In this seat, you will discover how we identify and share best practices and legal knowledge, as well as how we provide the on-going training and support to both our legal teams and our business services colleagues that enable them to deliver world-class solutions to legal challenges.

Here are some examples of the work you will be involved in and an overview of what the team does:

Delivering the firm’s learning initiatives and supporting career growth through structured learning pathways and development opportunities:

  • Coordinating legal training for our lawyers and skills-based and IT training for all employees
  • Liaising with internal and external speakers, schedule dates with speakers, and book rooms and facilities
  • Preparing material for training
  • Providing coaching and mentoring opportunities for performance, development and periods of transition (such as promotion, qualification and family leave).
  • Collating a variety of L&D statistics and reports to be shared with key stakeholders

Overseeing the systems and approaches that enable the firm’s legal teams to share knowledge and identify best legal practice:

  • Overseeing knowledge maintenance projects
  • Assisting with Knowledge Management system updates as part of a joint project team
  • Providing the management of KM reporting, such as the Know-How Capture report, Associate Appraisal reports, Know-How competition statistics

Supporting a broad range of research and knowledge management activity across the firm, in addition to providing current awareness services and supporting resource and library management related tasks:

  • Providing support to the central Enquiries Desk, answering a broad range of research requests (full training will be provided)
  • Supporting a broad range of ongoing and planned project work across the team
  • Providing support for the digitisation of key resources in areas such as Tax and Pensions
  • Carrying out library audit and collection reviews
  • Supporting data cleansing tasks
  • Maintaining library collections around the firm, including reorganising them as appropriate
  • Responsible for a wide range of intranet pages, ensuring they are updated and have impactful design