Business Group Lawyer Job Edinburgh area,City of Edinburgh Scotland UK,Law/Legal

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.

What does the role include?

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.

What are the core responsibilities and deliverables?

Drive continuous improvement of legal knowledge processes, ensuring consistency and best practice across teams.
Support technical excellence within the Business Group, with a particular focus on Digital and Technology law.
Lead legal knowledge training and development for early-career talent and promote current awareness of legal, risk and practice developments across the group.
Maximise the value of third-party knowledge resources and tools to support team development.
Champion the use of AI and self-service legal technology solutions, acting as the Business Group's legal technology SME.
Collaborate with the wider Knowledge Team, including overseeing and developing paralegal support.
Contribute to tenders by providing expertise on knowledge management and innovation.
Work with business development teams on horizon scanning and emerging trends to identify opportunities for client training, thought leadership and innovative solutions.
Support the development and delivery of client-facing knowledge content

What does the ideal candidate look like?

You'll need to have strong…