Job TitleDirector of Expertise and Legal Learning, EMEALocationLondonDescriptionAt Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helpingshape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legalprofessionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisationsto solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, witha distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, andfinancial services. Our people work on market-leading matters thatdrive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world.ForAshurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?Flexible work optionsHealth and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discountedcorporate health plansCareer advancement - client secondment opportunities, globalopportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programsThe Opportunity:Knowledge & Expertise (K&E) is ahighly regarded global function encompassing expertise & legallearning, research & business intelligence, and knowledge management.Our K&E specialists empower ourlegal teams with insights, skills and tools so that they can deliverexceptional client service across the globe. They:equip our practices with high quality research and thoughtleadership and maintain our legal knowledge and information resources;enable our lawyers to achieve practice excellence through legallearning programs and mentoring; andenhance our legal teams' work and client delivery by implementingnext-generation tools and technologies, and by driving consistencyin our legal documents and processes.The creation of Ashurst Perkins Coieprovides the springboard for us to develop a truly advanced global andAI-enabled expertise offering for our lawyers and clients, withconsistency in quality our 'North Star'.This newly uplifted EMEA RegionalDirector role offers the opportunity for the successful candidate tojoin our expertise function and our ambitious and inclusive K&Esenior leadership team (SLT) as we start this exciting next growthphase. We welcome applications from candidates across the EMEA region.The expertise function drives quality,efficiency and profitability through the development of expertiseresources, the capture of practice experience and partner knowledgeand through the delivery of quality initiatives and legal learningprograms. It also supports the firm to win work through thoughtleadership and enables Ashurst Perkins Coie to anticipate and react tochange as 'one firm' through its coordinated network of expertisepartners and expertise lawyers.The expertise function has a hybridstructure, with staff based in practices and centrally. This modelrecognizes that an effective expertise function at a firm of AshurstPerkins Coie's scale requires expertise partners and expertise lawyerswho are embedded in practice groups, close to the work and deeplyconnected to their teams, together with central leadership,coordination and support, to ensure strategic alignment, quality andconsistency across the firm.About you:The Regional Director will lead theelevation of the firm's expertise function, in close collaborationwith their APAC counterpart, building on recent work which hasstrengthened the expertise lawyer role and improved expertise coverageacross priority jurisdictions and practices.Key objectives of the role include:establishing a global, integrated approach to expertise for ournewly combined firm;ensuring the expertise function evolves to respond to emergingareas of law and practice and to address the opportunities andchallenges presented by AI, automation and changing business needs;embedding the Ashurst Perkins Coie combination by drivingconsistency and excellence in legal services firmwide, leveragingthe full breadth of the firm's expertise to support our combinedfirm ambitions; andleading the central regional expertise team (currently four directreports), inspiring and overseeing their performance and deliverables.The Regional Director will join theK&E SLT, reporting to the Executive Director for Knowledge &Expertise and working closely with the other K&E Directors and theK&E Steerco to lead, shape and deliver the firm's global Knowledge& Expertise strategyThe successful candidate will:A senior lawyer with deep technicalexpertise, practice experience and at least 10 years'post-qualification experience in a legal role.At least 5 years' experience as anexpertise lawyer (or equivalent PSL role) and further experience ina leadership role within a Knowledge & Expertise (or equivalent)function in a leading international law firm, professional servicesfirm or legal department OR equivalent partner-level experience.Proven leadership capability, with atrack record of inspiring, motivating and developing high-performingteams in a professional services environment.Sufficient standing and experience tolead and line manage senior expertise employees and to advise andcollaborate with senior management, expertise partners and othersenior stakeholders.Ability to manage networks, influencesenior stakeholders and bring a reflective, strategic, globalperspective to planning and discussions.More information can be found in the job description attached tothe role on our careers site Careers | Ashurst Perkins Coie#LI-HYBRID #LI-GD1
Director of Expertise and Legal Learning, EMEA employer: Ashurst
At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration. Our London office provides flexible working options, comprehensive health and wellbeing benefits, and numerous opportunities for career advancement through global exposure and award-winning learning programmes. Join us to be part of a forward-thinking team that is shaping the future economy with cutting-edge technology solutions.
