Knowledge Lawyer - Corporate Structures

Baker McKenzie

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Description

Role Purpose:

To manage and execute legal content projects, training, and knowledge initiatives for the Group within the context of the Firm's knowledge strategy.

Main responsibilities

To make first-class Group knowledge from Amsterdam and the broader EMEA region easily available to lawyers, increasing the quality, consistency, and cost-effectiveness of the advice that Baker McKenzie gives its clients, including:

Knowledge and Expertise

Awareness of current commercial/industry know-how:

Keep abreast and provide regular updates on key developments impacting the Groups.
Apply an understanding of key clients' industries and businesses to all activities.
Work with other PGs and IGs to provide the most holistic legal, commercial, and industry know-how possible.
Leverage industry periodicals and media to enhance industry knowledge.
Involve yourself with industry bodies, including by coordinating attendance at meetings and calls and by joining working groups and subcommittees

Client-facing knowledge:

Provide legal input into client-facing initiatives, including client training and legal content for proposals and other business development resources.
Identify the Groups' hot topics and write, commission, and deliver content such as alerts, thought leadership reports, and talking points. Educate yourself about PG/IG's Industry Key Clients

Know-how development:

Collect and input the Groups' know-how into the Firm's global knowledge repository and populate global, multijurisdictional databases and resources.

Lawyer requests:

Respond to ad hoc inquiries from lawyers with on-point, thorough, and timely answers. Develop a reputation as a go-to expert

Precedents:

Draft, develop, and automate the Groups' precedents and other legal content

Training:

Identify the Groups' training needs.
Meet training needs by delivering, participating in, and promoting training.
Leverage firm resources and processes to produce training materials and courses efficiently and of the highest possible qualit

Policy initiatives and capacity-building:

Participate in and respond to policy consultations and regulatory developments

Service Orientation

Relationships:

Promote and identify ways to strengthen the Groups' knowledge culture
Build lasting relationships throughout the firm through collaboration, mutual respect, and a reputation for competence. Advocate and be a positive spokesperson for Knowledge
Nurture relationships with trainees and junior lawyers
Support diversity and inclusion, CSR, and pro bono activities

Work Management

Operations and innovation:

Proactively seek ways to improve your own and your team's service and efficiency and contribute to best practices
Actively participate in Knowledge projects

Systems:

Support and drive the adoption of Knowledge systems.
Take ownership of delivery. Schedule one-on-one meetings and presentations to promote Knowledge systems

Strategy, alignment, and integration:

Understand and promote the group's business and Knowledge plans. Structure time and priorities per the Groups' business and Knowledge plans and provide input into them

Technical skills, qualifications and experience

Qualified in the Netherlands. Highly experienced in international deal market standards
Current license to practice law (or eligibility for one)
Substantial experience as a practicing lawyer with direct involvement in private and public Notary including the related areas of private equity, regulated public Notary, and equity capital markets
Excellent English language skills (verbal and written) and confidence to communicate in a multi-cultural, multi-level environment
Experience working directly with senior counterparts on strategy and execution
Excellent time management and organizing skills; ability to prioritize and manage time to meet deadlines
Strong word processing and spreadsheet skills
Experience in or willingness to learn document automation and other legal tech

Personal qualities

These personal qualities represent the shared characteristics of high performers across Baker McKenzie, regardless of job level and location.

Know-how

Demonstrates the ability to identify the real issue, and to anticipate requirements and potential consequences; distils a range of possibilities by thinking in a considered, prudent manner
Has the capacity to take on new ideas and develop knowledge and think holistically about business and address media, analyst, employee, and client audiences
Able to move through a variety of tasks requiring different approaches, knowledge, and expertise, with the agility of mind and capacity for analysis and synthesis

Dedication:

Driven by a strong personal sense of integrity and upholds exemplary quality standards
Prepares thoroughly, takes responsibility, uses initiative, and is self-reliant to ensure work progresses to the fullest extent possible
Hardworking and diligent with a keen understanding of client demands
Demonstrates composure when dealing with difficult situations

Personal Impact:

Uses complex, coordinated influencing/negotiation strategies, adapted to people, organizations, and/or the situation, e.g. networks
Leverages direct reports to facilitate increased collaboration across the organization
Builds partnerships based on a common agreement that acknowledges individual differences but creates a new commonality beyond root belief large-scale
Creates a positive impression at all times; develops relationships through collaboration and reciprocity
Negotiates to achieve mutually satisfactory outcomes; shows good judgment on when to stand strong and when to compromise
Invests in, nurtures, and builds a network of productive relationships

Humanity:

Respectful to others, regardless of their position, and earns the respect of others by being transparent
Has care and concern for others and a genuine interest in others as people
Treats delicate or confidential issues with discretion

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