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Pensions Knowledge Lawyer / Senior Knowledge LawyerBe among the first 25 applicants.Role ProfileWe are looking for a Knowledge Lawyer or Senior Knowledge Lawyer to provide dedicated further Knowledge support for our highly regarded Pensions team. This is a parttime, three days a week role. You can be based at any of our offices (London, Reading or Bristol) and will benefit from the Firm's connected working policy.Our Pensions TeamThe Pensions Team advises employers, trustees and local authorities in order to help them run their pension schemes compliantly, while managing risks. The Pensions Team also runs one of the UK's leading independent trustee companies, Open Trustees, so has direct experience of operating pension schemes.Risk reduction and risk transfer exercises (such as buyins, buyouts and alternative funding arrangements).Pension Protection Fund (PPF) assessment periods, insolvencyrelated pension issues and regulatory compliance.The Local Government Pension Scheme (authority, employer and contractor issues).The pensions aspects of corporate acquisitions and disposals, scheme mergers, government outsourcings, insolvencies, restructurings and windups.Emerging defined contribution schemes.The team is also involved (alongside Osborne Clarke's Disputes and Resolution team) in acting for employers, trustees and representative beneficiaries on complex litigation claims, including professional negligence and Part 8 claims.The Pensions Team currently consists of 7 partners and 21 other fee earners and professionals.OpportunityKnowledge is at the heart of Osborne Clarke's strategy, and you will join an innovative, marketleading and highly supportive Pensions Team and wider Knowledge Team. The Pensions Team sits within our Advisory Practice Group. This role's principal purpose is to provide dynamic, technically excellent, business and clientfocused support to the Pensions team. You will work closely with our Pensions Knowledge Lawyer Director, the Pensions Partners, the Head of Advisory Knowledge and other members of the Knowledge Team as well as sales and marketing professionals.Key ResponsibilitiesKeep the Pensions Team uptodate on legal and regulatory changes across the team's practice, including producing a comprehensive regular Pensions Knowledge News Update and readerfriendly internal updates on relevant developments.Organise the delivery of legal training, deliver legal training and facilitate knowhow sharing.Understand and promote AI applications and other technology to the work of the Pensions Team, including its risk management and processes.Maintain and expand a technically excellent collection of precedent documents, designed with our clients and excellent client service in mind.Assist in the preparation and delivery of clientfacing presentations, seminars and workshops, including preparation of presentation content for lawyer speakers.Prepare clientfacing publications on developments with a client impact, including targeting and placing content in Pensions journals and/or other publications.Deal with queries from lawyers across the firm regarding current Pensions law and practice.Lead the Pensions Team's response, where relevant, to government consultations on new or amended Pensions law.Skills and ExperienceStrong technical capability in relation to Pensions law and regulation that affect businesses and the application of it to reallife business issues. Recent experience of risk reduction and risk transfer exercises (such as buyins and buyouts) is helpful.Due to the technical nature of the work, we are looking for someone who is legally qualified with a solid foundation of postqualification experience in Pensions. You may currently be a feeearning lawyer in private practice or working within the legal team of a business, in academia or in a knowledge role elsewhere, or returning to work after a career break.Ability to present information clearly and confidently to internal and external audiences both in writing and when speaking.Proactive selfstarter with excellent organisational skills, high level of technical accuracy, and strong collaboration skills within a crossdisciplinary team.If you are unsure whether your qualifications and experience are right for the role, please contact us we are always happy to have informal conversations with people who would like to join our team.Salary and BenefitsWe offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.Recruitment ProcessPlease note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decisionmaking.We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.About UsOsborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 partners and more than 1 260 talented lawyers in 26 locations. Our sectorbased approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it is fundamental to our success.At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks not to mention our great teams are a part of making that a reality.Seniority LevelMidSenior levelEmployment TypeFulltimeJob FunctionLegalIndustriesLaw PracticeReferrals increase your chances of interviewing at Osborne Clarke by 2.#J-18808-Ljbffr