Practice Development Lawyer - Global Funds

Cleary Gottlieb is a pioneer in globalizing the legal profession. We have 14 offices in major financial centers around the world, but we operate as a single, integrated global partnership and not as a U.S. firm with a network of overseas locations. The firm employs approximately 1,100 lawyers from more than 50 countries.

Since 1946 our lawyers and staff have worked across practices, industries, jurisdictions, and continents to provide clients with simple, actionable approaches to their most complex legal and business challenges, whether domestic or international. We support every client relationship with intellectual agility, commercial acumen, and a human touch.

The Practice Development Lawyer (“PDL”) is a key knowledge, training, and practice support resource for the Global Funds group. The PDL maintains core forms, precedents, research resources, and information channels; supports adoption of legal technology and AI-enabled workflows; and helps ensure the group’s knowledge infrastructure reflects current law, market practice, and client needs. The PDL also contributes substantive funds expertise to training, thought leadership, business development, and attorney development initiatives.

• Maintain the Global Funds group’s library of forms, precedents, checklists, research resources, practice guides, and other work tools, including AI and tech precedent databases (such as Hebbia and ProVisionAI), ensuring materials remain current, practical, and easy to use.
• Work with attorneys to identify priorities for new and updated knowledge resources, establish review cycles, and execute refresh projects.
• Administer and improve the group’s internal knowledge channels, including practice sites, intranet pages, email distributions, and successor platforms.
• Lead evaluation and testing of new legal KM and AI vendors and technology providers, including AI and tech precedent databases (such as Hebbia and ProVisionAI), assessing output quality and identifying substantive use cases and limitations.
• Serve as the group’s legal quality-check resource for AI-assisted workflows, reviewing outputs for accuracy, identifying gaps, and refining prompts and processes.
• Support attorney adoption of legal KM and AI tools through hands-on guidance, training, and ongoing workflow support.

• Monitor federal, state, and international regulatory, legislative, and market developments relevant to Global Funds clients, alongside the Private Funds Specialist.
• Participate in drafting client alerts, articles, legal updates, and other thought leadership materials, including the group’s quarterly client publication, and coordinate publication with Business Development.

• Co-lead the planning and delivery of Global Funds group training, including first-year training, onboarding, response-to-demand sessions, group wide CLEs, and other substantive or skills-focused programs.
• Serve as a day-to-day resource for associates on locating, interpreting, and applying research resources, Global Funds group forms, precedents, and knowledge materials.
• Support associate development in coordination with Learning & Development and Associate Development, including onboarding, skills development, staffing context, and associate support initiatives.

• Collaborate with the Business Development team to support pitches, RFP responses, client meeting materials, external presentations, partner speaking materials, and substantive talking points.
• Develop and review Global Funds client materials, conference content, and practice credentials in coordination with Business Development and attorneys.
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