Professional Support Lawyer - Corporate

This position involves a variety of PSL duties, detailed further below, and demands strong, up-to-date expertise within Corporate / M&A and wider legal market. Exceptional drafting and communication skills, a genuine interest in legal technology and innovation, and a solid academic background are essential. In return, we offer high-quality work, a competitive salary and benefits package, flexible working arrangements, and a friendly, collaborative and supportive culture.

Key experience and skills required

• Minimum 4 years recent relevant experience as corporate/M&A practitioner or Corporate PSL in large Irish or international corporate law firm with demonstrably strong knowledge of relevant practice area.
• Excellent legal drafting and writing skills and experience in drafting legal agreements.
• Excellent legal research and analysis skills and attention to detail.
• High degree of technical knowledge and competency within Corporate / M&A practice area and a practical and client-centric focus.
• Ability to identify and focus on key issues and exercise a high degree of commercial as well as technical judgment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication / presentation skills.
• Demonstrate interest in L&D.
• Pro-active with ability to work on own initiative.
• Highly motivated with strong organisational and project management skills.
• Keen understanding of the commercial market in which the Firm operates and familiarity with recent market trends.
• Ability to develop and maintain excellent working relationships with colleagues at all levels.
• Willingness/ability to work as part of a highly motivated, efficient team.
• Driven to consistently provide a highly professional service which aligns with needs of team.

Other key areas of responsibility

• Responsibility for developing/improving best practice processes for creating, capturing, curating and disseminating knowledge and supporting the team.
• Review, creation and updating of teams’ precedents (including precedent legal agreements) in line with market practice and legal/regulatory developments and development / maintenance of the Teams’ precedent bank.
• Review, creation and updating of the teams’ know-how in line with market practice and legal/regulatory developments and development / maintenance of the teams’ know-how database.
• Review, creation and updating of team position papers and practice notes on various relevant corporate and commercial law issues in line with market practice and legal/regulatory developments.
• Co-ordinate and organise the teams’ internal CPD Programme, including knowledge projects (and involvement in external CPD events for alumni or clients).
• Promote legal awareness via the preparation and delivery of legal briefings to fee-earners about relevant legal and market developments (including as part of Team or Firm CPD Programme).
• Ensure timely dissemination of relevant knowledge materials and legal updates within the team.
• Generate timely and insightful articles, briefings, newsletters, e-zines, client e-bulletins or other materials for circulation to clients or wider publication (including online and print media publication) for knowledge, marketing or BD purposes and co-ordinate / support generation of such content by fee-earners.
• Act in an advisory capacity in supporting fee-earners and clients with complex legal research queries, particularly regarding new or emerging topics, issues or areas of law.
• Identifying and delivering innovative approaches to managing and sharing knowledge for the benefit of fee-earners and clients, including working with wider knowledge and ICT teams for this purpose.
• To extent required, preparing, delivering and managing client-facing knowledge and training initiatives.
• Contribute to continuing development of role and actively participate in the development of the Team’s goals.