Knowledge Lawyer - Corporate

Knowledge Lawyer - Corporate

Date Posted: 2026-08-22T00:00:00

Location: Leeds

Region: West Yorkshire

Country: GB

Postcode: LS1 3

Application Deadline: 2026-11-20T09:02:14.293

Reference: 0588

We have an exciting opportunity for a Knowledge Lawyer to join our growing, national Corporate group. The role offers an engaging environment to develop your expertise and contribute to innovative legal services.

The Role

We're looking for an experienced Corporate Knowledge Lawyer to join our national Corporate team. Working alongside our established Knowledge Lawyers, you'll play a key role in helping our lawyers deliver exceptional client service by providing technical legal support, managing know-how and precedents, delivering training, and driving innovation across the practice.

This is a highly collaborative role, partnering with colleagues across Corporate, Knowledge, Business Development, Tech, and Digital teams to shape the future of legal services through legal tech, AI, and process improvement. The role can be based in any of our offices, with occasional travel required.

The Person

• You'll be a qualified solicitor (England & Wales) with at least 5 years' PQE and significant experience in a high-performing corporate practice.
• You'll bring:
• Strong technical corporate law expertise and commercial awareness.
• A genuine interest in knowledge management, legal innovation, and AI.
• Experience with legal tech and/or document automation tools.
• Excellent research, drafting, and communication skills.
• Strong organisational and project management capability.
• A collaborative approach and the confidence to build trusted relationships across the business.
• Enthusiasm for learning, sharing knowledge, and helping others succeed.

If you're passionate about combining legal expertise with innovation, technology, and knowledge sharing, we'd love to hear from you.

The Activities

• Develop, maintain and enhance corporate precedents, know-how resources, and automated document suites.
• Provide technical legal support and guidance to lawyers across the Corporate team.
• Deliver engaging legal updates, training sessions, and thought leadership content for colleagues and clients.
• Capture and analyse know-how from transactions to drive continuous improvement.
• Champion legal tech, document automation, and AI adoption across the practice.
• Collaborate on innovation projects with Knowledge, Tech, and Digital teams.
• Support business development activities, pitches, tenders, and client-facing materials.
• Research legal, policy, and market developments to identify opportunities for new and enhanced client services.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. If interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

The Benefits

As you'd expect, we offer a competitive salary and a wide range of benefits. Details of our core benefit offerings can be found by contacting us directly.

Pre-employment Screening

If we offer you a role, we will conduct comprehensive pre-employment screening, including a basic DBS, verification of your right to work, a three-year employment history, and a self-declaration to assess your character and suitability.

The Firm

Mills & Reeve is centred on achieving more for clients, their businesses and the wider communities. Our knowledge and learning enable us to deliver consistent, bespoke advice tailored to individual needs. With over 1,450 staff and more than 850 lawyers, our vision is to achieve more for our clients.

Joining Mills & Reeve offers the chance to develop your skills within a top UK law firm that values its people. We are ranked in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work and have received Platinum Investors in People awards. Our motto is "Achieve more. Together."

Our Values

• Ambitious: We aim high, embrace new ideas, and are passionate about our work.
• Open: We communicate honestly to build trust and do what's right.
• Caring: We are committed to each other, our clients, communities, and the planet.
• Collaborative: We work easily with others, lend help willingly, and achieve goals together.

Our Commitment

Everyone at Mills & Reeve contributes unique perspectives and ideas. We strive to provide an inclusive and supportive environment, consider flexible working arrangements, and support workplace adjustments as needed.

For more information on our diversity and inclusion initiatives, please visit our website.

Vacancy Details

• Title: Knowledge Lawyer - Corporate
• Offices: Birmingham, Cambridge, Leeds, London, Manchester, Norwich, Oxford
• Contract: Permanent
• Closing Date: 28 August 2026

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bring:Strong technical corporate law expertise and commercial awareness.A genuine interest in knowledge management, legal innovation and AI.Experience with legal tech and/or document automation tools.Excellent research, drafting and communication skills.Strong organisational and project management capability.A collaborative approach and the confidence to build trusted relationships across the business.Enthusiasm for learning, sharing knowledge and helping others succeed.If you're passionate about combining legal expertise with innovation, technology and knowledge sharing, we'd love to hear from you.The activitiesYou'll:Develop, maintain and enhance corporate precedents, know-how resources and automated document suites.Provide technical legal support and guidance to lawyers across the Corporate team.Deliver engaging legal updates, training sessions and thought leadership content for colleagues and clients.Capture and analyse know-how from transactions to drive continuous improvement.Champion

legal tech, document automation and AI adoption across the practice.Collaborate on innovation projects with Knowledge, Tech and Digital teams.Support business development activities, pitches, tenders and client-facing materials.Research legal, policy and market developments to identify opportunities for new and enhanced client services.We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.The benefitsAs you'd expect, we offer a competitive salary and a wide range of benefits. Click here to find out more about our core benefit offering.Pre employment screeningIf we offer you a role, we will conduct comprehensive pre-employment screening. This screening will include, but is not limited to, a basic DBS, verification of your right to work, a three year employment history and a self-declaration to assess your character and suitability for the role. Full details of our pre-screening employment process are available upon request.The firmMills & Reeve is centred on achieving more for clients, their businesses and the wider communities we serve. Our clients and their industries benefit from our knowledge and learning, and receive consistent experiences with no surprises. We tell them what they need to know when they need to know it. We build personal relationships, with advice individually tailored to individual need. And if clients need things we don't offer, we draw on our network to give recommendations. Our 1,450 plus people and over 850 lawyers share one vision - achieving more for clients.By joining Mills & Reeve, you'll have the chance to build your skills and experience within a firm that's not only ranked in the top 50 UK law firms, but also one that truly values their people. We're also ranked in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work list, and have been awarded Platinum Investors in People. Our mantra is "Achieve more. Together.", which we feel embodies our purpose and is more than just a catchphrase!Our values are the principles that help us fulfil our purpose. Our people shaped them and live them every day.

• We're ambitious - We aim high, we embrace new ideas and we're passionate about our work We're open - We communicate openly and honestly to build trust, and we do what's right We care - We're committed to each other, our clients, our communities and the planet We collaborate - We're easy to work with, we offer help willingly and we get things done - togetherAnd finallyEveryone at Mills & Reeve brings a unique perspective and ideas to the team and we do everything we can to help each person to thrive. We're committed to providing an inclusive and supportive working environment, are happy to consider flexible working arrangements, and want to achieve the right balance for both our people and the firm. We encourage everyone to ask if they