Banking Professional Support Lawyer London

Location: London
Salary: Highly Competitve-US Rates
Job Type: Permanent

Job Ref. Number:MM024

Job Title: Banking Professional Support Lawyer
Location: London
Salary: Highly Competitive-US Rates

The Company:

A leading international law firm with 12 offices located in major financial centers around the world, the firm had helped shape the globalisation of the legal profession for more than 60 years.
Their worldwide practice has a proven track record for innovation and providing work of the highest quality to meet the domestic and international needs of the firm’s clients.

Their clients include multinational corporations, international financial institutions, sovereign governments and their agencies, as well as domestic corporations and financial institutions in the countries where the firm’s offices are located. Although each of the firm’s 12 offices has its own practice, their “one firm” approach to the practice of law offers clients in any office the ability to access the full resources of all of their offices and lawyers worldwide to the extent their matters so require.

The Role:

The PSL’s main role will be in relation to current awareness, deal tracking, standard form documentation, practice notes and assisting in training initiatives. There will also be a role in client alerts and newsletters.

In more detail, it will include:

1 Know-how
• Conducting deal debriefs and devising the appropriate means of obtaining and collating the know-how and making it available as an internal resource on the firm’s intranet
• Reviewing external information sources to monitor current developments in the law and practice
• Collating and reporting on current developments (current awareness) for the internal fortnightly bulletin and other postings
• Preparing or co-ordinating the production of alert memos and other briefing notes reflecting the London office’s know-how expertise and other developments in law and practice for the lawyers in the firm and potentially for clients and contacts of the firm
• Participating in the practice group meetings and providing briefings as necessary.

2 Documentation
• Originating, developing and keeping up to date standard form documents covering the London office’s core activities
• Developing and keeping up to date practice notes, guidelines, checklists and other learning aids to support the standard form documents.

3 Training
• Participating in the provision of education and training to the lawyers by talks, briefing sessions, workshops and inter-office conferences to enhance the quality of legal advice given to clients and to enhance their understanding of a transaction, its legal technical components, the role of the lawyer and the objectives of clients in a commercial context
• Participating in the supervision and training given to trainees in the London office
• Participating in the development of other skills training for the lawyers in the London office.

The PSL will report directly to the Head of Legal Education in relation to know-how, standard form documentation and training and will work closely with the Director of Knowledge Management - Europe and Asia in relation to the firm’s IT knowledge management infrastructure and support. There are two Legal Information Specialists (who have a legal training) and part of the role will involve supervision of some of their work.

The position can be either full-time or part-time

The Successful Candidate:

The firm are looking to recruit a lawyer of upwards of 3 yrs pqe. The candidate need not have had prior PSL experience but should have practised as a lawyer in Capital Markets, M&A or Finance.

In the same way that they do for their associates, the firm are looking for outstanding academic credentials, a business like approach and the intellectual courage to venture into many different areas of practice.

The Benefits:

• Virgin Active gym membership
• BUPA private healthcare cover (personal and family)
• Life insurance of twice annual salary
• Long-term disability insurance
• Childcare vouchers
• Employee assistance programme
• Subsidised staff restaurant

NB: PQE levels are illustrative only and serve purely as a guide to candidates. Emerson Chase will welcome applications from individuals with more or less relevant experience than stated since such candidates may well be of interest to our clients.

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