Job Description

We are recruiting for a Knowledge Lawyer to join our Real Estate Future Energy team in Glasgow or Edinburgh. This role offers fully flexible working and can accommodate full or part-time hours.
Your Role
The day-to-day tasks outlined below give an indication of some of the tasks that you may be expected to carry out as a Knowledge Lawyer:

• Creating and maintaining precedents, as well as directing fee earners to external resources, which you will collate and annotate
• Creating and delivering internal training to our fee earners. This may include trainee programmes, training for junior lawyers, as well as regular practice area and market updates
• Creating and, where appropriate, delivering training to clients
• Keeping up to date with legal developments and notifying fee earners of the impact of these on their practice, as well as ensuring that any impacts are dealt with in precedents, and practice notes
• Dealing with complex legal queries from fee earners
• Ensuring that all relevant materials created by you and the fee earners are captured, up to date, monitored and included in TLT's internal knowledge database and promoting the use of this with fee earners
• Working with relevant business services teams across the firm to ensure that your group/team resources are easily accessible
• Identifying potential risks and working with the Risk team to minimise these.
• Identifying opportunities for efficiencies, either through process optimisation, legal project management or technology, and working with FutureLaw and MLS to trial, promote adoption and implement these
• Writing or contributing to legal insights for internal use, or our website, as well as articles for external publications
• Where required, drafting responses to specific questions or parts of tenders
• Along with other KLs, working with relevant teams across the firm in relation to the design and functionality of our internal knowledge database
• Liaising closely with our wider team of Knowledge Lawyers who service other groups across the firm
• Where appropriate, mentoring and/or otherwise supporting the trainees in the team with developing their knowledge application and research skills
• Creating and/or delivering training to clients

Your Skills & Experience

• You must be a Scottish qualified Solicitor, with at least 5 years' PQE in transactional real estate work, including on future energy projects
• Strong legal drafting skills and attention to detail
• Ability to digest, analyse and succinctly communicate large amounts of legal and industry information to both internal and external clients
• Ability to work effectively independently and to work well as part of a team, with strong project management and time management skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including strong presentation skills
• Self-motivated with a strong client focused approach
• Awareness and familiarity with different tools available to support delivery of projects and matters
• Self-motivated with a strong client-focused approach

Your Team
We are one of the UK's largest real estate groups, with a team of over 180, advising on thousands of transactions across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each year. Clients instruct us for this experience, our depth of expertise and sector know-how. Many of our real estate partners are independently recognised as leading individuals in the field by the legal industry's annual directory rankings. Clients including many in-house lawyers trust us with both 'high profile' and business as usual work.
We act across the industry for corporate occupiers, developers, banks, investors and public bodies. We're active in the future energy market, for example, advising on over 30% of all UK solar renewables projects and working on some of the UK's major energy infrastructure projects.
About TLT
Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.
We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. TLT was named Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2023. This marks the third year in a row the firm has taken away this accolade in industry awards - having previously been named Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer Awards in 2021 and the British Legal Awards in 2022.
Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it's essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.
Our Benefits
We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You'll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.
At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people. We're happy to talk about how flexible working can work for you and this role.
TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of disability, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on Recruitment.Operations@TLT.com

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