Practice Development Lawyer

Overview

Employment Senior Practice Development Lawyer (PDL) – 8+ years PQE

Birmingham / Manchester / Leeds / Edinburgh / Glasgow / Aberdeen / Belfast

We are excited to share a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Practice Development Lawyer to join our Employment team. We are happy to consider applicants for any of our UK offices, excluding London.

• You’ll work closely with our lawyers and directly with clients to deliver cutting-edge knowhow, training, and legal products.
• You’ll help shape and deliver strategic knowledge initiatives that make a real difference to our clients and our practice.
• You’ll have the opportunity to innovate, lead, and influence how we deliver value to clients.
• You’ll be part of a close-knit, collaborative PDL community across the firm.

We have an enthusiastic and experienced Employment PDL team and are looking to add to our team to prepare for the significant amount of legal change coming our way in future years.

The successful candidate will report to Sue Gilchrist, lead Employment PDL with a secondary line to Kate Dodd, partner.

This is a client-facing, solutions-focused role that sits at the heart of our knowledge strategy and our client relationships.

The firmwide PDL team is a close community across all practice areas and locations, ensuring that knowledge and best practice is shared across the firm’s international network.

Our Employment & Incentives Team is independently recognised as one of the best and most experienced teams in the UK.We have one of the best resourced teams of employment specialists of any law firm in the country, offering both national coverage from our UK offices and an international offering through our employment specialists in Europe, the Gulf, Asia Pacific and Australia.

We act as trusted advisor to leading FTSE blue chip organisations (both in the UK and internationally). Our clients rely upon us to help them not only with technical legal issues but also to act as true business partners, understanding the challenges and opportunities within their respective sectors and businesses.

We pride ourselves on being confident and commercially aware, pragmatic and responsive. We provide our clients with innovative commercial solutions, not merely details of the legal issues. We help our clients navigate their daily challenges and deliver their strategic objectives. We do not let employment law get in the way of our client's workforce management. Our approach has resulted in us developing long term relationships and partnerships with clients, many of whom are household names.

• A supportive and friendly working environment in a great team withteam with warmth, dedication and a passion for excellence.
• Autonomy, responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships with great clients.
• We are a market leading, dynamic and growing global team who work together to produce outstanding results for our clients.
• We invest in our team and have a fantastic training and career development programme, regular 121s, career discussions and appraisals.

To work as an integral member of the Employment PDL team, leading on delivery of high-quality knowhow, guidance, and training for Pinsent Masons lawyers and for clients.

To continue to build on the PDL team’s expertise and reputation, enabling our lawyers and clients, developing our practice, and building client relationships through :

• leading the tracking, creation and dissemination of technical and commercial intelligence to clients and lawyers, ensuring insights are timely, relevant and aligned with client priorities and sector developments.
• identifying and shaping innovative practices, products and resources, proactively spotting opportunities to enhance client service and internal efficiency, and driving their development and implementation across the team.
• owning and delivering strategic knowledge and client initiatives, working in close partnership with client teams and lawyers to ensure consistency, impact and alignment with firm-wide goals.
• collaborating with Advanced Delivery teams to enhance legal…