Professional Development Lawyer (Corporate)

Why Join Us?

We offer a flexible and hybrid working model. Our comprehensive benefits package includes private medical insurance, pension contributions, an employee assistance programme, and a range of wellbeing initiatives. Enhanced parental leave is also available, reflecting our commitment to supporting you through every stage of your career and life.

Many of our people work flexibly in some way and we're open to considering how we can accommodate flexible working arrangements alongside role requirements. If this is important to you, please talk to us about it during the recruitment process.

We are looking for a junior-level Corporate Solicitor to join our Knowledge Management team as a Professional Development Lawyer (PDL), supporting one of the firm's busiest and most successful practice areas.

Working alongside our experienced Senior Corporate PDL, you will help deliver high-quality knowledge management services, keeping the team up to date with legal developments, developing training and resources, maintaining precedents, and supporting the adoption of legal technology and AI across the Corporate practice.

This opportunity would suit someone with broad corporate and company law experience who enjoys sharing knowledge, developing others, and exploring innovative ways to improve legal service delivery.

What you'll be doing

Monitoring legal, regulatory and market developments affecting corporate law.

Producing current awareness updates, guidance notes and know-how resources.

Supporting the design and delivery of training programmes for fee earners.

Drafting and maintaining precedents, templates and company secretarial documentation.

Responding to technical legal queries from colleagues.

Championing the use of legal technology and AI tools across the team.

Supporting knowledge-sharing initiatives and wider Knowledge Management projects.

Please review full job description and if the role is of interest, and suits your specific skill set, then please apply. Or for more information, please contact recruitment@brownejacobson.com.

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