THE FIRM

Addleshaw Goddard stand out for being consistently excellent in advice. Renowned for the quality of our service, attention to detail and the depth and breadth of our talent, we ensure that every person at AG is given every opportunity to develop their technical, professional, commercial and inter-personal skills through their day to day work and our bespoke Learning and Development programme. We want our people to fulfil their potential in an environment where they are developed and valued. 

We are innovators in the development of technology in the provision of legal services and have won multiple awards for our technology offering. Our AG Intelligent Delivery offering provides clients with a range of technology solutions, enabling us to win the best work from the best clients.

THE TEAM

We are busy, high performing and cohesive, but at the same time have a modern approach to work and are advocates of the flexible working policy at AG. We have a down to earth culture and a positive, supportive and stretching environment where we hope employees can flourish with the full support required.

 We are one of the leading UK focused antitrust practices, with three established Partners based in London, a dedicated and experienced competition litigation team working on many of the key, antitrust cases and a broad client base of major corporates which trusts our team with some of the most complex and high value competition enforcement, merger control, competition litigation and counselling matters. We also work on cutting edge cases in regulated sectors such as energy, financial services, telecoms and rail. Outside the UK, there are now partners specialising in competition law in our offices in France, Germany and Ireland. 

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

We are looking for a Knowledge Lawyer to support our Competition Team, either in London, Leeds or Manchester (although flexible working arrangements to support substantial home working are, of course, possible). This role will support our internal fee-earners through training and know-how and therefore day to day you will work directly with the partners and fee earners in the Competition team focussing on the team priorities and their support requirements.

For this role we welcome applications from experienced Competition Lawyers interested in Knowledge Lawyer opportunities or experienced Knowledge Lawyers.

DUTIES

As a Knowledge Lawyer in the team, you can expect to:

  • Find effective ways to update colleagues and clients on legal developments in an engaging and thought provoking manner including the development of briefings, social media presence, thought leadership and bespoke horizon scanning solutions.
  • Organise and delivers regular training on relevant legal topics for clients (both value add and fee-earning) and colleagues.
  • Organise personal and team contributions to internal and client knowledge . For example, updating precedents, authoring relevant know-how, deals done / experience databases, and managing collaboration tools and extranets.
  • Act in an advisory capacity in supporting colleagues and clients with complex legal research queries, helping them develop the skills to find answers for themselves and help tailor advice to a client’s specific needs.
  • Developing matter-based and generic checklists, how to guides, practice notes and other forms of formal know-how, as appropriate
  • Identify and delivers innovative approaches to managing and sharing knowledge for the benefit of colleagues and clients.
  • Network internally and externally to build personal profile and reputation as a subject matter expert, develop effective working relationships that help get things done, and brings back best practice from other Departments, Divisions and firms which is subsequently implemented in their own team
  • Involvement in the continuous development of technology in the provision of our legal services
  • Contribute to firmwide knowledge management through the wider knowledge lawyer group.
  • Knowledge, skills and experience required

    Our ideal applicant will require the following skills and experience:

  • Be an experienced Competition Lawyer with a minimum of 7 years post qualification experience seeking a change in direction OR a current PSL with experience of working in a Competition focused role.
  • Have a deep interest in Competition law
  • Ability to work closely with partners and associates and quickly gain their confidence
  • Have excellent interpersonal, drafting and writing skills
  • Be both proactive and well organised
  • Have good project management skills
  • Have excellent presentation and communication skills to communicate complex legal concepts effectively and simply
  • Be prepared to work as part of a highly-motivated and hard-working team often working to tight deadlines
  • We would consider a part time role (four days per week) if required.

    As a firm, we aim to provide a positive experience to everyone who works here and our focus on financial, lifestyle and wellbeing benefits ensures that this experience goes beyond the nine-to-five. As part of this mission, some of the benefits employees of AG can expect are;

  • Flexible and agile working
  • Life assurance & income protection
  • Competitive employer matched pension contribution rate
  • Health and wellbeing subsidy, up to £180 per year
  • One day per year to volunteer (as part of our CSR initiative)
  • Buy/sell holidays (up to 5 days each year)
  • Mental health and wellbeing initiatives such as The Mindful Business Charter, Mental Health Champions and 1:1 sessions with an in-house professional
  • Talent referral bonus incentives
  • AG Excellence awards for the recognition of exceptional effort
  • Opt in private medical and private dental insurance
  • Opt in annual health screening
  • Voluntary critical illness cover
  • Annual discretionary bonus plan
  • AG is an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of a person’s gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic. We are committed to having a diverse team and actively encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and communities, particularly those from underrepresented demographics. We want our recruitment practices to be as inclusive as possible, so please let us know if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process to help you perform to your best.