Business Group Lawyer - Corporate and Commercial

The Business Group Knowledge Lawyer (BGKL) is a senior lawyer role who will report directly into the Business Group Head (BGH) for our Corporate and Commercial Services Business Group (CCS). You will be part of a team of two knowledge lawyers and a knowledge paralegal who will work with the BGH.

In this role you will work strategically with the BGH to help deliver key knowledge and innovation priorities for the Business Group. This will include:

• supporting the lawyers in the Business Group responsible for technical excellence in their area of expertise, including supporting on training and promoting a culture of excellence
• playing a leading role in developing and promoting innovation in the Business Group, including developing and promoting the use of our self-service legal technology toolkit and acting as the subject matter expert for legal technology tools that are specific to the Business Group
• supporting on the preparation and, where appropriate, delivery of client facing knowledge-led content.

The Business Group covers a broad range of specialist corporate and commercial legal areas, carried on through a number of teams. There is no expectation that this role requires you to be a subject matter expert for every specialism within the Business Group, although a strong grounding in Digital and Technology law and practice will be particularly advantageous, both in terms of supporting the specialist lawyers in that area but also holding a strong interest and understanding in the opportunities that technology presents for the Business Group and its clients.

You will work with the BGH, team leaders and the wider Business Group Knowledge Team to:

• drive a culture of excellence and continuous development of the Business Group's legal knowledge
• facilitate an environment where teams and individual lawyers feel empowered to play a key role in developing their own knowledge and can see the value in doing so
• ensure the adoption of processes to support early-stage talent development and that the wider Business Group is kept up to date with new legal developments, risk and best practice updates and new ways of working
• support in the preparation and, where appropriate, delivery of knowledge-led value add training for the Business Group's clients.

In addition, you will work with the Chief Innovation Officer (and the wider Innovation & Legal Technology Team) to support the adoption of legal technology, drive innovation, and identify more effective ways of delivering legal services.

• Continuous improvement of each team's processes for developing legal knowledge ensuring consistency and best practice across all teams.
• Supporting the lawyers in the Business Group responsible for technical excellence in their area of expertise, with a particular focus on Digital and Technology law and practice.
• Manage training and development of legal knowledge for early-stage talent, along with wider current awareness in respect of risk, working practices and legal updates for the broader Business Group.
• Promote development across the teams through our third-party content and related tools.
• Play a key role in promoting the use of AI and our self-service legal technology toolkit acting as the subject matter expert for legal technology tools that are specific to the Business Group.
• Work closely with the wider Business Group Knowledge Team, particularly ensuring that the Knowledge Team's paralegal support is effectively supervised and developed.
• Supporting in responding to tender questions relating specifically to knowledge management and innovation in the Business Group.
• Work with our business development teams in terms of horizon scanning and innovation…