Our Employment Team is recognised for its practical, commercially-focused support for clients across a range of sectors. We are looking for a talented individual to join our team as a Training and Knowledge Lawyer.
This is an excellent opportunity to blend technical legal expertise with business development and client engagement. You will play a pivotal role in maintaining and advancing our team’s knowledge base, ensuring our clients and colleagues benefit from cutting-edge advice and training in employment law.
If you have a passion for delivering high-quality legal services, enjoy building relationships, and want to be part of a forward-thinking team, we’d love to hear from you.
This is a part-time role, which we envisage as three days per week.
Work type
Professional Support:
- Manage and maintain Employment Team Knowledge Library and Precedents.
- Stay up to date with legal developments and best practices, ensuring the team’s knowledge library and documents are current and comprehensive.
- Regularly review the need for new or updated documents.
- Identify gaps in the team’s precedents, propose new ones as needed, and take the lead in creating them.
- Monitor legal developments in employment law and update and train the team regularly.
- Co-ordinate internal team training and organise training sessions with external providers and highlight practice points and knowledge to ensure consistency of advice.
- Conduct legal research as required.
Training:
- Co-ordinate client training, devise training courses and produce training materials for bespoke client training including notes for presenters on employment law matters.
- Present training for clients and targets and devise and conduct public training courses as required.
- In conjunction with the Partners, develop sales strategy for training products for the Employment Team.
- Actively identify opportunities to sell training products and proactively anticipate and devise appropriate new training courses based on new legislation/ opportunities.
- In conjunction with the Partners, co-ordinate the webinar program and prepare and host webinars/ podcasts and materials, including presenting webinars and in person events on employment law issues.
- Prepare and co-ordinate online newsletters for the Employment Team and other publications including PR opportunities.
- Continue to develop relationships and run webinars and events with accountants and other referrers.
- Prepare quarterly update as required for clients and prospects on employment law.
- Horizon scan and update team on matters relevant to sectors in which clients operate.
Experience/ Attributes required
- Ability to work unsupervised.
- Supports strategic direction of the firm.
- Excellent business development and marketing skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Confident and excellent presentation skills.
- Ability to be proactive, dynamic and engaging and develop personal and team profile and expertise.
- Ability to explain complex matters clearly and credibly to external stakeholders.
- Be able to research and apply knowledge to work in progress.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Responsibilities & tasks
- To maintain and develop business relationships with clients
- To promote the team’s services and identify opportunities to sell these and training products
- To keep up to date with current literature, publications and circulars and bring to the attention of other members of your team relevant news and developments.
- Ensure file management, and administration are kept up to date
- Keep up to date price list for quotes and policies and training
- Drive regular LinkedIn activity, inspiring and supporting others to share content and engage
- Seek to broaden network and client base, training clients and webinar attendees
- Encourage and support team to engage with BD strategy and provide suggestions on networking events, internal and external. Work with marketing to co-ordinate support and meet team development needs.
- Assist with updating website copy when required.
- To work effectively on your own and in a team
- To work in excess of normal working hours where it proves necessary, in the interests of the Firm or those of our clients.
Benefits
- 25 days holiday
- Pension scheme
- Life Assurance 5 x final salary
- Private medical insurance
- Flexible Hybrid working
- An additional days holiday for your birthday
- A weekly wellbeing hour
- 8 hour per annum charity work
- Cycle to work scheme
- Bring your dog to work
- Social committee events
- Season ticket travel loan
- Eligible to purchase an additional five days holiday
Team structure
- 4 x Partners
- 1 x Head of Immigration
- 1 x Senior Associate Solicitors
- 2 x Associate Solicitor
- 2 x Solicitor
- 1 x Chartered legal executive
- 2 x Paralegals
- 4 x Secretaries