About us
Knights is a listed, UK based legal and professional services business, operating from 30 locations nationwide.
For more than a decade, we have done things differently. In 2012, we established our platform as one of the first law firms to transition from a traditional partnership model to a corporate structure.
We work with a diverse range of clients, including global brands, FTSE 100 companies, private businesses, and individuals, to deliver professional services with speed, accessibility, and clear communication.
Knowledge Lawyer – Real Estate
Join our growing Knowledge team. We are seeking a technically excellent and strategically minded, insightful, and proactive Knowledge Lawyer to join our team, with specific responsibility for supporting and advancing our national Real Estate team which is one of the largest regional-based Real Estate legal teams in the country.
This is a key strategic and operational role that helps shape the quality, consistency, and efficiency of legal services delivery across the national business. You will be responsible for shaping and embedding best in class legal knowhow, supporting legal training enabling our fee earners to work more efficiently, consistently and collaboratively. You will lead on knowledge strategy, identify training and development requirements, manage internal precedents, and provide real-time legal insight. Working closely with fee earners, Business Services teams, and legal tech partners, you will help embed best practice, identify upskilling opportunities, and build resources that ensure excellence in client outcomes focused at all times on the business outcome of premium professional services delivery through speed of response, access to support and high quality timely and effective communication.
The successful candidate will also support external thought leadership, co-deliver seminars to clients, maintain professional memberships, oversee the onboarding of new team members, manage the team's library resources, and lead knowledge and process engagement.
You will be joining a collaborative and people-led environment where innovation, clarity, and premium service are central to how we work. This is a role suited to a confident communicator, natural organiser and legally skilled professional with a passion for continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
Key responsibilities:
- Legal and market insight – Tracking and interpreting legislative changes and market developments, ensuring the team remains well-informed and future-focused.
- Precedent management – Developing, maintaining, and enhancing internal templates, guides, drafting notes and checklists to support high-quality, consistent delivery.
- Library resource management – Overseeing and maintaining access to legal reference materials, databases, and journals relevant to real estate. Ensuring all team members can locate and use key texts efficiently, and managing subscriptions or licensing as required.
- Team development and upskilling – Identifying skills gaps and delivering training, workshops, and legal briefings to meet current and future needs. Collaborating with Learning & Development as needed.
- Onboarding – Managing, maintaining and developing the team-specific onboarding programme to embed legal, procedural and cultural expectations for new team members.
- Compliance and audit – Conducting regular file audits to ensure client work complies with operational standards, branding, process requirements and house style.
- Client insight and development – Working with Business Services colleagues to identify themes, co-create client seminar content, and help deliver sessions that showcase the team’s expertise and market understanding.
- Knowledge infrastructure – Supporting the development and application of systems that make legal knowledge easy to access, reuse, and build upon. Collaborating with the Management team to refine knowledge delivery.
- Professional memberships – Supporting the maintenance and value extraction from industry memberships, forums and networks.
- Cross-location leadership – Acting as a trusted and visible leader and ambassador for Knowledge across a region and for leading the Real Estate specific knowledge function nationally unifying and guiding professionals across 30 locations to embed consistent legal, procedural and service standards.
- Collaboration and support – Acting as a strategic resource to the leadership team, advising on risks, trends, and opportunities to improve service and operations.
- Client Services support – Ensuring that the team’s capability on the website, Hub (intranet) and team collateral is complete, up to date and that all colleagues’ profiles are maintained. Working closely with colleagues to provide details of the team’s sector expertise and capability for pitches and tenders as well as maintaining the team’s library of client testimonials.
What you will bring to the role
This role is ideal for a confident, organised and personable legal professional with a passion for knowledge sharing, development and legal service excellence. With ability to unite and influence a national team with warmth, quality and care whilst remaining engaged and operational in a fast-paced, people-centred environment.
- Legal expertise – A qualified lawyer with strong technical knowledge of Real Estate law and an appreciation of operational standards in legal service delivery.
- Training mindset – A proactive approach to developing people, with the ability to identify learning needs and deliver tailored sessions that support growth and quality.
- Knowledge management – Experience capturing, structuring, and evolving legal content and tools so they are current, accessible, and effective.
- Confident communicator – Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage confidently by telephone, video, and in person to build rapport and deliver insights.
- Technology-enabled – Familiar with knowledge systems and collaborative technology, whilst maintaining a relationship-first approach to support and delivery.
- Organised and efficient – Able to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and ensure consistency and clarity across all projects and resources.
- Brand and compliance aware – Committed to upholding the Knights tone, values, and regulatory standards across all documentation and client-facing work.
- Leadership reach – Ability to influence, support, and lead a national team across 30 locations, embedding consistent behaviours, processes, and legal excellence regardless of geography.
- Digital architecture – Maintaining and regularly updating the team’s community page on the firm’s intranet (‘The Hub’) and relevant sections of the external website to ensure content is current, engaging, and aligned with brand and communication standards.
Location: Any of our locations as a principal location with regular travel to our operational hub in Stoke and other locations.
If you would like to make a positive difference to your career, get in touch with our Recruitment Director, Tim Bates for a highly confidential and informative discussion about why Knights is different. Tim can be contacted on 07384 547616 or by email at tim.bates@knightsplc.com