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 New York, Chicago, or Washington, D.C. office as a Knowledge Lawyer or Counsel (US ERISA, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation).
The Knowledge Management Lawyer 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 Lawyer embeds market experience into the knowledge assets produced and keeps them current and commercially relevant.
Responsibilities:
Essential Functions:
Knowledge Strategy
- Partner with practice leadership and Knowledge Counsel to assess knowledge needs and develop and implement a strategy and plan to address them, with particular focus on ERISA, employee benefits, executive compensation, and M&A benefits support priorities.
- Clearly and consistently communicate the knowledge strategy to the practice group.
- Regularly review the knowledge strategy and its execution to inform priorities and strategic decisions.
- Monitor and keep the practice group up to date and ahead of the curve on relevant legal, regulatory, enforcement, agency, and market developments affecting employee benefits, executive compensation, ERISA Title I, II and IV, qualified and nonqualified plans, health and welfare plans, and transaction-related benefits and executive compensation issues.
- Lead the capture, creation, drafting, updating and maintenance of market-leading knowledge resources, including standard forms, precedent documents, plan governance templates, fiduciary and prohibited transaction memos, ERISA fund formation templates, qualified plan and health and welfare compliance checklists, executive compensation and equity compensation templates, 409A checklists, legal research documents and other relevant resources for the practice group.
- Develop and maintain M&A benefits support resources, including diligence request lists, benefits diligence report forms, issues lists severance and change-in-control arrangements, 280G analyses, model purchase agreement provisions, disclosure schedule review guides, and closing and post-closing integration checklists.
- Assess, develop and collect attorney feedback on practice workflows, including benefits diligence, regulatory update tracking, precedent management, plan document review, and executive compensation issue spotting, and identify and implement appropriate knowledge management and practice solutions to improve efficiency and effectiveness of client service delivery.
- Develop a practice intranet page and develop content and update the group's external website
- Ensure knowledge resources are readily accessible on the intranet practice pages and the Global Knowledge Bank and remain current and aligned with practice needs.
- Conduct matter debriefs with attorneys to support know how collections.
- 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 ERISA, employee benefits and executive compensation queries and, where appropriate, give advice directly to clients.
- Advise on and mitigate risk for the practice group by keeping abreast of legal and regulatory developments that impact the practice, working closely with risk partners and the firm's 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, practice spotlights and press releases for external marketing and categorizations in the firm's matter systems, including benefits advisory, executive compensation, Title I , II and IV, and M&A benefits support experience.
- Assist with setting up a process for collecting valuable precedent documents and, for transactional matters, organizing benefits diligence materials, purchase agreement provisions, disclosure schedules, closing deliverables, ancillary documents, and post-closing integration resources.
- Develop and maintain expertise on emerging technologies and knowledge management systems relevant to the practice group, including AI-driven applications.
- Partner with Knowledge Counsel, Knowledge Management, Legal Technology & Innovation and other technology and business services teams to identify, evaluate, pilot, build and deploy solutions that meet attorney needs and drive more efficient client service delivery for employee benefits, executive compensation, and M&A benefits support work.
- Develop or support tools for benefits diligence automation, precedent clause banks, plan document and agreement review, regulatory update tracking, executive compensation and equity-plan issue checklists, 409A and 280G workflows, Title I, II and IV issue spotting, and AI-enabled research and drafting.
- 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.
- Gather attorney feedback on KM systems, technology, and AI to guide adoption, and document best practices and lessons learned.
- 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, regulatory, enforcement, agency, and market developments and trends affecting employee benefits, executive compensation, ERISA fiduciary matters, ERISA Title I, II and IV matters, retirement plans, health and welfare plans, compensation disclosure, equity and incentive compensation, and benefits and executive compensation issues in M&A transactions
- Identify opportunities for the practice to use its internal know-how, expertise and insights to pursue business opportunities and raise profile to align with the practice's strategy and priorities
- Draft, research and assist partners and attorneys with the legal content for client alerts, articles, thought leadership pieces, CLE programs, and other client-facing products as needed by the practice, in all cases demonstrating the practice's leading technical capability and market awareness
- Play a key role in 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 ERISA Title I, II and IV, qua
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