Data Protection Knowledge Lawyer - London, United Kingdom - Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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We're Norton Rose Fulbright - a global law firm with over 50 offices and 7,000 employees worldwide.

Our
London office is currently recruiting for
Data Protection Knowledge Lawyer.

As well as the relevant skills and experience, we're looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do.

We celebratemultiple approaches and points of view and believe diversity drives innovation, so we're building a culture where difference is valued.


The Team


We are now looking for a data protection - Senior Knowledge Lawyer to work in the London team but also to interact with the global data protection group (in particular the European team) and more widely within Norton Rose Fulbright LLP.


The Senior Knowledge Lawyer position reports directly into the Head of the European Data Protection Group who is located in London, with a reporting line to the Head of Knowledge, EMEA.


Key Responsibilities

  • Tracking current legal and technological developments and informing the team and our clients (including by way of blog posts) of important new developments
  • Maintaining existing precedents and drafting new precedents, including policies and contractual privacy terms and conditions
  • Reviewing existing practice notes and similar materials, and drafting new practice notes, including from scratch in complex areas of data protection law
  • Providing knowledge support to business development initiatives, including in the key industry sectors and key client initiatives of Norton Rose Fulbright
  • Preparing and delivering legal training to associates, partners and clients as part of a structured programme tailored to suit the team's / client's needs
  • Drafting material for external or internal publications and identifying topics of interest
  • Feeding into the knowledge team's knowhow strategy and implementing such strategy by promoting the use of internal databases and by implementing a process for data privacy knowhow collection (research notes, transactional documents, training material etc)
  • Helping to promote the collection and dissemination of knowledge to and from London in relation to the global data protection group, including by acting as a knowledge liaison point in relation to the global group

Skills and Experience Required

  • Qualified lawyer with significant legal experience in data protection law, operating at a senior level
  • Good understanding of key data protection environments and related initiatives (ad tech ecosystem and financial ecosystem in particular; life sciences and health tech ideally too*)
  • Experience in drafting data protection polices, templates and related agreements in plain language
  • Experience in designing and delivering successful, interesting and innovative training, targeted to the audience
  • Ability to work with a variety of personalities across all levels of the organisation
  • Experience, or interest, in the collation, storage and delivery of knowledge
  • Project management experience and demonstrated creativity in problem solving
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Excellent legal research skills
  • Experience of using knowledge collaboration sites*(*Desirable but not essential)
Our clients come first and whilst we have a high performance culture and work hard as a team, in return we offer range of competitive benefits including:


  • 25 days hols + Bank hols
  • Buy up to 5 days:
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GP Service:

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Bupa Healthcare:

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Pension:

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Flexible working


In addition, we are proud of our established health and wellbeing programme which supports our employees through mental, physical and lifestyle challenges.


Norton Rose Fulbright is committed to promoting a diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace where everyone can realise their full potential and career ambitions on the basis of merit and skill.

We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employmentpolicies, flexible working arrangements, and employee networks. Find more about Diversity and Inclusion here.

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