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Ref: MP869-243
Job description / Role
The KM Advisor will assist lawyers and secretaries with legal research and ensure they have access to the information they need to do their job. The KM Advisor will also work with KM manager and different departments on implementing a broad range of KM projects, coordinating resources to develop content and monitoring and distributing current awareness material.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Carrying out legal research (case law and legislation). The person must be familiar with on-line legal databases in both Arabic and English;
- Liaising with authorities to obtain information/legislation/gazettes;
- Maintaining and developing Knowledge Bank (mostly indexing and entry of new content). The person must be familiar with knowledge management systems;
- Liaising with Finance team on a regular basis re payments of invoices for various subscriptions;
- Liaising and collaborating with lawyers and Learning and Development team on new projects;
- Assisting with training sessions;
- Identifying and disseminating current awareness materials;
- Developing content for the KM e-bulletin and client publications
Requirements
- Excellent communication skills in both English and Arabic
- Good online research skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- Document management skills
About the Company
Al Tamimi & Company is the largest and most dynamic non-affiliated law firm in the Middle East with 16 offices across 9 countries and comprising 330 lawyers.
Over the years we have advised, and continue to support, government, government-owned entities, local, regional and international companies, banks and financial institutions along with both international and regional law firms.
Our core strength is our people and the diversity of their experience and local knowledge. Our reputation for excellence and regional experience extends beyond our network of offices in UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah), Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Bahrain, Oman and Egypt. As a firm, our ability to practice local law in each of these jurisdictions - and the ability of each of our licensed litigators to have rights of audience before local courts - is a unique strength that truly sets us apart from our competitors.