Professional Support Lawyer - Charity

Professional Support Lawyer - Charity

Department: Charity & Social Enterprise

Employment Type: Part Time

Location: London

Description

The knowledge team within our market leading Charity and Social Enterprise practice group is recruiting a knowledge lawyer to join its friendly team of four experienced knowledge lawyers and a knowledge paralegal.

You will get involved in all aspects of our work - sharing knowledge via training and written updates, drafting and updating precedents and practice notes, helping partners and fee earners with technical queries and contributing to business development and policy work.

Key Responsibilities

• Update existing precedents and create new precedents
• Update existing Practice Notes and create new Practice Notes on specialist areas of law affecting our charity and social enterprise clients
• Maintain the charity and social enterprise section of the firm wide knowledge bank and contribute to strategies for improving know how sharing
• Disseminate knowledge via departmental know how meetings and other internal training sessions
• Provide high quality support to other fee earners by carrying out research and responding to queries
• Contribute to Bates Wells publications and external resources
• Participate in client events when required

Marketing and Business Development

• Contribute to newsletters and briefings for clients
• From time to time, deliver training to clients and write articles for external publication

Client relations

• Client contact will be limited to allow you to focus on knowledge, but when it occurs:
• Provide a high quality legal service to all Bates Wells clients
• Record any chargeable time

Personal development

• Participate in team meetings
• Attend internal training and external training as and when required
• Read journals and attend courses and conferences as part of continuing technical competence and to keep abreast of developments in the field of knowledge management
• Develop our Knowledge Paralegal by supervising them in elements of their work

About You

• An experienced charity lawyer, ideally with at least 5 years' PQE advising charities and social enterprises on charity law, company law and contracts
• High levels of technical ability, with experience providing detailed technical advice to fee earners
• Ability to draft precedents, maintain practice notes and produce written legal updates
• Willingness to devote time to detailed and accurate drafting of legal and explanatory content
• Experience managing know how and contributing to system and process improvements
• Clear and accessible communication skills, with the ability to prioritise a varied workload
• Self motivated, collaborative and client centric, with a genuine interest in the work we do and a positive problem solving approach

Benefits

• Progressive benefits: sustainable pensions, IVF support, private healthcare and a range of wellbeing and personal development benefits.
• Flexible and hybrid working: at least two office days per week in a hybrid model.