Knowledge Lawyer, Professional Indemnity (Leeds)

Job Introduction

*Note: We are open to those who are looking to work part-time (min. 3 days week) or full-time for this role.

DAC Beachcroft - Knowledge Lawyer

We are seeking a proactive lawyer with 5+ years of post-qualification experience in professional liabilities, including accountants, financial advisers, brokers, lawyers, pensions, surveyors, valuers, and technology professionals. Join our team of insurance knowledge lawyers in our London and regional offices and play a vital role in shaping internal and external knowledge management, with a focus on thought leadership and horizon scanning in the insurance industry. Join us and craft a career.

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, providing regular updates to cluster
• Takes responsibility for product delivery and quality
• Creates newsletters as required for specific professions and clients.
• Actively engages in L&D planning meetings, understanding needs of cluster in advance, and collaborates with L&D to deliver the right training and knowledge
• 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.

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

About DAC Beachcroft

We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're 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-five housebuilders.

We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe.

Working with us

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. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.

Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.

We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as 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 are a Disability Confident employer and guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, long term health condition or neurodiversity whose application meets the essential criteria for the role. If this applies to you and you feel you meet the minimum criteria for this vacancy as set out in this advert then please contact disabilityconfident@dacbeachcroft.com in confidence, quoting the reference number for this vacancy in the subject box of your email, and a member of the Recruitment team will be in touch.

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft LLP resourcing 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 resourcing team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable. Our resourcing team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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