Market Affairs Specialist (Part-Time)

The National Commercial Litigation team at Weightmans is looking for a Market Affairs Specialist to help our lawyers provide thought leadership, value and expertise to our clients. Working closely with partners, lawyers and business services teams, you will use market insights, campaigns and events to support our priority sectors and litigation work types, strengthen our external presence and contribute to business growth.

Accountable To The Litigation Head Of Client Delivery For

• Proactively seeking ways to help our commercial litigation lawyers raise external profile/ promote our expertise with OMBs, General Counsel and corporate clients.
• Playing a significant role in the promotion and recognition of our legal services and expertise externally to our clients.
• Proactively searching for ‘what’s soon’ (i.e. present day to next 12 months), ‘what’s next’ (i.e. beyond the next 12 months to 3 years) and awareness raising in its broadest sense.
• Working closely with partners and other case handlers across all locations to identify insights and translate their expertise into structured, market facing commentary for our client persona.
• Identifying and writing articles and thought leadership reports on any pertinent changes/market awareness including key target growth areas such as shareholder/ boardroom disputes; technology disputes; intellectual property disputes; and international disputes and arbitration.
• Establishing, maintaining and developing membership/subscription services and support for appropriate professional bodies, trade associations, organisations and focus groups.
• Providing training and guidance in relation to market awareness, internally and externally.
• Working collaboratively with Data Services, Product & Innovation, New Business and Marketing to ensure that we capture the right data to allow us to manage and report on trends and work with others to analyse and derive insight from our data, our clients and our segments.
• Bringing use case ideas to Product & Innovation and Business Change - e.g. how new technology/tools may be harnessed/leveraged for benefit for our clients.
  
  

The above list is not intended to be exhaustive and you will perform other duties and have other responsibilities that fall within the wider remit of the role.