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Knowledge Lawyer (Maternity Cover)
Term: 12-month fixed-term maternity cover contract beginning in mid-August 2026.
Location: Hybrid working with some office attendance in London required.
Part time, 3 days per week – we are open to discussion as to how this would be structured.
About the Role
Supporting our Principal Knowledge Lawyer with the following tasks:
Team focused tasks
- Staying on top of relevant legal developments and communicating them to the team in a timely and accessible way.
- Updating existing precedents and guidance notes and preparing new ones as required.
- Promoting the contribution of know-how and adding contributions to the Knowledge area of our intranet.
- Assisting fee earners with technical and research queries in connection with their client matters.
- Devising, drafting and delivering technical training sessions to the team.
- Liaising with partners, other fee earners and Counsel on the delivery of training to the team and managing the training calendar for the year.
- Assisting with the management of our fortnightly know-how meetings.
- Assisting fee earners with identifying suitable external training sessions to meet their development needs.
- Identifying and implementing innovative approaches to help streamline our work and assisting with identifying and trialling new AI tools, software and other products.
- Working with the Partners and Head of Operations to ensure our firm’s compliance with new employment laws.
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Business development focused tasks
- Drafting articles and case summaries for our monthly client newsletter.
- Drafting commentary, articles and thought leadership pieces for external publications and media outlets.
- Devising, drafting and delivering client webinars.
- Assisting with the delivery of in-person client seminars and round table events.
- Drafting, preparing and delivering bespoke training sessions for clients (including for in-house lawyers, HR professionals and line managers).
- Drafting speaking notes, conference papers and slide decks for Partners speaking at external conferences.
- Drafting technical content for our website and keeping it up to date.
- Collaborating with our Head of Marketing to identify and deliver thought leadership opportunities and preparing content to support such initiatives.
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Essential Skills & Experience
- Excellent academic credentials.
- Admitted as a solicitor in the UK.
- Minimum 5 years post qualification experience as either a practising employment lawyer or knowledge lawyer.
- Excellent verbal and written English language skills.
- Excellent legal research and drafting skills.
- Experience of delivering training and presentations.
- Self-starter with strong time-management skills.
- Able to multi-task and move different projects along at the same time.
- Innovative and client-focused.
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