Senior Knowledge Lawyer

City of London Permanent £90,000 - £130,000 per year View Job Description
This is a senior-level knowledge role focused on shaping and delivering a firm‑wide knowledge strategy within a leading UK-based law firm. The position combines strategic influence, hands-on legal content development, and close collaboration with lawyers, clients, and business services teams.
  • Shape firm-wide knowledge strategy at a senior level
  • Combine legal expertise with innovation and leadership

About Our Client

Our client is a large, multi-office UK law firm with a strong international footprint and a well-established knowledge function. The firm is known for its collaborative culture, innovation in legal services delivery, and commitment to high-quality client service across multiple practice areas.

Job Description

As a Senior Knowledge Lawyer, you will play a key role in driving the firm's knowledge management strategy in line with wider business objectives. Acting as a trusted adviser to legal teams, you will support the delivery of a global knowledge offering while overseeing the creation, maintenance, and evolution of legal know-how across the firm.

The role is both strategic and hands-on, involving close partnership with senior stakeholders, practice groups, business development, IT, and risk and compliance teams. You will also lead on legal training initiatives and contribute to the development of junior members of the knowledge team.

The Successful Applicant

  • Act as a senior member of the knowledge team, helping shape and deliver the firm's knowledge strategy
  • Support the Chief Knowledge Officer in delivering a consistent, global knowledge offering
  • Draft, review, and maintain precedents, templates, model documents, and other legal know-how
  • Oversee the delivery of legal training, webinars, and podcasts for lawyers and clients
  • Liaise directly with clients to deliver legal learning and content solutions
  • Coordinate practice-specific knowledge projects aligned to identified business needs



Additional responsibilities

  • Act as a trusted adviser to legal teams, translating requirements into practical solutions
  • Lead content strategy in collaboration with business development teams
  • Monitor legal, regulatory, market, and industry developments and produce insights and briefings
  • Lead practice technology initiatives, driving adoption and change
  • Collaborate with IT on knowledge, technology, and innovation projects
  • Work closely with risk and compliance to support best-practice risk management
  • Manage and develop junior team members, providing supervision and mentoring

What's on Offer

  • A strategically influential role within a well-resourced knowledge function
  • High visibility across the firm and exposure to senior leadership
  • Opportunities to shape innovation, legal training, and client-facing knowledge initiatives
  • A collaborative, supportive culture with a strong emphasis on professional development
  • Competitive salary and benefits package
Contact
Tom Mastin-Lee
Quote job ref
JN-042026-7007843
Phone number
+442072692143

Job summary

Job function
Legal
Subsector
Litigation
Sector
Business Services
Location
City of London
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Tom Mastin-Lee
Consultant phone
+442072692143
Job reference
JN-042026-7007843