Knowledge & Innovation Lawyer (Debt Finance)

Join Goodwin’s Global Operations Team, and make a real impact on a global scale. At Goodwin, we work with some of the world’s most successful and innovative investors, entrepreneurs and disruptors in the life sciences, private equity, real estate, technology and financial industries, and where they converge. As part of the Global Operations Team – all business professionals at the firm – you’ll collaborate with colleagues from varied backgrounds and experiences, fostering an environment where cross-functional learning, networking, and collaboration are at the core of what we do.

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This is your opportunity to grow professionally in a dynamic, global environment, surrounded by forward-thinking peers.

As the Knowledge & Innovation Lawyer supporting Goodwin's Debt Finance legal practice, you are an experienced lawyer who will be a member of one of the legal industry’s leading Knowledge Management groups, known for award-winning and innovative KM systems and approaches. Working as an embedded Knowledge & Innovation Lawyer within the Debt Finance practice, you will work closely with the Debt Finance leaders to monitor market and industry trends and produce internal and external newsletters, in addition to advancing other knowledge and innovation projects for the Debt Finance practice.

The Knowledge & Innovation Lawyer is a subject matter legal expert within the designated legal practice area(s), primarily responsible for creating and maintaining substantive legal know-how for such practice area(s); this includes model forms and precedents, checklists, market trend reports and deal terms tracking, and other substantive knowledge resources. The Knowledge & Innovation Lawyer will also be responsible for monitoring developments in the law and applicable industries, preparing internal and external alerts, updating relevant knowledge sharing platforms, participating in and developing curriculum for attorney training programs, responding to internal requests for information in relevant legal subject areas, and promoting firm best practices and technologies to increase efficiency and improve the delivery of legal services.  This role is an integral member of the Knowledge Management team, who works closely with designated practice area leadership to advance knowledge management and client service driven initiatives.

What You Will Do:
•     Drafting, updating and managing models, precedents, checklists, benchmarking surveys, market trend reports, and other substantive content in designated subject areas to ensure such content is up-to-date and reflects market practice.
•    Monitoring and proactively alerting legal practice area(s) on developments in legal subject areas and applicable industries, and supporting the preparation of external client alerts on such developments.
•    Updating internal knowledge sharing platforms in designated legal subject areas, such as the firm’s Knowledge Tree and the applicable legal practice area folders, to ensure know how is readily accessible.
•    Responding to internal requests for information relating to relevant legal subject areas. 
•     Participating in deal term tracking initiatives for their practice, and analyzing the data to leverage relevant trends and market intelligence.
•    Supporting the development of practice-specific solutions to increase efficiency, enable legal project management and improve legal service delivery; such as, developing document assembly packages, expert systems or client-facing applications, and serving as a legal workflow expert to support such development. 
•    Monitoring, recommending and assisting with the evaluation of new technologies that promote efficiency, legal project management and legal service delivery within relevant legal subject area(s); and participating in the implementation, roll-out and adoption phases of such new technology offerings. 
•    Promoting firm best practices and procedures; including advising and training attorneys and legal staff on effective of use of knowledge management platforms and technology within relevant legal subject area(s).
•    Collaborating with Business Unit leadership and Learning & Professional Development to develop curriculum for, and participate in, training initiatives, including legal practice area meetings, client workshops, and other firm educational training programs. 
•    Supporting Marketing and Cl