Employer: Norton Rose Fulbright LLP Salary: Date Added: 22/06/2023
Practice Group / Department:
Knowledge Banking – London
Job Description
We’re Norton Rose Fulbright – a global law firm with over 50 offices and 7,000 employees worldwide. We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. As well as the relevant skills and experience, we’re looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do. To attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realize their full career potential. We value difference and actively promote a culture of respect for each individual, encouraging and creating inclusion. Our new hybrid working model allows our people to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work from both the office and a remote location, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and provide access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people’s health and overall wellbeing.
Our London office is currently recruiting for Senior Knowledge Lawyer. As well as the relevant skills and experience, we’re looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do. We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view and believe diversity drives innovation, so we’re building a culture where difference is valued.
The Role
We are recruiting a Senior Knowledge Lawyer to support the EINR and Projects groups. The focus of the role will be project finance, project contracts, power, renewables and decarbonisation of heat, industry and transport.
Key Responsibilities
Drafting material for external or internal publications and identifying topics of interest and likely candidates for articles
Carrying out analysis of latest developments in the areas of focus of the role and ensuring dissemination of knowledge, internally and externally
Providing knowledge support to business development initiatives, including supporting client campaigns and initiatives
Advising lawyers and discussing the legal issues which they face in their transactions and matters (including structuring advice), and providing assistance to lawyers in their research
Maintaining existing precedents and drafting new precedents, especially in those areas which are document intensive
Maintaining existing practice notes, drafting new practice notes and assisting in their drafting
Planning, organising, preparing and delivering legal and industry focused training to trainees, fee-earners and clients
Supporting strategy and business group meetings and taking an active role in supporting the activities of those groups
Promoting the use of and keeping up to date systems for knowledge collection and dissemination (research notes, transactional documents / bibles, training material etc.)
Supporting the delivery of the central knowledge strategy, including relevant departmental and pillar strategies
Managing and implementing the relevant team Knowledge Plan(s) and the Knowledge Investment Hours policy
Skills and Experience Required
Qualified lawyer with significant legal experience in project finance
Project finance and project contract negotiation experience required
Experience in drafting in plain language and in English
Experience in designing and delivering successful, interesting and innovative training programmes, targeted at the audience
Ability to work with a variety of personalities across all levels of the organisation
Experience in or interest in the collation, storage and delivery of knowledge
Project management experience and demonstrated creativity in problem solving
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Excellent legal research skills
Our clients come first and whilst we have a high performance culture and work hard as a team, in return we offer range of competitive benefits including:
25 days hols + Bank hols – Buy up to 5 days
GP Service
Bupa Healthcare
Pension
Flexible working
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
To attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realize their full career potential.
Our new enabled work model allows our people to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work from both the office and a remote location, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and provide access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people’s health and overall wellbeing. Find more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion here.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We can make tailored adjustments to our application process to ensure that you have the best chance of success by working with you individually to understand more about your requirements. Please contact our Recruitment team on
