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Job Description

Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm with more than 3,000 lawyers advising clients across locations in the United States, Europe, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East. We provide a full scope of legal services to the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions.

Our vision is to be a world class business, profitable, ambitious, cooperative and considerate, supporting our clients and people through our global business principles of Quality, Unity and Integrity.

With over 7,000 employees worldwide, our culture is the thread that connects us. Our strategy and culture are closed connected – defined by shared ambition, global collaboration and a one-team mindset. We believe pioneering work happens when people are empowered to think beyond boundaries, explore new opportunities and grow through diverse experiences. Alongside the right skills and experience, we are looking for people who are innovative, commercially minded, and motivated by the impact of the work they do – ready to share in our ambition and help shape what comes next.

Because while individuals can do well, together we achieve something extraordinary.

The Team

Knowledge plays a critical strategic role at Norton Rose Fulbright, ensuring that every client in every matter benefits from the collective knowledge and experience of the whole organisation.  Senior management are committed to the vision of making the contributing and sharing of knowledge a core part of the firm’s culture and every person in it, in the belief that how we use our knowledge is key to business growth and client care.

Norton Rose Fulbright has a team of knowledge professionals dedicated to the standards, sharing and systems that will help us achieve this goal across the whole organisation. This includes knowledge lawyers, knowledge managers, library and information experts and systems specialists.

Our UK financial services and regulation practice based in London helps our clients navigate the evolving and increasingly complex regulatory environment, working seamlessly across major business and financial hubs. The Practice comprises of both contentious and non-contentious lawyers who advise on all aspects of regulatory compliance, risk management, enforcement and regulatory transactions. The non-contentious side of the Practice is “full service” across the wholesale and retail financial services spread of work focussing on core regulatory strengths: asset management/hedge funds, banking and markets infrastructure/ commodities.

The Senior Knowledge Lawyer position will focus on the non-contentious side of the Practice and work closely with two other knowledge lawyers. They will report into the Global Director of Financial Services Knowledge and the financial services partners.  They may in addition have line management responsibility for a Knowledge Assistant. This role is to cover the existing Financial services regulation Senior Knowledge Lawyer’s maternity leave.

The Role

• Acting as a sounding board for lawyers to discuss the legal issues which they face in their transactions and matters (including structuring advice), providing assistance to lawyers in their research
• Maintaining existing precedents and drafting new precedents, including complex documents
• Maintaining existing practice notes and drafting new practice notes, including from scratch in complex areas of law
• Providing knowledge support to business development initiatives, including prominent roles in the key industry sectors and Key Client initiatives of Norton Rose Fulbright.
• Preparing and delivering legal training to associates, partners and clients
• Preparing scripts and participating in webinars, videos and podcasts
• Drafting high level material for external or internal publications and working with partners and PR to identify topics of interest and likely candidates for articles
• Preparing UK updates for our Regulation Tomorrow blog
• Assist partners and senior associates with their participation in industry bodies
• Feeding into the team’s know-how strategy and implementing such strategy by promoting the use of internal databases and search engines and by devising and implementing systems for know-how collection (research notes, transactional documents, training material etc)
• Management of other team members

Skills and Experience Required

• Qualified lawyer with significant legal experience in financial services regulation and operating at a senior level
• Recognised as an expert in specialist area
• Experience in drafting complex documents in plain language
• Experience in designing and delivering successful, interesting and innovative training programmes, targeted to the audience
• Ability to work with a variety of personalities across all levels of the organisation
• Experience, 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

Competencies

• Exceptional organisational skills with an ability to demonstrate initiative and flexibility adapting to changing priorities
• Strong client focus and demonstrated commitment to outstanding service delivery.
• Demonstrated team leadership skills
• Demonstrated capacity for lucid and accurate reporting to management.
• Strong IT skills and familiarity with document management software
• Ability to exercise judgment, high level of confidentiality and diplomacy at all times.
• Ability to work under pressure, both autonomously and as a team member
• Demonstrates a high level of initiative, problem solving and decision-making and, where required, tenacity

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 proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams. We strive to create an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any tailored adjustments or accommodations, please let us know here.