Professional Support Lawyer

Firm Summary

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 47 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's not just about our global network of offices and shared services centers; it's the global interconnectedness of the Firm that our people, and our clients, value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries. It's 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.

Position Summary

Duties and Accountabilities¹

Current Awareness and Thought Leadership

• Monitor and inform the group about significant legal developments, identifying trends in the law or business environment 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
• Support the Group in the delivery of timely thought leadership (client alerts, articles, podcasts, webinars etc.) relating to Antitrust
• Lead certain profile-raising projects, such as the White & Case Antitrust Merger StatPak and other innovative practice initiatives
• Use own knowledge and expertise to identify trends

External Know-How and Trainings

• Support the Group - internally in training and externally in thought leadership in antitrust, specifically in the preparation of client presentations relating to recent antitrust developments, and compliance training
• Participate in industry events to promote the Firm's thought leadership and create and disseminate internally Know-How on Antitrust topics
• External Know-How and Trainings

Internal 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
• Develop and update practice notes and guidance to reflect changes in law, regulation, and market standards, especially as related to the HSR Act
• Create and maintain standard form documents and collections of precedent documents from closed transactions
• Identify practice-related training needs of the Group; organize, design and deliver Group training, including seminars, workshops and offsite training, independently or in collaboration with the wider Practice Solutions group
• Assist lawyers with day-to-day legal queries
• Provide onboarding for all new joiners, secondees and newly qualified lawyers to the Group
• Be involved in firmwide training programs, as required, including core training programs and induction courses
• Mentor associates

Collaboration with Marketing & Business Development Team

• Work with the Group and Marketing Team to establish processes to capture matter descriptions and categorizations in the Matter Profiling System; assist with capturing matter descriptions once process is in place
• Produce substantive content for pitches

Central Knowledge Projects and Miscellaneous

• Champion the implementation of new knowledge systems and technology
• Contribute to global knowledge programs and projects to enhance Firm collaboration and Antitrust expertise
• Provide professional support updates in meetings, and attend Professional Support meetings, global PSL conference calls, and external training to stay updated with legal developments
• Central Knowledge Projects and Miscellaneous

Qualifications

• Commercial awareness and client orientated approach
• At least four (4) years' legal experience
• Commercial awareness and client orientated approach
• High professional standards with commitment to quality product
• Excellent drafting and research skills
• Well-developed organizational 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 interpersonal skills and ability to interact with people at all levels, including other support areas
• Pragmatic, self-motivated, flexible and good team worker
• Lateral thinker with initiative to establish, implement and complete projects
• Comfortable with IT, including experience or willingness to leverage integration of AI into existing and new workflows