Professional Support Lawyer

Step into a role at DWF that sits at the forefront of how modern legal knowledge is created, delivered, and transformed.

As a Professional Support Lawyer within our Finance & Restructuring practice, you’ll work closely with colleagues across the team to help shape, develop and share legal knowledge, ensuring our lawyers have access to high-quality, practical resources and insight.

You’ll also have the opportunity to explore AI and emerging legal technologies, helping us consider how these tools can enhance the way we create, curate and share knowledge. It’s a great opportunity to combine your technical legal expertise with innovation and play an active role in how the practice continues to evolve.

Your role will include developing and maintaining guidance notes and precedents, monitoring key legal and market developments across banking and finance, designing and delivering training, responding to queries from fee earners and identifying ways to continually improve the team’s knowledge processes and resources.

If you’re passionate about elevating legal excellence, driving innovation, and making a meaningful impact beyond traditional fee-earning, this is an opportunity to help lead the evolution of how we work and the value we deliver.

We’re flexible on UK location, with the opportunity to be based from any of our UK offices and work on a flexible, hybrid basis.

A PSL is required to undertake work in Knowledge Management Know How, Research and Development, and Training for our Clients. Below is an outline of the focus areas PSL's will be expected undertake.

• Identifying relevant cases and articles and disseminate to departments
• Updating the fee earning departments on key legal development
• Answering legal queries
• Identifying relevant consultation papers and preparing a response on behalf of the Firm
• Advising on use of AI tools

• Carrying out discrete research on points of law
• Collation and development of precedents, practice notes and working practices
• Producing and implementing procedures to help fee earners to achieve their goals, work efficiently, strive towards best practice in the delivery of legal services, comply with regulatory obligations and any practice/business management standards, etc.
• Advising management on legal and compliance issues in conjunction with the Risk Teams
• Managing or contributing to parts of the intranet and corporate site, information databases, online products and knowledge management systems in conjunction with Marketing and IT Teams.
• Innovation in research and development, process improvements/due diligence

• Identifying training needs
• Mentoring:
  Working with lawyers and other PSL's to influence, mentor and manage their production of evidence-led, impact-driven, authentic and timely legal content
• Organising in-house training sessions and workshops using internal and external trainers/speakers and advising on content, structure and required outcomes in conjunction with the L&D Team
• Delivering training sessions to lawyers, paralegals and administrative staff
• Producing training material

• Producing articles, briefings and newsletters to clients, and suggesting topics for fee earners
• Arrange client training
• Deliver client training
• Attending and giving talks at external conferences/seminars
• Working on bids, tenders and client audits

• Ideally at least 8 years' PQE as a solicitor, or equivalent experience, with a strong background in banking and finance law including areas such as acquisition and leveraged finance, structured finance, real estate finance, or restructuring and insolvency.
• Strong working knowledge of LMA documentation, with experience using and negotiating…