Senior Knowledge Management Attorney For Ip Transactions And Life Sciences

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Senior Knowledge Management Attorney for IP Transactions and Life Sciences

Responsibilities: Working closely with the Practice Group Leaders (“PGLs”), partners and other buyers in the practice groups, and coordinating with members of the firm’s knowledge management, professional development and practice development departments. Help the IPT and LS groups assess its KM needs and define its KM goals and priorities. Identify, recommend and implement effective strategies and solutions in light of current and ongoing developments in each practice. Stay current and advise attorneys on legal developments in the venture capital and licensing areas, with a strong focus on life sciences and TMT industries, and track market developments and trends. Prepare substantive memoranda and other practice insight resources, including client alerts; present at practice group and partner meetings. Implement document management and precedent tracking system for the IPT and LS groups, including meta-tagging deal information to facilitate user search and working with client matter teams to ensure uniform use of preferred filing systems. Develop new forms and improve precedent and checklist management systems. Update KM resources to reflect legal changes and developments. Advise the group’s attorneys on substantive questions within areas of expertise and regarding use of appropriate forms, precedents, checklists and other KM resources, and assist them in tailoring KM resources for specific client needs. Prepare and advise attorneys on the preparation of KM-related client deliverables. This may include, among other responsibilities: drafting legal memoranda and conducting legal research in response to discrete client questions. Assist in maintaining deal term grids (summaries of deal terms). Serve as the IPT and LS groups’ representative on firm-wide KM-related task forces and working groups; share, coordinate, and adopt best practices. Coordinate on behalf of the IPT and LS groups with respect to firm-wide and Corporate Department KM initiatives, and with other practice groups. Train attorneys, paralegals and others on the group’s KM resources, precedent and forms libraries, and other KM matters and systems. Assist in maintaining practice group reference and training materials. Evaluate and recommend third-party resources (industry organizations, conferences, publications, etc.) that deliver legal and market knowledge relevant to the IPT and LS practices. Strengthen links between knowledge sharing and the information systems, and improving integration among information systems across the firm to facilitate the seamless exchange of information and data.

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Ropes & Gray LLP.
Prudential Tower 800 Boylston Street
Boston
Massachusetts
United States 02199
Website : https://www.ropesgray.com/