LLP - Associate (5+PQE) Professional Indemnity (Knowledge Lawyer) - Leeds

Job Introduction

DACB Beachcroft’s ambitious and industry leading insurance sector team is seeking to recruit a Professional Indemnity Knowledge Lawyer (Professional Support Lawyer).  

This role would suit a 5PQE+ with experience across professional liabilities (including accountants, financial advisers, brokers, lawyers, pensions, surveyors and valuers and technology professionals), who is looking to move into a knowledge role, or an existing insurance Knowledge Lawyer/PSL looking for a challenging new opportunity.  The role would require someone working 3 – 5 days per week on a hybrid basis, to be based in the Leeds office.

You will be joining an existing team of 4 insurance knowledge lawyers based across our London and regional offices and you will play a vital role in shaping both internal and external knowledge management, with a specialist focus on thought leadership and horizon scanning in the insurance industry.

This also offers the opportunity for career progression for the right candidate.

Role Responsibility

Practice

• Provides advice and support to colleagues on technically complex issues.
• 'Horizon watches' for case law and legislative developments which may impact cluster and clients and other clusters
• Delivers against long and short term cluster business plans
• Takes responsibility for product delivery and quality
• Creates newsletters as required for specific professions and clients.
• Provides regular updates to cluster
• Attends L&D planning meetings and fully engages and understands needs of cluster in advance of the meeting
• Works closely with L&D to deliver against shared objectives to deliver the right training and knowledge
• Organises training for colleagues, where appropriate engaging with external speakers.
• Creates and amends cluster specific know how and manages cluster precedent and guidance, where applicable. 
• Support the delivery of the technical training programme by the hosting of technical training.
• Reviews requests for external courses (where there is no internal course available) and requests feedback to consider whether internal content should be produced.
• Strives for continuous improvement in the delivery of legal knowledge to colleagues and gives consideration to new and innovative ways of working.

Client (internal and external)

• Ensures the firm produces and delivers excellent solutions to client requirements. 

Marketing & BD

• Regularly and proactively produces articles and thought leadership aligned with technical developments/'hot topics' in area of specialism.
• Supports the development of the relevant service line nationally/internationally.

People & Team

• Develops and maintains a strong client and colleague network within the firm.
• Makes a significant contribution to know-how and the development of others, actively participating in and/or leading on Knowledge Management initiatives.
• Acts as a technical coach with the team, cluster and firm.

Firm

• Understands DAC Beachcroft is an international firm.  Works with awareness of this structure to operate as one team/brand.
• Actively operates in the best interests of the firm at all times internally and externally.

Risk

• Operates in a regulated environment, effectively managing risk and compliance issues including data security.
• Works in partnership with others to manage and mitigate commercial risk.

The Ideal Candidate

• An enthusiastic and proactive lawyer, ideally 5+ years PQE.
• Knowledge of/ experience in Scottish law/dual qualified would be advantageous.
• Confident in writing thought leadership, undertaking black letter law research and providing internal and external training.
• Excellent external-facing client skills.
• Enthusiastic about building strong internal and external relationships and working closely with our marketing and business development teams.
• Proactive and driven, whether working alone or as part of a team.

About the Company

We are a leading international legal business with over 2,900 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.

We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings.

Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Our health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year’ award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help our clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com.

Application Details

At DAC Beachcroft, we don’t just accept your differences we celebrate them.  From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you like an individual.  Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the whole you to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are.  We welcome direct applications and are happy to talk flexible working.

We also want you to be at your very best.  Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application.  If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.  Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible.  We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us.  Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.  Our recruitment team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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