Knowledge Lawyer Esg Services

5 days ago


Johannesburg, South Africa AGC Recruitment Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a Knowledge Lawyer to support our client’s ESG service offering. This vacancy is available in either their Johannesburg office or Cape Town office.

With over 150 years of experience and industry knowledge, our client is the leading full-service law firm on the African continent. They combine the collective knowledge and experience of their firm to provide clients with seamless, tailored and commercially minded business solutions within record times. Their long history as a global firm means they are uniquely placed to help their clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they are.

***Purpose of the Role**
- The role will support multiple key practice areas aligned to the firm's strategic target to continue to develop and take to market our external ESG offering (multi-disciplinary). Will work closely with the Knowledge & Innovation, Learning & Development, and BDMC teams.
- This role will focus on developing and implementing the firm's ESG knowledge framework and coordinating all related internal and external/client knowledge-led activities and content generation. The role will support and co-ordinate the different service offerings 'products' within ESG which are practice-led via key ESG sub-committees, as well as support the Sectors with their ESG efforts.

**Requirements**:

- LLB, Admitted Attorney
- Post graduate Diploma and Professional Registration
- Prior experience in a Knowledge Lawyer / Professional Support Lawyer role in a law firm is preferred but not essential.

**Responsibilities**
- Advise fee earners on available precedents, templates, other know-how and research materials.
- Provide technical legal input into training programmes, including training delivered by external providers, with a view to developing expertise of fee earners.
- It will require the drafting of articles, alerts, thought leadership and guides; development of client and internal training materials and programmes; know how development and precedent drafting; and coordinating and driving content development for client-facing 'packaged products'.
- Support on research required to pursue strategic market opportunities is also required as well as preparation of speaker notes and talking points when our lawyers present at external conferences.
- Facilitate and/or deliver training in areas of legal expertise, as appropriate.
- Draft and keep updated standard form precedents and other know how (as required).
- Prepare and be responsible for internal know-how alerts to fee-earners on new developments and raising awareness of new know
- how content available.
- Use current awareness and legal knowledge to contribute ideas and prepare content for externally facing alerts, newsletters and other marketing publications or client seminars, as appropriate in collaboration with the Business Development, Marketing and Communications team.
- Keep abreast of relevant legal and market developments and advise relevant stakeholders in a timely manner.
- Work with relevant stakeholders to automate standard precedents and templates.
- Work with the Legal Services Centre to identify opportunities to enhance legal services delivery to improve efficiency and market competitiveness by using LPM and/or legal technology.
- Maintain and develop know how collections of relevant and up to date materials and liaising with stakeholders to contribute as necessary.
- Provide advice on legal issues and assist with the formation of “house views” on points of law.
- Use legal knowledge to support the development of new services and products as required.

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