Knowledge Lawyer

Description:

We are a collegial, collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realize their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Knowledge Management department in our Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., or Houston office, as a Knowledge Lawyer (Real Estate Group).

An experienced lawyer who will help to develop the Knowledge Strategy for the Real Estate Group (collectively, “the Group”) in the United States and globally, and implement projects to meet the Group’s knowledge needs; monitor developments in the legal and business environment in order to keep both the Group and its Clients up to date; provide legal and practical expertise to support the Group’s practice, both directly and through the mentoring of junior lawyers; create, develop and manage the Group’s collection of standard forms/models, precedents and research materials; help organize, design and deliver Group training; help evaluate and support adoption of modern tools for legal services configuration and delivery, including artificial intelligence, and provide other support as needed. An expertise or strong interest in exploring AI solutions to help fulfill group needs is required.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

 Knowledge Strategy 
 Work with the Knowledge Partners, the other Knowledge Counsel and real estate Lawyers, and the Director: Knowledge Management to assess the knowledge needs of the Group and for the coordination of cross-Practice efforts and AI solutions that relate to Real Estate. 
 Define and implement a plan to meet those needs that is aligned with the business goals of the Group, and mechanisms for regular review of the plan 

 Modernization of practice tools and processes 
 Work with Mayer Brown’s Innovation and IT teams and others to help assess and support adoption of modern tools and processes to configure and deliver legal services, including artificial intelligence and other developing tools 

 Organizing and Sharing: Standard Forms and Document Collections 
 Work with Group members, and others, to create and capture Real Estate-related knowledge content and encourage the sharing of information and knowledge generally, and to coordinate with other Practices to encourage and implement consistency across Practices in relation to Real Estate issues and policies 
 Create and maintain a well-organized electronic collection of practice-related knowledge resources, which include in particular Real Estate standard forms and accompanying notes, precedent documents, best practices and how-to memos, legal memos and other materials useful to the Group 
 Help the Knowledge Department generally to tailor the Firm’s knowledge resources to meet the needs of the Group 

 Current Awareness and Thought Leadership 
 Monitor and keep the Group informed about important developments in the law or business environment 
 Prepare regular current awareness newsletters for the Group 
 Work with the librarians to determine requirements and policies and to implement processes regarding practice-related current awareness and alerts from internal and external sources 
 Help identify and create relevant client alerts on new development 

 Lawyer Training and Technical Expertise 
 Work with the Group and the Learning and Development team to identify practice-related training needs of the Group; and, building on existing training programs, organize, design and deliver (personally or with others) Group training, including seminars, workshops and offsite training 
 Train Group members how to access knowledge resources on the Mayer Brown Intranet and elsewhere 
 Mentor associates 
 Provide direct support to individual practitioners to assist them with locating practice-related internal and external knowledge resources 
 Be a source of legal, market and practical expertise for all members of the Group, including the provision of direct support for client matters 

 Practice Group Pages on the Intranet 
 Develop and maintain the knowledge-related aspects of the Group’s Mayer Brown Intranet site(s) 

 Matter Management and Collaboration 
 Work with the Group and Marketing Department to establish processes to capture matter descriptions and categorizations in our matter systems, and conduct post-matter review of lessons learned 
 Assist with setting up a process for producing closing binders and collecting valuable precedent documents 

 People and Relationship Information 
 Work with the Group to establish processes to capture and publish information about individuals (both internal and external) with specific knowledge and experience relevant to the Group’s business in the Firm’s dedicated CRM systems 

 Other 
 Participate in the planning of training and other knowledge related activities 
 Participate in regular meetings of the Knowledge Department and liaise with other Knowledge Counsel and Lawyers to facilitate the sharing of best practice and knowledge 
 Attend external training and conferences to keep up-to-date with relevant developments in the law, business environment and professional support 
 Provide other knowledge support to the Group as may be assigned by the head of the Group, the Knowledge Partner, or the Director: Knowledge Management 
 Performs other duties and other duties as assigned or required to meet Firm goals and objectives 
Education/Training/Certifications

 Qualifications, Experience and Personal Attributes 

 This position requires a lawyer with actual practice experience in a field related to Real Estate who is or will become admitted to practice in the jurisdiction in which the position is located 

Professional Experience

 Five or more years of sound legal experience relevant to the Group as an admitted and practicing lawyer in a large law firm or corporate/financial institution legal department 
 Deep subject-matter expertise on various aspects of Real Estate legal work and commercial issues 

Technical Skills

 Proficiency in Microsoft Office products, required