| Salary band | £50k - £75k |
|---|---|
| Salary details | N/A |
| Location | City |
| Job type | Permanent |
| Company | Law Staff Legal Recruitment Limited |
| Contact | William Fordham |
| Specialist Areas | Corporate/M&A |
| Posted | 28th Nov 2008 |
| Expires | 5th Dec 2008 |
We are currently looking for Professional Development Lawyer to work in our Corporate Department. Previous professional development experience is not necessary.
The Professional Development practice area is about technical excellence and ensuring our quality of service to clients. Top quality documentation, training and know-how means that our lawyers can focus on the client's needs. This ensures that clients receive a quality and efficient service, which is responsive, accurate and cost effective.
The type of work would involve some or all of the following.
Standard Documents
* Produce new and update existing standard documents making sure they are in the firm's house style and use the relevant boiler plate.
* Produce guidance notes/checklists for use by fee earners in connection with the above standard documents.
* Periodically review the company's standard documents against other firms' standard documents.
Information
* Produce and update practice briefing notes (notes explaining the firm's practice in a particular area of law) for internal use as appropriate.
* Ensure that fee earners are kept up-to-date with changes in the law and other relevant information, in particular, market information and know-how by contributing to update sessions and keeping the appropriate area of the know-how intranet up-to-date.
* Liaise with other professional development lawyers across the firm to ensure appropriate flow of information between offices/departments.
Training
* Contributing to the Corporate Department's training programme, including delivering training to fee earners/trainees and, where appropriate, clients.
Client Briefings
* Identify appropriate issues and produce entries for submission to publications/client distributions.
IT
* Ensure that all the relevant know-how is promptly profiled and noted on the firm's intranet. Promote Intranet usage by fee-earners including assisting fee-earners to locate know-how on the Intranet or any other similar systems. Assist with decisions as to which, if any, electronic external sources to take for your specialist area.
In-House Counsel Role
* Available to advise fee earners on matters of law and practice.
Essential skills
Candidates must have substantial transactional and/or pdl experience within a major City firm in the appropriate areas of expertise.
The candidate must be keen to work on all aspects of professional development work (drafting and updating of precedents, training and know-how) and their interest and ability should be demonstrable.
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