Practice Group / Department:
Financial Services Knowledge, Innovation and ProductJob 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. At Norton Rose Fulbright, our strategy and our culture are closely entwined. We know that our expansion will mean little unless it is underpinned by truly global collaboration and we understand that pioneering work only takes place when our people have room to move and think beyond boundaries. As well as the relevant skills and experience, we're looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do.
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 (see competency framework for further details)
- 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.
Top Skills
What We Do
We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have more than 3,500 lawyers and other legal staff based in Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa.
Recognized for our industry focus, we are strong across all the key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy, infrastructure and resources; consumer markets; transport; technology; and life sciences and healthcare. Through our global risk advisory group, we leverage our industry experience with our knowledge of legal, regulatory, compliance and governance issues to provide our clients with practical solutions to the legal and regulatory risks facing their businesses.
Wherever we are, we operate in accordance with our global business principles of quality, unity and integrity. We aim to provide the highest possible standard of legal service in each of our offices and to maintain that level of quality at every point of contact.
Norton Rose Fulbright Verein, a Swiss verein, helps coordinate the activities of Norton Rose Fulbright members but does not itself provide legal services to clients. Norton Rose Fulbright has offices in more than 50 cities worldwide, including London, Houston, New York, Toronto, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Sydney and Johannesburg. For more information, see nortonrosefulbright.com/legal-notices
