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Advancing the firm’s knowledge management capabilities
- Supporting the Head of Knowledge Management in the development and implementation of the firm’s knowledge management strategy
- Acting as an advocate for knowledge management across the firm
- Supporting the personal development of the firm’s professional support lawyers in terms of their legal knowledge, confidence and capability
- Building relationships with external providers of knowledge management resources such as Thomson Reuters and Lexis Nexis
- Supporting the knowledge management team in firmwide projects
Availability of know-how resources across the firm
- Being an advocate of appropriate knowledge management resources such as precedents, drafting notes, practice notes, transaction manuals, negotiation guides and other materials to assist the legal advisers throughout the firm (and not merely those teams that have professional support lawyers)
- Co-ordinating the activities of the firm’s professional support lawyers to ensure consistency across the firm’s knowledge management resources (this does not include line management of professional support lawyers, which will remain with divisional heads or their nominees)
- Encouraging collaboration between professional support lawyers to develop resources that can be used in common across different parts of the firm
- Encouraging standardisation of the manner in which know-how resources are described, stored and indexed to enable them to be located and used by legal advisers across the firm, including those outside the team in which those resources have been created
- Working with those teams in the firm that do not have professional support lawyers to encourage production of knowledge management resources for those teams’ legal advisers and finding technical experts who can contribute know- how on development programmes
- Work with the Development team to ensure the training matrix is kept up to date
- Working with the firm’s professional support lawyers to co-ordinate the migration of the legal content of Channel 9 to the firm’s new intranet to ensure consistency across divisions and teams
- Analysing the benefit to the firm of the legal resources supplied by external publishers including Practical Law and Lexis Professional Support Lawyers
Consistency of quality of legal knowledge and skills across the firm
- Ensuring that legal advisers across the firm receive updates on new legal developments
- Co-ordinating delivery of consistent technical legal training across all parts of the firm
- Co-ordinating adoption across the firm of new ways of training and of recording training
- Encouraging the use of virtual training methods and so support agile working
- Delivering or arranging training for legal advisers across the firm in common areas such as drafting techniques and writing skills
Consistency of quality of training materials emanating from the firm
- Working with the professional support lawyer team on the further development of the firm’s technical training, developing and communicating new ways of developing lawyers in line with the changes such as the SQE
- Working with the Learning and Development team to develop a mentoring framework for technical skills across the firm
- Working with the Head of Knowledge Management to embed a learning culture
- Working with the Head of Knowledge Management to embed a culture of effective supervision
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