Practice Support Lawyer - Intellectual Property

Overview

Practice Support Lawyer - Intellectual Property

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Job Description

At K&L Gates, we are looking for smart, imaginative and hard-working people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas to join us. Perhaps our search for talented visionaries and your search for important and impactful work lead to the same place.

Position Summary

The Practice Support Lawyer (PSL) is responsible for creating, maintaining and updating the knowledge and practice innovation assets and services for their assigned practice areas, as required by the relevant Practice Area Leader partners, Director of Practice Operations and Director of Practice Innovation (Director). Reporting to the Director, the PSL will provide support to their assigned practice areas and designated firmwide projects across a range of knowledge management (KM), innovation, generative AI, precedents, client growth, professional development and practice support initiatives.

Essential Duties

• Develop, review and manage precedent and intellectual property for the practice area, which includes assisting practice lawyers and PSLs to organize and facilitate knowledge, precedents, and innovation forums and projects
• Apply, contribute to, and promote the development of a firmwide KM process to drive consistency, currency and excellence in precedents and knowledge assets and systems within (and across) the practice(s)
• Build close working relationships with partners, lawyers and allied professionals in the relevant practice areas; maintain a good understanding of the legal services provided by the practice areas and its clients / industries; be proactive in finding opportunities to increase efficiency through process improvement or the application of legal technology (including generative AI); and ensure knowledge, innovation and precedents services meet practice area needs
• Ensure compliance with firm policies, protocols and standards relevant to KM, data governance, and generative AI use, and that applicable policies and protocols are communicated in a clear and timely way
• Keep abreast of legal technology available at the firm to drive productivity, and help identify opportunities to apply solutions
• Work with lawyers in the practice area to help identify use cases for AI or generative AI applications, agentic AI solutions, and automated workflow, including helping define, test, iterate and embed such solutions, both for the practice area and (where appropriate) client-facing solutions
• As required, provide support for document and workflow automation and collaboration projects including design, analysis, mapping, testing and training
• Collaborate with IT developers, data scientists, adoption and change management resources to help drive development and adoption of innovative practice solutions
• Drafting and editing precedents, guidance notes, checklists, client growth pitches and RFPs, training materials and presentations, legal updates and any other communications
• Use visual communication of legal advice and provide consultation to practice areas on visual standards, where appropriate
• Answer client growth and knowledge / innovation related enquiries from partners, lawyers and allied professionals, including Client Growth team members responding to client pitches and RFPs, and assist with the review and editing of pitch related materials for client proposals
• Communicate with the assigned practice areas on developments with KM resources, available legal technology solutions, and successful use cases
• Keep up to date with legal developments in relevant practice area and help advance practice innovation and professional development to reflect those advancements
• Assist with developing and delivering training on legal and practical knowledge and innovation topics

Additional Duties - May Also Include

Experience And Skills Required

Base Compensation $200,000 - $300,000 / year

The compensation salary for this position will be determined during the interview process and will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to prior experience, relevant expertise, current business needs, and market factors.

In accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act, qualified applicants for our Los Angeles and San Francisco offices with arrest and conviction records will be considered.

Benefits

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

The Firm is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of the Firm that employment decisions shall be based on merit, qualifications and competence. Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by virtue of a person's race (including traits associated with race, including hair texture and protective hairstyles such as afros, braids, locks, and twists), religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, gender, parental status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, familial status, domestic violence victim status, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. This policy governs all aspects of employment including, without limitation, recruiting, hiring, compensation, benefits, promotion, assignment, and dismissal. In addition, it is the Firm's policy to provide an environment that is free of prohibited harassment of any kind including, without limitation, harassment based on sex, race, age, disability, ethnic background, or any other category protected by law. The Firm complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please contact askHR@klgates.com

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