Description:

Job Description:
The Role:
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced lawyer to join our Banking & Finance team in New York. This is a newly created role intended to support our Banking & Finance team by providing practice support, knowledge management, horizon scanning, thought leadership and training.

Key Responsibilities:
Practice Support:

Provide precedent and resource recommendations, legal research, and guidance on a wide variety of banking and finance matters
Coordinate with the firm's opinion committee to update and maintain the legal opinion template
Facilitate access to the firm's resources and services, including recommending lawyers with relevant expertise in other groups or offices

Knowledge Management:

Collect, curate, and make easily accessible a collection of precedents, templates, checklists, and other know-how materials relevant to banking and finance matters
Collaborate with lawyers across the firm's network on firm-wide knowledge management initiatives

Horizon Scanning:

Regularly follow key information sources to identify relevant litigation, regulatory, and market developments, trends, risks, and best practices
Provide relevant updates to the group periodically and on an ad hoc basis via newsletters, emails, and team meetings

Thought Leadership:

Produce client briefings, blog posts, conference presentations, and other types of thought leadership pieces to provide valuable resources to our clients and enhance the firm's reputation
Support business development and marketing initiatives by contributing substantive content to external newsletters or as part of pitches

Training:

Organize and deliver training on a range of relevant topics and developments, both internally and to clients
Coordinate applications for NY CLE credit and ensure related requirements are met
Provide tailored training to new joiners and curate accessible training opportunities and resources relevant to banking and finance matters

Qualifications:
Qualifications:

The ideal applicant will possess the following qualifications:

Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited US law school
Admitted to the New York Bar
At least six years of experience practicing law, with a focus on bank finance or restructuring of debt products
Strong legal research and analytical skills
Ability to create, manage, and update legal precedents, templates, and other knowledge resources
Experienced in organizing and producing training sessions, briefing and presentation for lawyers and clients on a broad range of legal topics

Other preferred skills and competencies include:

Must be proactive and self-motivated
Ability to identify team needs and develop plans or strategies to address such needs
Strong interpersonal skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including public speaking and presentation skills
Able to work independently as well as collaboratively with other professionals