Real Estate Knowledge Lawyer
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£51,600
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Description
Job role: Real Estate Knowledge Lawyer
Hours: Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:30 (37.5 hours per week)
Hill Dickinson are proud to be named as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families 2025 for the second year running and so, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.
Team: Real Estate
Location: Flexible
Benefits: At Hill Dickinson we understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary, so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.
Here Are Some Examples Of What We Offer
Hours: Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:30 (37.5 hours per week)
Hill Dickinson are proud to be named as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families 2025 for the second year running and so, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.
Team: Real Estate
Location: Flexible
Benefits: At Hill Dickinson we understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary, so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.
Here Are Some Examples Of What We Offer
- Annual leave starting at 25 days
- Annual bonus scheme
- Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
- Holiday buy, sell and carryover scheme
- 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days
- Optional private medical insurance via BUPA
- Annual fitness allowance
- Flexible pension scheme
- ISA saving scheme and independent financial advice
- Electric or hybrid vehicle lease scheme
- Medicash
- EAP with access to counselling
We are looking for a senior Real Estate lawyer to take on a strategic and influential role as a Knowledge Lawyer. This role will lead the transformation of the firm’s Real Estate knowledge function, shaping how legal knowledge is captured, shared, and applied across the practice.
Embedded within the fee-earning Real Estate team, the role reports into Real Estate leadership while working closely with the firm’s Knowledge Management team (part of Legal Technology and Innovation) to ensure a consistent approach to knowledge generation and alignment with firm-wide standards.
The successful candidate will formalise and maintain a comprehensive suite of Real Estate precedents, develop best practice guidance, and support lawyers with high-quality resources that enhance consistency, efficiency, and client service. They will also identify opportunities to improve service delivery, including through the use of technology.
This is a leadership position combining deep legal expertise with a passion for collaboration, continuous improvement, and knowledge-sharing.
The role requires a tech-savvy approach, leveraging emerging Real Estate AI and legal technology tools to drive innovation and encourage fee earners to adopt smarter ways of working.
Key Responsibilities
Knowledge Strategy & Precedent Development
- Lead the development and implementation of a Real Estate knowledge strategy, aligned with firm-wide standards.
- Create, formalise, and maintain a structured bank of Real Estate precedents, including leases, sale contracts, development agreements, licences, and ancillary documentation.
- Work closely with fee earners to gather input, ensure precedents reflect current practice, and embed them into workflows.
- Generate and maintain high-quality know-how content, including guidance notes, drafting tips, checklists, and practice manuals.
- Support the implementation of the firm’s governance processes for precedent creation, review, and updates, and ensure that these are enforced within the Real Estate practice.
- Build strong relationships with Real Estate partners, fee earners, and business services teams, facilitating collaboration across offices and sub-teams.
- Collaborate with the Knowledge Management team to align Real Estate knowledge initiatives with firm-wide strategy.
- Act as a visible and accessible point of contact for knowledge-related queries.
- Identify opportunities to improve delivery of Real Estate legal services through better use of precedents, process improvements, and technology - including recommending new AI-driven tools and platforms to the team.
- Support development of automated versions of key Real Estate documents where appropriate.
- Act as an iManage Champion, ensuring best practices for document and workspace management, and consistency of house style across Real Estate.
- Monitor legal and regulatory developments affecting Real Estate practice and ensure timely updates to precedents and guidance materials.
- Deliver internal training sessions, workshops, and briefings to support lawyers’ development.
- Promote best practice in drafting, negotiation, and client service.
- Provide technical input and support to fee earners on complex Real Estate matters.
Important criteria:
- Qualified solicitor in England & Wales with preferably 6-8 years’ post-qualification experience in Real Estate transactional work.
- Demonstrated interest in legal technology and innovation, with the ability to evaluate and champion new tools (including AI solutions) for Real Estate workflows.
- Strong technical expertise across acquisitions, disposals, leasing, development, and asset management.
- Proven ability to draft and review complex legal documents with precision and commercial awareness.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders.
- Highly organised, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple projects.
- Collaborative mindset and genuine interest in supporting others through knowledge-sharing.
- Strong familiarity with legal tech platforms
- Previous experience in a knowledge lawyer or training role
- Interest in improving legal service delivery through smarter working practices.
- Proactive in exploring emerging technologies and confident in training others on their use.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief.
We understand that our power as a firm comes from empowering our people and that it is only by encouraging and enabling individuals to be themselves at work that we can truly benefit from their rich and varied strengths.
Hill Dickinson is an equal opportunities employer. All applications received by the firm will be considered based on their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background and from all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.
Disability Support
We are a Disability Confident employer, which means if there is anything that we can do to make your visit easier, so you are able to perform at your best, please let us know. You can contact the HR team at hrteam@hilldickinson.com should you require any adjustments to the application or interview process.
At Hill Dickinson, we welcome applications from individuals that are looking to return to the law as well as all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.
All successful candidates will be subject to our standard pre-employment screening, including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion of all checks.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
At Hill Dickinson, we welcome applications from individuals that are looking to return to the law as well as all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.
All successful candidates will be subject to our standard pre-employment screening, including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion of all checks.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.