Employment Practice Development Lawyer

Pinsent Masons is seeking a Senior Practice Development Lawyer to join our Employment team. Applicants are welcome from any UK office, excluding London.

Why this role is special

• Work closely with our lawyers and directly with clients to deliver cutting‑edge knowhow, training, and legal products.
• Shape and deliver strategic knowledge initiatives that make a real difference to clients and our practice.
• Innovate, lead, and influence how we deliver value to clients.
• Be part of a close‑knit, collaborative PDL community across the firm.

Background to the role

Your role will be client‑facing, solutions‑focused and sit at the heart of our knowledge strategy and client relationships.

What will we offer you?

• A supportive and friendly working environment with warmth, dedication, and a passion for excellence.
• Autonomy, responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships with great clients.
• A market‑leading, dynamic and growing global team that produces outstanding results for clients.
• Investment in training and career development, regular 1:1s, career discussions and appraisals.

Purpose of the Role

Lead the delivery of high‑quality knowhow, guidance and training for Pinsent Masons lawyers and clients, continuing to build the PDL team’s expertise and reputation.

Detail of the Role

• Lead collaboration with partners, legal directors and senior stakeholders on strategic developments.
• Drive innovation by identifying and deploying new or alternative practices, products and resources that deliver measurable value to clients.
• Oversee horizon scanning and provide strategic insight into key legal and market developments, ensuring timely dissemination to clients and internal teams.
• Assess and advise on the implications of legal and regulatory changes, including their impact on transactions, disputes and client risk profiles.
• Manage the development and quality assurance of technical and commercial resources, including precedents, guidance notes and toolkits with a focus on clarity, consistency and visual effectiveness.
• Work with the firm’s BD and PR teams to contribute to external media and the Pinsent Masons Out‑Law website.
• Curate and deliver a robust current awareness programme, including newsletters, alerts and thought leadership content, tailored to client and sector needs.
• Strategically oversee the production and maintenance of precedents, standard forms, practice notes and knowledge materials, including digital and intranet content.
• Lead/prepare responses to public consultations on legal and policy developments.
• Provide expert analysis on legal and policy developments to global colleagues and clients, ensuring commercial relevance and clarity.
• Manage maintenance of the team’s knowledge databases, ensuring accessibility, accuracy and strategic alignment.
• Work with the Central Knowledge and Research teams to ensure best use of resources and technology.
• Initiate and lead strategic knowledge projects, including scoping, prioritisation and implementation in collaboration with partner and lawyer teams.
• Design and deliver training programmes for the team, including bespoke sessions for senior lawyers and leadership teams, and oversee:
• Organisation of all training programmes for the group.
• Identification and sourcing of appropriate external training for lawyers.
• Design and deliver training to key clients, including proactively identifying relevant topics aligned with client needs and market trends.
• Attend client and sector events, briefings and presentations.
• Champion innovation, identify and launch new work streams, products and resources that enhance client service and internal efficiency.

Relevant Experience

• Previous experience as an employment lawyer in a UK law firm, ideally for at least eight years.
• Client‑facing experience in a range of employment law areas.

Key Skills

• Enthusiasm and a desire to drive positive change.
• Practical and flexible approach, with the ability to think and act strategically.
• Self‑starter – innovative, takes initiative and follows through.
• Highly collaborative and able to work among a group of high‑performing peers.
• Creates confidence with partners and senior lawyers and forges co‑operative working relationships with colleagues.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, able to work effectively at all levels with clients, lawyers and support services.
• An interest in the future of legal services and innovative service delivery.
• Self‑driven with highly effective time‑management skills.
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• Approach and behaviours consistent with the firm’s purpose‑led approach and core values of being ‘approachable’, ‘bold’ and ‘connected’.

About The Firm

Pinsent Masons is a global 100‑law firm with over 3,400 employees operating from 26 locations worldwide. We are known for delivering high‑quality legal advice rooted in deep sector knowledge and a client‑centred approach. Our global reach ensures we can advise on complex multi‑jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines. We champion change and promote progress to make business work better for people, and we embed diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment where everyone can thrive.

Please note we are committed to diversity and inclusion and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of protected characteristics under local law.