Restructuring and Insolvency Senior Knowledge Lawyer

Role profile

We are seeking a Senior Knowledge Lawyer to provide high quality knowledge support for our market-leading Restructuring & Insolvency ("R&I") team.

This is a permanent role which can be based in either our London or Bristol office. The role is being offered on a 3 day per week basis.

The Team

Our R&I team has a strong track record in advising on large restructuring and insolvency mandates. It has a diverse client base encompassing creditors, debtors, accountancy firms, insolvency practitioners, and turnaround professionals. It combines legal expertise with deep industry knowledge to provide commercial and pragmatic advice to clients.

The team comprises four partners and seven fee earners across our Bristol and London offices, and works collaboratively on client assignments.

The team consists of two sub-teams - contentious R&I, and non-contentious R&I. This role will be focussed on the non-contentious R&I work. The R&I team sits within our Disputes & Risk (D&R) Practice Group. The successful candidate will therefore also become a member of our close-knit D&R Knowledge Team, which presently includes four Knowledge Lawyers and a Knowledge Paralegal who support other service lines in the Group. You will work alongside the D&R Knowledge Team as well as liaising closely with other Knowledge Lawyers from across the firm, including, in particular, those supporting Corporate, Banking, and Real Estate.

The Role

You will help keep our R&I lawyers and clients up-to-date on relevant insolvency and restructuring legislation, case law, and market developments. The role will primarily relate to the non-contentious work undertaken by the R&I team, although you may also be required to support on research and related tasks concerning contentious R&I matters.

The role will include:

• dealing with queries from lawyers in the R&I team and clients regarding current R&I law and practice;
• keeping the R&I team abreast of relevant legal developments and preparing reader-friendly and relevant internal updates;
• developing and maintaining an up-to-date and technically excellent collection of R&I precedent documents;
• collecting, storing, maintaining, and sharing internal and external legal and market know-how;
• researching legal or market-related material to provide fee earners with clear and authoritative analyses;
• developing and helping deliver the R&I team's legal training programme;
• supporting partners and fee earners as required in their client relationship development through identifying potential topics and speakers for client seminars and client training sessions; preparing useful written and training materials; and, speaking at such seminars and sessions;
• providing support in preparing client updates and bulletins; and
• working alongside others to support innovation in the delivery of legal services.

Technical Skills and Experience

We are looking for someone with an enthusiasm for insolvency and restructuring law generally within a client-focused professional services environment. You will also be/have:

• A qualified lawyer in England & Wales with significant R&I experience, a strong theoretical, practical, and up-to-date knowledge of English insolvency and restructuring law.
• Prior experience as a knowledge / professional support lawyer, or a demonstrable existing interest in knowledge best practice.
• A client-orientated approach with a good understanding of the use of knowledge to develop and support business development activities, preferably with prior experience of presenting to both individual client teams and at seminars and roundtables.
• Proven problem-solving ability on your own initiative, together with the ability to make decisions and progress work and projects quickly without undue process or over-complication; confidence in own expertise; and, a strong appreciation of fee earner needs and constraints.
• Collaborative team player with the ability to develop and work in a fast-paced, intellectually rigorous environment.
• Interest in and willingness to learn about legal technology and how it can drive efficiencies and innovation.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, enthusiasm for presenting technical legal issues in a clear, approachable and professional way and a good understanding of how knowledge is acquired by the lawyer and client audience.
• Strong attention to accuracy and detail, and well-developed analytical skills.

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

Our recruitment process
We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Patrick Fermin Ryan on Patrick.FerminRyan@osborneclarke.com.

Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.

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