DLA Piper’s Real Estate Group comprises real estate lawyers in more than 40 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the US. We pride ourselves on leveraging our collective knowledge and skills and training our teams to support the delivery of a high-quality service on major international real estate assignments.
The Firm’s International Quality strategy is delivered by Knowledge Professionals in collaboration with dedicated Knowledge Partners and input from our lawyers in a manner that is tailored to meet the needs of each Group and Sector.
We are looking for an experienced lawyer (based in England) to join our Real Estate Knowledge team as a Knowledge Development Lawyer, reporting to our Head of Knowledge for the Real Estate Group, to work closely with our established Real Estate Knowledge team and our partners and fee earners in the UK, and to support the International practice.
The role can be performed successfully from any of our English offices. We are ideally seeking a full-time commitment (which can include flexible working), although the role could be successfully completed by someone working four days per week. It will require occasional travel.
The purpose of the role is to:
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The role will involve:
– Taking the lead role in developing, updating and maintaining the real estate group’s standard documents and technical legal/practical know-how guidance for England and Wales. Assessing whether documents are needed or not, and updating them to reflect current law and practice.
– Working with our automation team to automate suites of standard documents, where appropriate.
– Using those standard documents and guidance to support the international real estate practice.
As a secondary role, supporting our existing knowledge development lawyers with:
ABOUT YOU
We would be pleased to consider applications from individuals currently working in practice or who already have some Knowledge development experience.
ABOUT US
DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers and business service professionals located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.
OUR VALUES
In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.
Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.
HYBRID WORKING
We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That’s why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.
PRE-ENGAGEMENT SCREENING
In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits and where relevant, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and work-related references.