Pensions Knowledge Development Lawyer / PSL

Overview

THE FIRM

A highly ranked UK and international law firm.

THE ROLE

The Pensions team which provides pensions advice to individuals and advice to employers and trustees operating overseas pension arrangements is looking to recruit a Knowledge Development Lawyer on a permanent basis.

The candidate should be engaged, have a strong interest in pensions know-how and want to be part of a high-performing Pensions Advisory Practise with a strong team ethos.

The aim of this role is to support the Pensions group in fulfilling their strategic objectives.

This is a wide ranging role and will involve, inter alia:

Responsibilities

• Technical legal expertise - Maintaining your own and the team's cutting-edge knowledge of law and practice as it relates to Pensions including keeping the team and other relevant practice groups up-to-date with legal and market developments through training.
• Client-facing activities - Working with partners and other fee earners to ensure relevant and appropriate legal developments are communicated to the firm's clients in a coherent, proactive and timely manner through drafting legal updates and briefings and coordinating client seminars.
• Legal training - Identifying relevant topics and training needs for the pension group and designing and presenting sessions
• Standard forms/precedents - Developing and maintaining key precedents and clause libraries for the pension group.
• Knowledge management - Working with the teams to implement procedures to capture, develop, store and maintain the know-how resources, including precedents/examples of previous advice, and helping to maintain user-friendly know-how banks.
• Know-how delivery systems - Developing and maintaining the team's intranet pages and social media presence; working with the Legal Information Officers to configure news aggregation tools so the appropriate underlying information sources are tailored for the pension group.
• Collaboration and innovation - Coordinating with other practice groups to arrange cross-departmental training and current awareness to keep the teams updated on relevant developments in other areas.
• Collaboration with BD - Working with the Business Development team to provide input on the legal aspects of pitch and other marketing documents.
• Precedents - Assisting with the maintenance of the standard form precedents and guidance notes in the Pension practice in order to keep them up to date.
• Know-how management - Assisting with the development, implementation and support for processes for efficiently gathering and updating know-how.
• Most of the firm's roles are hybrid, meaning that colleagues benefit from working in the office and at home.
• Flexible working arrangements can be discussed as part of the application and interview process.
• The firm is open to considering those on a part-time basis, for example 4 days with 2 days in the office.
• Otherwise, it is 3 days per week in office for full-time.
• Lipson Lloyd Jones Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.