Description:
Overview:Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world's major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.
We are a collegial, collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realize their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm's client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.
If you thrive in a collaborative environment that values exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, we invite you to consider joining our Knowledge Management department in our Chicago, or New York office as a Knowledge Counsel (Projects and Infrastructure).
The Knowledge Management Counsel creates, curates and updates substantive legal resources, standard forms, precedent, training, and current awareness for their practice group, and drives the adoption of AI tools and innovative technology within the practice. The role captures and structures institutional expertise, reduces risk and duplicated effort, and equips attorneys to deliver consistent, efficient, and high-calibre client service. Working closely with practice group attorneys, the Knowledge Management Counsel embeds market experience into the knowledge assets produced and keeps them current and commercially relevant.
Responsibilities:
Essential Functions:
Knowledge Strategy
- Partner with practice leadership to assess knowledge needs and develop and implement a strategy to address them and align with the practice's business priorities
- Clearly and consistently communicate the knowledge strategy to the practice group
- Regularly review the knowledge strategy and its execution to inform and update priorities and strategic decisions
- Monitor and keep the practice group up to date and ahead of the curve on relevant developments in law and business
- Lead the capture, creation, drafting, updating and ongoing enhancement of market-leading knowledge resources, including standard forms, precedent documents, best practices, how-to-memos, legal research documents and other relevant resources for the practice group
- Maintain and expand the practice's project finance and development knowledge resources, including deal-closing protocols, renewable project finance deal trackers, local counsel and specialist databases, diligence templates, legal opinions, model credit documentation, and precedent collections for key project agreements
- Apply substantive project finance judgment to classify precedents, identify meaningful deal terms and market distinctions, and help attorneys locate the most relevant documents for lender-side, sponsor-side and development matters
- Assess, develop and collect attorney feedback on practice workflows and identify and implement appropriate knowledge management and practice solutions to improve efficiency and effectiveness of client service delivery
- Ensure knowledge resources are readily accessible and remain current and aligned with practice needs
- Conduct periodic and regular updates (including matter debriefs) with attorneys to support know how collections
- Oversee the systematic capture of project finance and development know-how at matter closing, coordinating with deal teams to collect final transaction documents, update trackers and databases, and preserve reusable lessons learned
- Verify data accuracy within KM systems and ensure effective data collection processes
- Work with other stakeholders to implement new workflows and technology solutions that improve data capture
- Advise and act as a trusted sounding board for partners and attorneys on technical legal queries and, where appropriate, collaborate directly with clients on service delivery
- Advise on and mitigate risk for the practice group by keeping abreast of legal and regulatory developments that impact the practice, working closing with risk partners and the firms Legal Risk Management team
- Meet regularly with attorneys in the practice group to obtain insights relevant to improving knowledge management resources, strategy and technology resources
- Work with the practice group and Business Development & Marketing to establish processes to capture matter descriptions and categorizations in the firm's matter systems
- Coordinate project finance and development deal submissions and taxonomy with Business Development, including the transition to new firmwide deal-collection tools and the ongoing accuracy of matter descriptions and transaction classifications
- Assist with setting up a process for producing closing binders and collecting valuable precedent documents
- Develop and advance expertise on emerging technologies and knowledge management systems relevant to the practice group, including AI-driven applications
- Build, curate and maintain practice-specific AI and precedent resources for project finance work, including secure document collections and workflows covering PPAs, EPC agreements, O&M agreements, tax equity and tax credit transfer agreements, and other core financing and project documents
- Apply and reinforce firm information-governance requirements when using AI tools, including confirming that documents placed in shared knowledge collections have appropriate access and security setting
- Partner with Knowledge Counsel, Knowledge Management, Legal Technology & Innovation, Practice Management and other technology and business services teams to identify, evaluate, pilot, configure and deploy solutions that meet attorney needs and drive more efficient client service delivery, leveraging and building upon existing firm tools and technology platforms rather than developing solutions from scratch
- Drive implementation and adoption of legal technology, including generative AI and document automation
- Help evaluate generative AI capabilities, including developing, testing, and refining prompts for specific legal tasks aligned with practice needs and firm best practices
- Act as a subject matter expert on the effective use of legal technology and AI within the practice group
- Work with the Legal Project Management team on legal process improvement and project management initiatives for the practice group
- Develop and enhance AI and other technology systems based on attorney feedback on KM systems, as well as client feedback
- Work with attorneys to translate practice-specific workflows into scalable, technology-enabled solutions and advise on improved processes and new tools
- Collaborate with internal data, innovation and transformation teams to leverage AI in enhancing the firm's knowledge assets – streamlining classification, producing draft profiles for review, and enriching content with metadata that makes it findable and useful
- Work with the practice group to define practice-specific metadata, including legal topics, document types and the data points that matter to how they practice
- Contribute to the firm's governance of AI assets – including prompts, workflows and agents – ensuring they are portable and vendor-agnostic, able to be shared across systems rather than locked into a single platform
- Research, monitor and inform the practice of key legal and market developments and trends including their impact on attorney practice and clients
- Identify opportunities for the practice to use its internal know-how, expertise and insights to pursue business opportunities and raise its profile in alignment with the practice's strategy and priorities, including active involvement in client pitches and cross-selling the practice's capabilities in collaboration with other practice groups across the firm
- Draft, research and assist partners and attorneys with the legal content for client alerts, articles, thought leadership pieces and other client-facing products as needed by the practice, in all cases demonstrating the practice's leading technical capability and market awareness
- Support attorneys in strengthening client relationships by developing, and where appropriate, delivering client training, seminars and talking points
- Work with partners and attorneys in collaboration with Learning & Development to identify and plan core practice-related training, including ideas for utilization of technology and different approaches to deliver an engaging training program for the practice including team training, seminars, workshops and offsite training
- Develop and deliver substantive training on project finance fundamentals, transaction structures, diligence, core financing and project documents, market developments, and associate best practices; maintain an
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