Employment Practice Development Lawyer

Description

• Creates confidence with partners and senior lawyers and forges co-operative working relationships with colleagues
• managing the development and quality assurance of technical and commercial resources, including precedents, guidance notes and toolkits with a focus on ensuring clarity, consistency, and visual effectiveness;
• attending client and sector events, briefings and presentations;
• building and deepening client relationships through strategic engagement, including collaboration on client policies and precedents, horizon scanning, training, briefings, working with our international lawyer teams and thought leadership activities.
• leading/ preparing responses to public consultations on legal and policy developments;
• designing and delivering training programmes for the team, including bespoke sessions for senior lawyers and leadership teams; and overseeing:
• You’ll work closely with our lawyers and directly with clients to deliver cutting-edge knowhow, training, and legal products.
• overseeing horizon scanning and providing strategic insight into key legal and market developments, ensuring timely dissemination to clients and internal teams;
• managing maintenance of the Team's knowledge databases, ensuring accessibility, accuracy and strategic alignment;
• design and delivery of training to key clients, including proactively identifying relevant topics aligned with client needs and market trends;
• providing expert analysis on legal and policy developments to global colleagues and clients, ensuring commercial relevance and clarity;
• leading collaboration closely with partners, legal directors, and senior stakeholders across the employment practice on strategic developments;
• identifying and shaping innovative practices, products and resources, proactively spotting opportunities to enhance client service and internal efficiency, and driving their development and implementation across the team.
• You’ll help shape and deliver strategic knowledge initiatives that make a real difference to our clients and our practice.
• leading the tracking, creation and dissemination of technical and commercial intelligence to clients and lawyers, ensuring insights are timely, relevant and aligned with client priorities and sector developments.
• working with the firm's Central Knowledge and Research teams to ensure best use of resources and technology;
• strategically overseeing the production and maintenance of precedents, standard forms, practice notes and knowledge materials, including digital and intranet content;
• championing innovation, identifying and launching new work streams, products, and resources that enhance client service and internal efficiency.
• working with the firm’s BD and PR teams to contribute regularly to external media and Pinsent Masons’ Out-Law website;
• initiating and leading strategic knowledge projects, including scoping, prioritisation, and implementation - in collaboration with partner and lawyer teams;
• identifying and sourcing appropriate external training for lawyers
• organisation of all training programmes for the group; and
• collaborating with Advanced Delivery teams to enhance legal service delivery through innovative use of people, processes and technology, contributing to the design and rollout of scalable solutions.
• designing and delivering high-value training programmes for both internal lawyers and external clients, ensuring content is commercially relevant and technically robust.
• curating and delivering a robust current awareness programme, including newsletters, alerts and thought leadership content, tailored to client and sector needs;
• owning and delivering strategic knowledge and client initiatives, working in close partnership with client teams and lawyers to ensure consistency, impact and alignment with firm-wide goals.
• You’ll have the opportunity to innovate, lead, and influence how we deliver value to clients.
• driving innovation by identifying and deploying new or alternative practices, products and resources that deliver measurable value to clients;
• assessing and advising on the implications of legal and regulatory changes, including their impact on transactions, disputes, and client risk profiles;
• championing innovation in legal practice, leading the development and implementation of new products, resources and service models that respond to evolving client needs and market dynamics.

Requirements

• Previous experience working as an employment lawyer in a UK law firm, ideally for at least eight years.
• Highly collaborative and able to work among a group of high-performing peers
• Strong communication and influencing skills and the ability to work effectively at all levels with clients, lawyers and support services
• Self-driven with highly effective time management skills
• Approach and behaviours consistent with the firm’s purpose-led approach and core values of being 'approachable', 'bold' and 'connected'.
• Experience of and a passion for, training delivery
• Practical and flexible approach, with an ability to think and act strategically
• No previous PDL experience required.
• Client facing experience in a range of employment law areas.

Benefits

• You’ll be part of a close-knit, collaborative PDL community across the firm.
• Autonomy, responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships with great clients.
• A supportive and friendly working environment in a great team with team with warmth, dedication and a passion for excellence.
• We invest in our team and have a fantastic training and career development programme, regular 121s, career discussions and appraisals.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance