Litigation & Regulatory Knowledge Development Lawyer

Step into a role that sits at the crossroads of legal excellence, innovation and thought leadership. At DLA Piper, knowledge is at the core of how we deliver exceptional outcomes for clients across the globe. As our new Knowledge Development Lawyer for the Litigation & Regulatory (L&R) practice, you’ll help shape the way our lawyers work, learn and innovate, influencing everything from legal content and training programs to the adoption of AI and emerging technologies.

This is an opportunity to build a modern legal career in a collaborative, forward‑thinking global firm where your insights will directly elevate the capability of our teams and the experience of our clients.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Lead and execute the Litigation & Regulatory Knowledge strategy
  Oversee the knowledge agenda, including curating, maintaining and embedding precedents, templates, insights and lessons learned into practice.
• Champion AI and innovation in legal service delivery
  Drive the safe adoption of AI, co-design AI use cases, embed AI-driven workflows, and maintain high-quality knowledge inputs for AI in litigation.
• Enable high-quality legal work and collaboration
  Support lawyers with legal research, facilitate matter debriefs, embed learnings into resources, and promote a strong culture of knowledge sharing locally and internationally.

About you

• A senior Australian qualified lawyer with considerable practice experience in litigation and regulatory (or equivalent) preferably with experienced in investigations work
• Curious and progressive mindset with active engagement of AI and legal innovation
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to connect, influence and collaborate.
• Experience of developing knowledge resources and delivering training.

About us

We're a global law firm helping our clients achieve their goals wherever they do business. Our pursuit of innovation has transformed our delivery of legal services. With offices in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, we deliver exceptional outcomes on cross-border projects, critical transactions and high-stakes disputes.

For our people, which means a world of opportunity. You'll shape the future, have the freedom to seize opportunities, and discover your own path. Together, we unlock our potential and redefine what we can achieve.

Agile 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.