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Practice Development Lawyer

Posted 22 Mar 2024
Work experience
2 to 5 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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We’re a national law firm with a local reach. Our philosophy is ‘Expert Hand, Human Touch’ – something you’ll find in the way we work with our clients and how we support our teams. But, we’re more than just a law firm – we’re a team, working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life’s ups and downs.

Whichever team you join, working here you’ll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment. We’ll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things, and make a real difference to our clients and communities.

The work we do has been recognised in the awards we’ve won. We’re committed to being even better, and our awards help to show we’re on the right track.

Your Role

We’re currently recruiting for a Practice Development Lawyer (PDL) to support the Knowledge Management activities in our national Restructuring and Insolvency and banking teams. This role is home based but you are also welcome to work out of any of the Irwin Mitchell offices in line with our Flexible by Choice approach. A willingness to travel will be essential.

What You'll Be Doing

Working as a Practice Development Lawyer, you’ll play a key role in contributing to Knowledge Management initiatives and projects in your practice area, ensuring relevant and up to date legal knowledge is easily available to support our teams in their day to day legal work, supporting client/relationship retention and contributing to business winning activity. You'll also contribute to a number of our firm wide knowledge management activities, representing your practice areas and helping to shape our processes and services, and supporting the implementation our Knowledge Strategy.

What We're Looking For

As a practising lawyer, it’s important that you have an interest in knowledge management and information, and are keen to undertake horizon scanning; keeping up-to-date with any legal developments and helping others to understand these changes and how they can be implemented firm wide. Ideally, it would be great if you had experience working as part of a project team, but this isn't essential.

Given the nature of the role, it’s essential that you hold a current Practising Certificate. You may already have experience arranging and delivering technical training and helping to draft articles and other communications which can be shared with our clients and the wider market to promote Irwin Mitchell. You’ll be an effective communicator so you can work well with all our colleagues, as well as being able to articulate opinions and ideas clearly and objectively.

This role would be a fantastic opportunity for an experienced lawyer looking to transition in to a PDL role.

What we can offer you

  • 25 days annual leave, with the opportunity to buy additional leave
  • Two fundraising days in a year to give back to the community (fully paid!)
  • Westfield Health membership, offering discounted leisure and travel and refunds on medical services

We also offer a huge number of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace as well as flexible working options to ensure that you are fully supported to work the way that best suits you. Our social responsibility programme is fundamental to who we are. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish. We have a range of groups to celebrate our people across sexuality, disability, age, gender and culture.

Additional Information

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, existing employees, clients, partners and other stakeholders.

Depending on the role you apply for we may carry out checks that will establish your eligibility to work in the UK, and criminal record check and financial checks with a credit reference agency will also be undertaken

Irwin Mitchell has lawyers across the UK specialising in business legal services, personal legal services and private wealth advice.
The company has a group structure with Irwin Mitchell Holdings Limited sitting above Irwin Mitchell LLP and a number of subsidiaries. Our office network covers Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Southampton and Sheffield. The 2015 merger with Thomas Eggar means…


Irwin Mitchell has lawyers across the UK specialising in business legal services, personal legal services and private wealth advice.

The company has a group structure with Irwin Mitchell Holdings Limited sitting above Irwin Mitchell LLP and a number of subsidiaries. Our office network covers Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Southampton and Sheffield. The 2015 merger with Thomas Eggar means the firm also has offices in Gatwick, Newbury and Chichester, plus additional offices in Southampton and London. Irwin Mitchell Scotland LLP is a separate Scottish legal practice regulated by the Law Society of Scotland and has an office in Glasgow.

Irwin Mitchell is the expert hand, with the human touch and their solicitors get to know the client and their needs.

Recent awards include Private Client Team Of The Year at the Legal Business Awards in 2016 and Claimant Solicitor of the Year at the Rehabilitation First Awards in 2015.

The Irwin Mitchell independent registered charity, the Irwin Mitchell Charities Foundation (IMCF), has made over £1 million of charitable donations since its formation.

Legal
London
2,000 employees