Knowledge Lawyer
1 day ago
Job Description
**The Role**
Clifford Chance Middle East is a full-service office which is completely integrated with and supported by our global network. We advise clients on major transactions in the Middle East and beyond. Our clients include public and private corporations, investment banks and financial institutions, governments and international bodies. Our lawyers specialise in providing a seamless integrated service.
The Clifford Chance Knowledge, Expertise & Thought Leadership (KETL) team has an excellent reputation in the UAE market and a well-developed internal and external profile. The team provides a service across our offices in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and provides support to our team in Riyadh, AS&H Clifford Chance.
Our leading Global Financial Markets team in the Middle East, advises on the most significant finance and capital market transactions in the region. Our work spans the whole of the MENA region and beyond, under both English and UAE law.
**The Work**
The role of the KETL team includes:
- Ensuring fee-earners are kept up-to-date with regards to legal developments and local market issues;
- Working on highly technical local law issues and developing deep expertise in key areas of regional law and practice;
- Knowledge management including knowhow development, template updates and intranet resource development;
- Thought Leadership including helping the Firm and its lawyers to remain at the forefront of legal practice and thinking; and
- Managing and delivering training on local law to lawyers and clients.
**Key Attractions**
- You will be part of an innovative and highly regarded KETL team.
- You will be exposed to a range of work across the categories outlined above, across practice areas (although mainly focussed on the Global Financial Markets team (including Debt Capital Markets)) and across jurisdictions.
- You will directly contribute to the strong relationships the team shares with both internal and external clients.
- You will have access to our award-winning global Clifford Chance Academy learning and development programme.
- The role may also include some regular external facing legal training and the opportunity for some client-facing work.
- This position offers a chance to work regular and predictable hours during the work-week but may also require the flexibility to work after regular business hours if a specific need arises.
**Qualifications**:
**Your Experience**
Key responsibilities
The Knowledge Lawyer role is recognised as an important and valued one at Clifford Chance.
The role will support the Global Financial Markets teams in Dubai and Abu Dhabi and provide support to AS&H Clifford Chance in Riyadh. The Global Financial Markets team covers general banking, debt capital markets, Islamic finance, asset and project finance, and includes our strategic Africa team. Working alongside transactional lawyers, the role will be expected to deliver on a variety of regular support activities, including:
**Legal/regulatory**
- Analysing forthcoming legal/regulatory developments in order to brief lawyers and clients on their impact (including preparing client briefings or client presentation materials for the client team to use) and to update internal resources e.g. templates/Topic Guides.
- Responding to fee earner queries on legal and regulatory matters, including on legal/regulatory developments including highly technical local law issues.
- Contributing to relevant legal/regulatory consultation responses.
- Preparing and presenting summaries on legal/regulatory developments at practice group meetings.
**Templates**
- Maintaining and updating existing templates.
- Identifying and creating new templates as required.
- Improving the accessibility and ease of use of templates, including template automation.
**Thought Leadership**
- Driving Thought Leadership initiatives and taking queries on this from lawyers, Partners and Business Development.
- Working with lawyers, Partners and Business Development on key strategic areas of priority for Clifford Chance including ESG initiatives.
- Working with lawyers to write briefings and deliver training on key initiatives.
**Training**
- Contributing to the annual internal cross-practice training programme.
- Providing practice area specific induction training for new joiners and other legal training queries.
- Acting as point of contact with for Business Development/Partners for practice area specific client training.
**Knowledge sharing**
- Encouraging knowledge sharing by lawyers and the submission of knowhow to a shared knowledge database.
- Facilitating post deal reviews, analysis and knowledge consolidation.
- Considering better ways in which knowledge can be shared and develop other knowledge databases e.g. Topic Guides.
- Promoting and assisting lawyer with use of AI software alongside our Best Delivery Team.
**Other**:
- Fee earning on relevant GFM transactions when required
**Skills & Experience**
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