Knowledge & Innovation Lawyer for Debt Finance at Goodwin. Collaborating with leaders to support legal content and know-how for U.S. practitioners.
Responsibilities
Drafting, updating and managing model documents, precedents, checklists, benchmarking surveys, market trend reports, and other substantive content for the Practice, ensuring such content is up-to-date and readily accessible on the firm’s intranet and other content-sharing platforms.
Work with Debt Finance partners to author and publish the “Debt Download”, Goodwin’s monthly newsletter to clients and investment professionals curating and analyzing industry news for leveraged finance; in addition to circulating internal weekly market updates to the Debt Finance practice.
Serve as a source of legal, market and practical expertise; identifying and collecting key data points of the Practice’s legal work for statistical analysis and post-deal assessments, benchmarking and market trends.
Monitor and proactively alert the Practice of important legal and market developments relevant to the Practice; supporting the writing and publication of external client alerts on such developments.
Supporting the evaluation, pilot testing, and responsible use of Generative AI tools by the Debt Finance practice, including assessing use cases, gathering lawyer feedback, developing workflows and prompts, and contributing to pilot programs.
Develop curriculum for, and participate in, training initiatives for the Practice, including internal training sessions, client workshops, and other firm educational training programs.
Work with the Knowledge & Innovation team to develop solutions to increase efficiency, enable legal project management and improve legal service delivery of the Practice; such as generative AI templates and workflows, document assembly packages, expert systems and client-facing solutions.
Participate in K&I team meetings to facilitate the sharing of best practices and knowledge, and perform such other duties as requested by the K&I Department.
Assist in business development efforts for the Practice, including thought leadership initiatives, client seminars and pitches, to elevate the awareness and value of the Practice and the firm’s K&I program.
Requirements
Juris Doctor required.
7+ years legal experience within the debt finance practice of a large law firm or a debt market industry expert.
Passion for knowledge-sharing, efficiency and excellence in legal work, and prior experience as a knowledge and/or innovation practitioner within a law firm or in-house legal department preferred.
Well established understanding the leveraged/debt finance market.
Experience using AI in the performance of legal services and strong interest in working with legal technology, such as artificial intelligence, document automation, and collaboration platforms.
Benefits
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Life and disability insurance
Retirement & Savings Plan
Emergency back-up child and adult care
Paid vacation, sick time off, and holidays
Professional development and career advancement opportunities
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