Massachusetts-Boston, California-Los Angeles, New York-New York City, California-San Francisco, California-Silicon Valley, District of Columbia
Description
As the Knowledge & Innovation Lawyer for the Global M&A group, you are an experienced lawyer who will be a member of one of the legal industry’s leading Knowledge Management departments, known for award-winning and innovative KM systems and approaches. Working as an embedded Knowledge & Innovation Lawyer supporting the Global M&A group (the "Practice"), you will work closely with the practice leaders and will draw upon your legal expertise and prior experience to support this group by providing the highest quality legal content and know-how for our U.S. practitioners. What You’ll Do: Create, develop and maintain model documents, forms, precedents, checklists, and other substantive content for the Practice, ensuring such content is up-to-date and readily accessible on the firm’s intranet and other content-sharing platforms. Monitor and inform the Practice of important legal developments relevant to the Practice; supporting the writing and publication of external client alerts on such developments. Develop curriculum for, and participate in, training initiatives for the Practice, including internal training sessions, client workshops, and other firm educational training programs. Work with the Knowledge Management team to develop solutions to increase efficiency, enable legal project management and improve legal service delivery of the Practice; such as document assembly packages, expert systems and client-facing applications. Participate in Knowledge Management Department meetings to facilitate the sharing of best practices and knowledge, and perform such other duties as requested by the Knowledge Management Department. Assist in business development efforts for the Practice, including thought leadership initiatives, client seminars and pitches, to elevate the awareness and value of the Practice and the firm’s KM program. Who You Are: Juris Doctor required. 7+ years legal experience practicing as an M&A attorney within the U.S., either in a large law firm or in house legal department. Passion for knowledge-sharing, efficiency and excellence in legal work. Interest in working with legal technology, such as document automation, artificial intelligence and collaboration platforms. #LI-MS1 Consistent with the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, an arrest and conviction record will not automatically disqualify a qualified applicant from consideration. Goodwin Procter LLP is an equal opportunity employer. This means that Goodwin Procter LLP considers applicants for employment, and makes employment decisions without unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or other legally protected status. Please note: Various agencies of the United States government require employers to collect information on applicants and employees. The National Association of Law Placement (NALP) and certain clients request us to keep track of certain aggregate information regarding lawyers. EEO information requested on this application is for purposes of compliance with these recordkeeping and reporting requirements and to determine recruiting and employment patterns. Submission of this information is voluntary and refusal to provide it will not subject you to any adverse treatment. This position is eligible for overtime: No Target Salary Range: Boston $180,000 - $235,000 | Los Angeles $180,000 - $235,000 | New York $200,000 - $240,000 | San Francisco $200,000 - $250, 000 | Santa Monica $180,000 - $235,000 | Silicon Valley $200,000 - $250, 000 | Washington DC $180,000 - $235,000