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Products Professional Support Practitioner Jobs in Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium at Cooley LLP
Title: Products Professional Support Practitioner
Company: Cooley LLP
Location: Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium
About Cooley
Cooley is a leading global law firm with over 1300 lawyers across 19 offices in the United States, Asia and Europe, working with innovative often disruptive companies and investors across all stages.
Our London office has strengths across many of the firm’s core practice areas, among them product compliance & liability, complex high-stakes litigation, corporate/M&A, venture capital, capital markets, technology and life sciences transactions, IP, tax, competition, employment, compensation & benefits, fraud, data protection and privacy.
Our Brussels office opened in February 2019. Our lawyers work closely with London and US teams to advise clients on complex EU regulatory & products compliance, antitrust & competition, and privacy & data protection.
Our clients partner with us on transformative deals, complex IP and regulatory matters and high-stakes litigation where innovation meets the law. As a firm we constantly strive to deliver the highest quality work and superior service on every matter entrusted to us.
Working at Cooley provides an opportunity for collaboration, challenge and reward. We are all part of one firm dedicated to maintaining a diverse workplace that values and celebrates differences. It is the unique abilities and perspectives of every individual at Cooley that creates a rewarding workplace, and a key part of what makes us Cooley. Our people-first culture, philosophy and firmwide commitment to inclusion and wellness is central to our success and the driving forces behind our global growth.
Our cooperative spirit is the trademark of the Cooley culture and every employee in every department is instrumental to the success of the firm. Cooley is devoted to continually advancing our standing as one of the world’s greatest law firms, and we believe part of that is achieved when we live up to the promise of making our firm a great place to work.
Product Compliance and Litigation Practice
Cooley’s renowned Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 Tier 1 ranked Products Law practice comprises a team of 7 partners, together with a substantial number of associates and special counsel, based throughout the US and Europe. The practice focuses on providing global strategic regulatory counselling, liability risk management, and product liability defence to leading and innovative companies around the world.
This is an exciting opportunity for an entrepreneurial and commercially minded Products Professional Support Practitioner (PSP) to play a leading role in shaping the knowledge, training and innovation strategy of Cooley’s market-leading Products practice, based in London. The right candidate would be given the opportunity to become a key player in both the team’s delivery of market-leading advice and in supporting the team’s position as a notable thought leader in this area.
Position responsibilities:
Among the tasks for which the Products PSP will be responsible for are:
- Legal Know-How and Updates: Monitoring UK and EU legal and regulatory developments and practice updates relevant to the Products group including horizon tracking; involvement in thought leadership; preparing summaries and alerts (internal and for clients); ensuring new legal developments and practice improvements are captured and reflected in our various internal and external resources.
- Legal Education: Leading the Products group’s substantive legal training function, including chairing know-how meetings, delivering training on legal topics and coordinating training topics delivered by others; identifying (group or individual) training needs for fee earners.
- Industry and client engagement: Attending industry conferences and supporting the Products group’s business development objectives by identifying emerging market trends and opportunities for client engagement. Supporting with the preparation of training and presentation materials for clients.
- Form and Precedent Drafting/Management: Preparing template documents (or revising existing precedents). Curating and organising the Products group’s forms, precedents and other know-how; working with the firm’s Knowledge Services function to identify ways in which knowledge capture and document management can be innovated / automated.
- Assisting with Individual Fee Earner Requests: Building relationships with fee earners; helping field day-to-day requests for precedents, templates, training; and other resources.
- New Initiatives: Being involved in knowledge management and practice innovation projects, together with the Firm’s wider Legal Education and Knowledge Services teams.
- Other duties: Performing other related duties as assigned or required.
Skills and experience:
Our ideal candidate will be an established Products Professional Support Lawyer at an international law firm, preferably at least 4+ PQE. However, we will also consider lawyers from international law firms or in-house looking to transition into this type of role.
We will also consider candidates from other backgrounds and with other qualifications if they have the right experience and skillset to produce the deliverables outlined above. Please contact us if you think that might be you.
Success Factors:
A successful candidate for this role will possess and demonstrate the following attributes:
- Legal Know-How: Strong technical legal interest and ability (ideally in UK & EU Product law) and meaningful prior Products / regulatory experience.
- AI and Legal Innovation: Demonstrable interest in legal technology, knowledge management and AI-enabled and other legal technology solutions, with the ability to identify opportunities to improve efficiency, enhance knowledge sharing and support the delivery of high-quality legal services.
- Organisational Skills: Ability to prioritise work product, meet deadlines and manage a varied workload in a fast-paced environment.
- Drive: Ability to work autonomously and proactively take ownership of the London Products know-how function; desire to innovate and support new initiatives.
- People Skills: Effective interpersonal, written and oral communication; strong presentation skills.
Diversity, equity and inclusion statement: We strive to create an inclusive and rewarding environment that allows our people to thrive both professionally and personally. In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at the Firm will be based on merit, qualifications and abilities. The Firm does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation. This policy governs all aspects of employment, including but not limited to, recruitment, selection, job assignment, compensation, discipline, promotion, termination, and access to benefits and training.
