Senior Knowledge Lawyer

Kennedys' Dublin is seeking to hire a Senior Knowledge Lawyer to lead the Knowledge Management offering and strategy in Ireland.  This is a senior role where the successful candidate will be working closely with the Partnership to implement the firm's Knowledge Management.

TEAM

Kennedys Knowledge Team in UK&I is comprised of Knowledge Lawyers, Knowledge Managers,

Knowledge Advisors, Information Services professionals, and Knowledge Admins. In Ireland, the Senior Knowledge Lawyer leads the Knowledge Management offering and is supported by a Knowledge Admin.

Kennedys' Knowledge Lawyers leverage their technical expertise to support the growth and work of our market leading legal teams. They do this by providing legal and practical guidance, know-how curation services, substantive legal training  and current awareness. Our KM team capitalises on the firm's knowledge by leveraging applicable technologies.

OUR FIRM

Kennedys' Dublin office, led by eight partners, combines deep legal and regulatory expertise with practical business insight to deliver specialist legal services across (re)insurance, healthcare, and commercial disputes. Boasting one of the largest dedicated insurance practices in Ireland, our Dublin team provides expert coverage and claims defence services to both international and domestic insurers and their insured clients.

Dublin Insurance Team is a recognised leader in Ireland's insurance market. Trusted by some of the world's largest insurers and reinsurers, they are the go-to experts for market-shaping cases—most notably the recent, once-in-a-generation, multi-billion international aviation claims managed concurrently from London and Dublin.

Dublin Liability Team offers strategic advice on the defence of personal injury and property damages claims. The team has particular expertise in employer & public liability claims, product liability, catastrophic injury and property subrogation claims.

Dublin Healthcare Team is among the foremost in Ireland. With a proven track record handling high-value, sensitive and precedent-setting cases, the team advises a broad spectrum of high-profile clients across both public and private sectors. These include state entities, globally recognised insurers, medical service providers, healthcare product manufacturer and medical professionals.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supports the Dublin Partnership in designing, implementing and leading the firm's Knowledge Management strategy.
• Supports the wider UK&I Knowledge Team driving the development of Knowledge Management strategy in the context of firmwide objectives
• Supports the Chief Knowledge Officer in the delivery of a global Knowledge Management offering
• Drafting, reviewing and maintaining precedents, models documents, templates, forms, checklists, and other know-how and knowledge assets
• Developing a knowledge sharing culture within the firm to ensure that lawyers at all levels are contributing to the sharing of knowledge in a structured way.
• Facilitating the delivery of legal training, webinars and podcasts for our lawyers. This will involve curriculum design, based on training requirements identified through working closely with the Partners, Learning and Development, and Business Development
• Liaising with the team heads / Partners to identify legal training needs for each team
• Designing and managing legal learning programmes, including programmes for:
  • All lawyers on practice and procedure issues and changes in the law and/or court rules that might impact on their practice
  • Junior lawyers (trainees and litigation assistants) to help them gain the knowledge necessary to best support their teams
  • Supporting junior lawyers in preparing for team presentations, including by providing one-on-one feedback sessions, improving the overall standard and quality of presentations
• Managing third party providers including online legal resources and training providers
• Content creation for thought leadership initiatives such as articles, internal and client-facing updates/alerts, reports and publications, pitches, presentations and social media, collaborating closely with BD
• Monitoring global developments of legal, regulatory, market, and industry import for insights, and briefings initiatives, in collaboration with BD
• Leading practice technology projects, driving adoption and change, and demonstrating a deep understanding of key practice technologies
• Collaborating with IT on all KM driven technology and innovation projects
• Collaborating with the Risk & Compliance team to ensure best practice risk management for the firm
• May be required to have team management and supervisory responsibility, including the development of more junior team members

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• An evident passion for knowledge management and technology
• At least five years' PQE, with relevant practical experience of Knowledge Management an advantage
• Excellent communication, written and presentation skills, with strong analytical, research, and drafting skills, and attention to detail
• Ability to articulate complex legal issues clearly and concisely
• Ability to engage with lawyers at all levels to foster a knowledge sharing culture
• Evidenced ability to build and develop relationships at all levels of the organization, including at a partnership level

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys. 

About Kennedys

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,750 people worldwide across 48 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles.  A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate diversity, empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.  We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority.  We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work.  Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.