Pensions Lawyer​/Senior Lawyer

Pensions Knowledge Lawyer / Senior Knowledge Lawyer

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We are looking for a Knowledge Lawyer or Senior Knowledge Lawyer to provide dedicated further Knowledge support for our highly regarded Pensions team. This is a part‑time, three days a week role. You can be based at any of our offices (London, Reading or Bristol) and will benefit from the Firm's connected working policy.

The Pensions Team advises employers, trustees and local authorities in order to help them run their pension schemes compliantly, while managing risks. The Pensions Team also runs one of the UK’s leading independent trustee companies, Open Trustees, so has direct experience of operating pension schemes.

• Risk reduction and risk transfer exercises (such as buy‑ins, buy‑outs and alternative funding arrangements).
• Pension Protection Fund (PPF) assessment periods, insolvency‐related pension issues and regulatory compliance.
• The Local Government Pension Scheme (authority, employer and contractor issues).
• The pensions aspects of corporate acquisitions and disposals, scheme mergers, government outsourcings, insolvencies, restructurings and wind‑ups.
• Emerging defined contribution schemes.

The team is also involved (alongside Osborne Clarke’s Disputes and Resolution team) in acting for employers, trustees and representative beneficiaries on complex litigation claims, including professional negligence and Part 8 claims.

The Pensions Team currently consists of 7 partners and 21 other fee earners and professionals.

Knowledge is at the heart of Osborne Clarke’s strategy, and you will join an innovative, market‑leading and highly supportive Pensions Team and wider Knowledge Team. The Pensions Team sits within our Advisory Practice Group. This role’s principal purpose is to provide dynamic, technically excellent, business and client‑focused support to the Pensions team. You will work closely with our Pensions Knowledge Lawyer Director, the Pensions Partners, the Head of Advisory Knowledge and other members of the Knowledge Team as well as sales and marketing professionals.

• Keep the Pensions Team up‑to‑date on legal and regulatory changes across the team’s practice, including producing a comprehensive regular Pensions Knowledge News Update and reader‑friendly internal updates on relevant developments.
• Organise the delivery of legal training, deliver legal training and facilitate know‑how sharing.
• Understand and promote AI applications and other technology to the work of the Pensions Team, including its risk management and processes.
• Maintain and expand a technically excellent collection of precedent documents, designed with our clients and excellent client service in mind.
• Assist in the preparation and delivery of client‑facing presentations, seminars and workshops, including preparation of presentation content for lawyer speakers.
• Prepare client‑facing publications on developments with a client impact, including targeting and placing content in Pensions journals and/or other publications.
• Deal with queries from lawyers across the firm regarding current Pensions law and practice.
• Lead the Pensions Team’s response, where relevant, to government consultations on new or amended Pensions law.

Strong technical capability in relation to Pensions law and regulation that affect businesses and the application of it to real‑life business issues. Recent experience of risk reduction and risk transfer exercises (such as buy‑ins and buy‑outs) is helpful.

Due to the technical nature of the work, we are looking for someone who is legally qualified with a solid foundation of post‑qualification experience in Pensions. You may currently be a fee‑earning lawyer in private practice or working within the legal team of a business, in academia or in a knowledge role elsewhere, or returning to work after a career break.

Ability to present information clearly and confidently to internal and external audiences – both in writing and when speaking.

Pro‑active self‑starter with excellent organisational skills, high level of technical accuracy, and strong collaboration skills…