The Legal Education and Development Assistant will provide general
development assistance for the Legal Recruitment and Development team
in order to provide an effective and efficient administrative function
for the Firm.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES (This list is not exhaustive and
may be supplemented and changed as necessary and dependent on team workload)
Development and Training
Responsible for creating attendance surveys (Novi Survey tool),
running the reports and inputting, updating and maintaining the
attorney training records in the London office
Checking US weekly and monthly training reports and making any
required adjustments on the Firm's tracking system
Creating attorney development onboarding and leaver checklists
Issuing departing attorneys with training reports/certificates
Assisting with arranging Practice Group trainings (attorneys and
trainees) including Attorney Training Calendar, booking rooms,
issuing calendar invitations, updating training tracker
Issuing compliance courses to new attorneys and tracking completion
Providing London attorneys reports on their training compliance
(England & Wales, US, Brussels, France)
Creating CLE training accreditation applications and liaising with
US peers to ensure London training is accredited for US admitted
attorneys and filing materials
Liaising with US peers on Learning Management System (LMS)
trainings and London attorney attendance
LMS administration including and not limited to creating events,
lessons, learning paths and applying training credits
Assisting with Brussels and French attorney training requirements
including making training accreditation applications
Booking external courses and obtaining necessary approvals and
maintaining budget spreadsheet
Assisting with Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Colleagues
for Life initiatives and events.
Processing invoices and department Barclaycard expenses.
Assisting with administration of any mentoring scheme
Assisting with admin for attorney engagement activities
Undertake any other tasks or responsibilities that reasonably fall
within the remit of this position.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education, Work Experience, Skills
Educated to degree level ideally (although will consider
candidates educated to A Level standard if also have relevant
experience as per below)
Some proven professional services experience in Development (legal
development ideal). Some experience of working in a law firm
training team is preferred. An understanding of legal development
compliance is helpful or law firm experience generally
Excellent customer service orientation with excellent
communication skills and the ability to work with attorneys and
staff at all levels
Ability to think critically and pro-actively and problem solve and
a "can-do" attitude
Ability to effectively prioritise and respond to multiple service
requests, often while working under tight time constraints and
juggling multiple workstreams