We are looking for a Knowledge Lawyer/Professional Support Lawyer to provide high quality knowledge support for our top-tier Corporate team.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an experienced and well-respected Knowledge team, working in a supportive and collegiate environment. It would suit both someone who was looking to move to their first knowledge role as well as those with previous experience of professional support wanting a high-profile role which is central to many areas of the Firm's work. You would be stepping into an established Knowledge function and working alongside other Corporate Knowledge Lawyers, as well as a wider Knowledge team.
We recognise the importance of flexibility, and flexible working arrangements are common across the Knowledge team and within the Practice Group. We are happy to discuss both formal working hours (full-time or part-time) and remote working arrangements for this opportunity.
The practice
The Corporate team handles a broad and diverse range of corporate work, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, emerging companies and venture capital, equity capital markets, joint ventures, corporate governance, and corporate reorganisations and simplifications. We focus on acting for clients driving transformational change across technology, media and telecommunications, energy and energy transition, and life sciences and healthcare, as well as financial services, mobility, retail and consumer, infrastructure, and the built environment. A number of the partners in the team are market leaders in these sectors and attract high profile and innovative mandates.
We act for a wide variety of clients, including large quoted companies, privately owned businesses and their shareholders, private equity and venture capital firms, banks, financial institutions and institutional investors..
The opportunity
Knowledge is at the heart of Osborne Clarke's strategy, and you will be a key member of an innovative and purposeful Knowledge team. You will provide dynamic, technically excellent and business-focused support to the Corporate team, implementing best practice professional support within a fast-growing part of our business.
You will work collaboratively with the existing Corporate Knowledge Lawyers, the Corporate Partners and other members of the Knowledge team as well as sales and marketing professionals and Partners in other parts of the firm. You will carry out your responsibilities with the support of your line manager - the Head of Business Transactions Group Knowledge - and dedicated paralegal, PA and training administration support.
Like all our people, you will benefit from our multi-award winning development programme so that you are well supported and developed in your role to build a career in Knowledge.
Key Responsibilities
As a Corporate Knowledge Lawyer you will:
- keep the Corporate and wider team up-to-date on relevant legal and regulatory change across the team's practice, including producing reader-friendly internal updates on relevant developments;
- deliver and facilitate engaging legal training and know-how sharing;
- develop and maintain a technically excellent collection of template documents;
- proactively support the use of AI tools and other technology relevant to Corporate work and be an enthusiastic champion of technology to deliver client service;
- driving a consistent client knowledge offering including insights, horizon-scanning, multi-jurisdictional overviews and client seminars, workshops and webinars as part of the team's overall business development activities;
- address queries from lawyers and clients regarding current law and practice;
- work collaboratively with the existing Corporate Knowledge Lawyers; and
- input into and helping to deliver the Corporate team and Osborne Clarke Knowledge strategy.
Skills And Experience
You will have an excellent knowledge of law, regulation and practice across a range of corporate transaction types.
You will have an ability to present information clearly - both in writing and when speaking. You will be a pro-active self-starter with excellent organisational skills.
Due to the technical nature of the work, we are looking for someone who is legally-qualified with relevant post-graduate experience. You may be a fee-earning lawyer in private practice or working within the legal team of a business, in academia or in a knowledge role elsewhere, or returning to work after a career break.
If you are unsure whether your qualifications and experience are right for the role, please do contact us - we are always happy to have informal conversations with people who would like to join our team.
We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.
Our recruitment process
Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.
We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.