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Real Estate Attorney in Chicago, IL

Mayer Brown LLP Mar 13,2017 Dec 20,2016 Location USA Chicago IL
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Law Firm

Attorney

Litigation - Foreclosure (Lender-side)

Real Estate

Min 10 yrs required

Profile

Professional Support Lawyer - Real Estate The candidate will monitor developments in the legal and business environment in order to keep both the Group and its Clients up to date. Provide legal and practical expertise to support the Group’s practice, both directly and through the mentoring of junior lawyers. Create and maintain a well-organized electronic collection of practice-related knowledge resources, which include in particular United States law-governed Real Estate standard forms and accompanying notes, precedent documents, best practices and how-to memos, legal memos and other materials useful to the Group. Help the Knowledge Department generally to tailor the Firm’s knowledge resources to meet the needs of the broader United States Real Estate Group. Develop and maintain the knowledge-related aspects of the Group’s intranet site, particularly with respect to Real Estate resources. Help organize, design and deliver Group training and provide other support. Work with the librarians to maximize the value and use of significant practice-related current awareness and alerts from internal and external sources. Attend external training and conferences to keep up-to-date with relevant developments in the law, business environment and professional support. Work with the Legal Project Management/Legal Process Improvement team to help create process and task maps for typical US Real Estate matter types, to support the budgeting/pricing process as well as to provide on-line process maps with links to useful content and resources. And assist with explorations of cutting-edge approaches and technology relating to improving practice efficiency.

Qualification and Experience

The candidate must be an experienced lawyer who will help to develop the Knowledge Strategy for the Real Estate Practice Group (“the Group”) in the United States and implement projects to meet the Group’s knowledge needs. Must have 10+ years of sound US legal experience relevant to the Group as an admitted and practicing lawyer in a large law firm or corporate/financial institution legal department.

Additional info

Ref: 2016-2313

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