Training and Knowledge Lawyer – Employment

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

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