Knowledge Lawyer - Corporate in Birmingham

Reporting to the Head of Corporate and liaising with the firm’s Head of Knowledge, you will enhance the efficiency, quality and consistency of the Corporate team’s work. You will join an established knowledge function alongside a London-based PSL colleague who focuses in particular on Capital Markets. This role concentrates on M&A and broader corporate advisory work, supporting fee earners across both offices. The role is varied, and encompasses the usual PSL activities:

• Developing and maintaining precedent documents, ensuring they reflect current law, market practice and regulatory developments.
• Creating know-how resources - practice notes, checklists, model clauses and transaction guides.
• Organising and, where appropriate, delivering training for lawyers at all levels, covering technical updates, transactional skills and market trends.
• Researching technical queries (the team has access to Practical Law, FromCounsel and Lexis).
• Monitoring legal and regulatory developments, tracking changes in legislation, case law and regulatory guidance, and circulating updates to the team.
• Horizon scanning to identify upcoming legal or regulatory changes affecting clients or the practice.
• Preparing client briefings and alerts on significant legal developments or market trends.

A key aspect of this role will be exploring and implementing new technologies, including AI tools, to improve productivity and service delivery. You will identify opportunities to streamline processes, enhance document review and support legal research. We are not looking for a technology expert - rather, someone with genuine curiosity, a proactive mindset and the enthusiasm to champion innovation. All of this at a firm which is genuinely committed to harnessing the benefits of technology having invested in a legal AI business and is one of the few in its market to have adopted Harvey on an enterprise-wide basis.

You will be a qualified solicitor with corporate transactional experience, ideally M&A focused. Whether you are transitioning from fee-earning or already have PSL experience, you will have strong technical grounding and a genuine interest in developing others. You will be organised, self-motivated and comfortable working autonomously whilst collaborating effectively across the firm. You will communicate clearly and distil complex concepts into practical guidance. Above all, you will bring energy, curiosity and a forward-thinking approach.

We are a leading Top 50 UK law firm seeking an experienced Knowledge Lawyer to join our Corporate team in Birmingham. This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified solicitor with an M&A background to take on a varied and influential role, supporting one of the firm’s key practice areas whilst helping to shape how we use technology to deliver legal services.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits, a collaborative environment, and genuine development opportunities. You will make a real impact on how our Corporate team operates and play a central role in the firm’s innovation agenda. The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 26 consecutive years. Excellent benefits, including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• Generous annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week’s extra annual leave.
• Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members.
• A generous pension allowance.
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary.
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years.
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes.
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes.
• State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant.
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development.

Many of our people work flexibly in some way. If you would like to explore your own flexible working arrangements with us, we are happy to discuss this during the recruitment process.

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment. At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone’s potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. Any offers we make will be conditional subject to clearance by the SRA, evidence of eligibility to work in the UK and DBS clearance.