Knowledge Lawyer (Projects and Infrastructure Industry Group)

Overview

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.We are a collegial, collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realize their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Knowledge Management department in our Chicago, New York, Los Angeles or Houston office, as a Knowledge Lawyer.

An experienced lawyer who will help to develop the Knowledge Strategy for the Projects and Infrastructure Industry Group (collectively, “the Group”) in the United States and globally, and implement projects to meet the Group’s knowledge needs; monitor developments in the legal and business environment in order to keep both the Group and its Clients up to date; provide legal and practical expertise to support the Group’s practice, both directly and through the mentoring of junior lawyers; create, develop and manage the Group’s collection of standard forms/models, precedents and research materials; help organize, design and deliver Group training; help evaluate and support adoption of modern tools for legal services configuration and delivery, including artificial intelligence,; and provide other support as needed.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions:  

• Knowledge Strategy
  • Work with the Knowledge Partners, the other Knowledge Counsel and Lawyers whose support globally relates to Projects and Infrastructure issues, and the Senior Director: Knowledge Management to assess the knowledge needs of the Group and for the coordination of cross-Practice efforts that relate to Projects and Infrastructure. Define and implement a plan to meet those needs that is aligned with the business goals of the Group, and mechanisms for regular review of the plan

• Organizing and Sharing: Standard Forms and Document Collections
  • Work with Group members, and others, to create and capture Projects and Infrastructure-related knowledge content and encourage the sharing of information and knowledge generally, and to coordinate with other Practices to encourage and implement consistency across Practices in relation to Projects and Infrastructure issues and policies
  • Create and maintain a well-organized electronic collection of practice-related knowledge resources, which include in particular Projects and Infrastructure standard forms and accompanying notes, precedent documents, best practices and how-to memos, legal memos and other materials useful to the Group
  • Help the Knowledge Department generally to tailor the Firm’s knowledge resources to meet the needs of the Group

• Current Awareness and Thought Leadership
  • Monitor and keep the Group informed about important developments in the law or business environment
  • Prepare regular current awareness newsletters for the Group
  • Work with the librarians to determine requirements and policies and to implement processes regarding practice-related current awareness and alerts from internal and external sources

• Lawyer Training and Technical Expertise
  • Work with the Group and the Learning and Development team to identify practice-related training needs of the Group; and, building on existing training programs, organize, design and deliver (personally or with others) Group training, including seminars, workshops and offsite training
  • Train Group members how to access knowledge resources on the Mayer Brown Intranet and elsewhere
  • Mentor associates
  • Provide direct support to individual practitioners to assist them with locating practice-related internal and external knowledge resources
  • Be a source of legal, market and practical expertise for all members of the Group, including the provision of direct support for client matters

• Practice Group Pages on the Intranet
  • Develop and maintain the knowledge-related aspects of the Group’s Mayer Brown Intranet site(s)
  • Matter Management and Collaborat