Professional Support Lawyer

White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide. Our long history as an international firm means we are perfectly placed to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they may be.

With lawyers and staff operating from more than 40 locations, working in virtually every country of the world, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality full-service practice competing at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on-the-ground presence in the world's key financial markets and our strengths in handling complex cross-border work.

It is not just about our global network of offices and shared services centres; it is the global interconnectedness of the Firm that our people, and our clients, value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries. It is one of the reasons we attract and retain cross-border work.

Our lawyers are globally minded, enterprising, collaborative, and committed to excellence. Our people represent 90 nationalities and speak 80 languages.

Our global Practice Solutions teams keep White & Case at the forefront of today's changing legal landscape. We help lawyers practice smarter as they deliver world-class client service. Our work ranges from helping the Firm leverage the latest legal, client and market knowledge to providing front-line support for legal teams in their client work.

The Practice Solutions function is under the leadership of the Chief Innovation Officer and comprises five teams: Professional Support, Research & Market Intelligence, Practice Technology, Business Intelligence, and Innovation and AI. Our professionals use information management, research, data, technology, and training solutions to help our lawyers work efficiently and collaboratively to benefit our clients.

An experienced lawyer who will help to deliver the knowledge and innovation strategy for the Group and to shape and influence policy and implement projects to meet the Group's knowledge needs, with particular focus on Strategic M&A (both public and private companies) and Private Equity transactions.

The PSL will monitor developments in the legal and business environment to keep both the Group and its clients up to date and identify areas to develop the Firm's reputation and practice; provide legal and practical expertise to support the Group's practice (both through responding to fee earner queries and through the mentoring of junior lawyers); help create, develop and manage the Group's collection of forms, precedents and research materials in a manner that integrates with our AI platforms; organise, design and deliver Group training; work with Group members and the other Business Services departments to identify opportunities to develop business from new and existing clients; and provide other support as needed.

The individual will ideally have been exposed to matters involving private equity/private credit, energy, infrastructure, health care, life sciences or other key industry groups, and while this is not a necessity, this role will require the individual to pick up a working knowledge of these areas.

Specific responsibilities described below may vary depending on the Group's needs.

Lawyer Training and Technical Expertise

• Be a source of legal, market and practical expertise for all members of the Group and more widely around the Firm, including the provision of direct support for client matters where appropriate;
• Work with the Group and other Professional Support team members to identify practice-related training needs of the Group; organise, design and deliver (personally or with others) Group training, including seminars, workshops and offsite training;
• Work with the wider Professional Support team to develop any global training programs, as required by the partners;
• Be involved in Firmwide training programs, as required, including core training programs, innovation and technology-related programs and induction courses; and
• Mentor trainees and associates.

Current Awareness, Client - Facing and Thought Leadership

• Monitor and keep the Group and the Professional Support team informed about important developments in the law or business environment;
• Use own knowledge and expertise to identify trends in the law or business environment with particular emphasis on [developments relating to public and private companies and legal developments in the M&A markets] and help the Group to develop new legal products, identify possible new services, and suggest innovative ways to deliver the Firm's services more efficiently to its clients;
• Prepare regular current awareness newsletters for the Group and the Firm's clients;
• Work with the Research & Market Intelligence team to determine requirements and policies and to implement processes for practice-related current awareness and alerts from internal and external sources;
• Author and publish research on legal developments or new areas of law relevant to the Group;
• Participate in industry events relevant to the Group to raise the Firm's profile as a thought leader where appropriate; and]
• Work with the Group, and others in Business Services, to identify opportunities to develop business from new and existing clients through writing articles and briefing notes and preparing and delivering client training.

Standard Forms and Know-How

• Draft standard forms and develop accompanying notes;
• Ensure standard forms are updated to reflect changes in law, regulation, market standards and best practice;
• Conduct matter debriefs for precedent collection and deal or market analysis;\
• Create practice notes and other useful know-how;
• Operate and implement procedures for capturing, filtering, storing, accessing and disseminating know-how within the Group including capturing matter descriptions and categorisations in the Matter Profiling system and as needed to maintain a strong precedent database to use with new AI tools; and
• Publish material on the Firm's intranet and KM systems and encourage fee-earners to use KM systems and other resources.

Central Practice Solutions and Knowledge Projects

• Be a champion for rolling out new innovation or knowledge systems to the Group with other Professional Support Lawyers, where appropriate; and
• Contribute to global innovation and knowledge programs and projects to support Firm collaboration, efficiency and to enhance U.S. law expertise across the Firm.

Miscellaneous

• Assist lawyers with queries;
• Attend regular global, regional and practice meetings of the Professional Support team; a
• Attend external training and conferences to keep up-to-date with relevant developments in the law, business environment and professional support.

• Sound legal experience in Mergers and Acquisitions in a large law firm or financial institution legal department; and
• At least six years' relevant post qualification experience
• Admitted to the New York State Bar Association
• Commercial awareness and client orientated approach;
• High professional standards with commitment to quality product;
• Excellent drafting and research skills;
• Well-developed organisational and communication skills;
• Understanding of learning process and different ways of training;
• Personality to make impact in group and to shape and influence policy;
• Effective people skills and ability to interact with people at all levels, including other support areas;
• Pragmatic, initiative-taking, flexible and good team-worker;
• Lateral thinker with initiative to establish, implement and complete projects; and
• Comfortable with IT and familiar with market trends in AI/innovation technologies.

• Location: New York
• Reports to: Chief Innovation Officer, Practice Solutions Leadership

Our Internal Recruitment team are responsible for all end-to-end lateral recruitment process. All agencies must sign White & Case terms of business which are often specific. Candidates submitted by an agency without terms of business agreed with the appropriate office, and/or outside of our online application tracking system, will not be considered a formal introduction. Any applications and CVs sent directly to White & Case Partners and employees will not be accepted as formal introductions. If you have any questions, please contact the Americas Lateral Recruitment team.

White & Case is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and is committed to creating a fair workplace. It is our Firm's policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.

Applicants who are interested in applying for a position and require an accommodation during the process should contact talent.acquisition@whitecase.com.

White & Case LLP offers a comprehensive suite of benefit programs to all eligible employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability coverage, 401(k) retirement savings, vacation time, and leave programs (including parental leave). Exempt roles are also performance bonus eligible.

11The above is a general description of the essential duties associated with this position and does not represent an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all duties.