrepreneurial and collaborative practice committed to providing our colleagues with the support and training they need to maximise their potential career profile and growth.
We are a close-knit team and place great value on working together in a positive supportive fair and open working environment. We respect each other and value diversity of thought and insist on inclusivity.
You will be challenged motivated mentored and supported in the development of your career and given access to professional learning and skills-based programmes aimed at providing you with the tools to meet your career ambitions.
Please note that we are unable to accept agency introductions for this role. Agency CVs will be immediately declined and deleted in accordance with our data privacy obligations and shall not impact our ability to directly source the individual for this role.
Technical Skills
This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this job. As such the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.
Application Policy
Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) areonlyaccepted online via the related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team andnotthe partners practices or stakeholders (forlegal rolesorforbusiness team roles).
Employment Type
Full Time
