Commercial & Data Lawyer

The team

RPC has a highly successful, award winning commercial and technology practice. We are top ranked in Chambers and Legal 500 2025 for Commercial Contracts, recognised for being an excellent, commercial and very creative team (Chambers 2025). A number of our lawyers are leaders in their field and handle a varied, dynamic and often high-profile workload for household name clients in multiple sectors.

The Knowledge & Legal Technology team at RPC plays a pivotal role in supporting the firm's reputation for excellence, innovation, and client service. Renowned for its collaborative culture and strategic vision, the team delivers best-in-class knowledge sharing and legal technology solutions that empower lawyers and business services professionals to work smarter and more efficiently.

We are committed to providing our people with opportunity, nurturing talent, and supporting career development within a collaborative and friendly environment.

Working on transformational projects, our brilliant commercial and technology lawyers handle the full spectrum of:

• IT and BPO outsourcings, including in the Financial services sector as well as numerous logistics outsourcings for both suppliers and customers in the retail & consumer sector
• IT transformation and other IT projects
• Digital
• Data protection
• Complex commercial contracts across a range of sectors

• Major global tech and digital companies
• Major global technology suppliers
• Major retailers and media organisations
• Major insurers and broker clients
• Smaller companies and start-ups across all sectors

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced Commercial Knowledge Lawyer, or a Commercial Lawyer seeking to transition from fee earning, to play a central role in shaping the knowledge, innovation and legal technology agenda across our Commercial, Technology Outsourcing (CTO), and Data & Cyber teams.

This role will provide strategic and practical expertise across a broad spectrum of practice areas, including commercial contracts, technology, outsourcing (with a particular focus on regulated outsourcings), advertising consumer, data privacy and protection, and non-contentious cyber matters.

The role blends the core responsibilities of a traditional Knowledge Lawyer with a strategic mandate to drive AI-enabled innovation, client-facing product development, and enhanced service delivery. You will support partners and lawyers across the practice in delivering market-leading, technology-enhanced legal services while also ensuring the teams maintain best-in-class knowledge management, precedents and training.

Working closely with the Associate Director, Knowledge & Legal Technology, collaborating with wider business services teams (Knowledge & Legal Technology, IT, Risk, BD) and with practice team leaders, you will identify and shape opportunities for new revenue streams through AI and legal-tech products and improve how we deliver our legal services.

This is a full-time role based in our London office. We are open to discussing flexible working arrangements during the application process.

• Translate the firm's strategic AI objectives into practical knowledge work streams and deliverables.
• Champion consistent AI capabilities and standards and identify and drive opportunities for cross-selling AI capability across practice areas and sectors.
• Identify and implement opportunities to leverage AI and legal technology to improve efficiency and enhance client delivery.
• Collaborate with partners, Knowledge Legal Technology, and BD teams to scope, design, and deliver client-facing technology and AI-enabled solutions.
• Act as subject matter lead for AI governance, safe use, and regulatory developments affecting AI deployment.
• Provide legal input into product design, testing, and deployment to ensure outputs are robust, compliant, and commercially viable.
• Design and refine AI-enabled solutions, playbooks, workflows, and knowledge assets (e.g. prompt libraries, model advisory notes, regulatory trackers) for internal and client use.
• Contribute to the firm's AI product roadmap by generating ideas rooted in client needs, legal risk, and market trends.
• Support the delivery of client pilots, demos, and proofs-of-concept.

• Produce high-quality thought leadership, long-form articles and market commentary relevant to commercial, technology, data protection, AI and cybersecurity, translating insights into actionable guidance for both clients and internal teams.
• Lead horizon scanning on regulatory, technological and industry developments, particularly AI-related legislation and guidance.
• Manage and contribute to newsletters (e.g. Data Dispatch, Snapshots) and short-form updates (e.g. Linked In posts, alerts).
• Represent the firm at external events, client round tables and industry forums where appropriate.

• Design, manage and deliver…