With considerable experience in all real estate transactions, Peter now operates as a
senior professional support lawyer, responsible for knowhow, training and lawyer and process development in the real estate teams to enable them to provide a seamless, swift and efficient service to clients.
In larger law firms
where professional support lawyers are employed, they should be consulted but they should be discouraged from working on the actual contruction [of a taxonomy]... Experience also shows that contstruction by committee does not work.»
David is the
national professional support lawyer for personal injury at Thompsons Solicitors, with a track record of winning countless cases for clients injured in road accidents, in the military, or who have been seriously injured.
He is currently a lecturer in Private International Law at the Private Law Department of the Faculty of Law, VU University Amsterdam, and also legal advisor /
professional support lawyer at one of the biggest Dutch law firms.
I am an associate solicitor and
professional support lawyer (PSL) in the Employment team.
Training is not just carried out by those in L&D or «training» roles: legal technical training in particular will often be delivered by the firm's lawyers — fee earning or
professional support lawyers (PSLs)-- who have the specialist technical knowledge and expertise.
Within the UK and Ireland legal team there are two IP lawyers, two commercial lawyers,
a professional support lawyer and myself.
Kate trained and qualified with CMS Cameron McKenna, working on the full range of public and private company work for eight years, and then spent 11 years at Clifford Chance as
a professional support lawyer (an in - house specialist on private M&A, joint ventures and private equity transactions).
Following a short time working in data protection and FOI in the public sector, she started working as
a professional support lawyer in litigation.
In the 1990s, I spent several years practising in commercial litigation, both as a solicitor and as
a professional support lawyer in the use of technology and litigation for an international law firm.
Perhaps LexisNexis UK have addressed all the relevant issues with their most interesting service, LexisPSL aimed at
professional support lawyers, and they have indeed found the ideal balance between two potential extremes.
«At a recent MBA in legal practice workshop, facilitated by Insider Charles Christian... it emerged that the subject of KM had become so strongly associated with search engines, black letter law, documentary precedents and — in the words of one delegate — «had been hijacked by
professional support lawyers» that it was increasingly viewed by partners and fee earners as an irrelevant academic exercise.»
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professional support lawyers»?
My role as
a professional support lawyer involves providing the team with a comprehensive and focussed information and research service.
Her role includes responsibilities in connection with
the Professional Support lawyers and she has in previous roles at other firms also been responsible for Learning and Development.
And, why do we have PSLs, or
professional support lawyers, when AI research systems can do that work?
Prior to moving into a central knowledge management role, Alison spent a decade as
a professional support lawyer supporting the finance team and has particular expertise in banking law where she was responsible for developing and maintaining precedents, co-ordinating, writing and delivering technical training, collating know - how and keeping the team up to date with legal and technical developments.
The department brings together the firm's
professional support lawyers, learning & development, library and information services and knowledge services with a common focus on performance improvement.
Having specialised in employment law from qualification, gaining wide experience of handling contentious and non-contentious matters, primarily for employers, Kate then became
a professional support lawyer.
ROSS, developed by ROSS Intelligence, fulfils
a professional support lawyer role, undertaking legal research to support BakerHostetler's attorneys by finding appropriate precedents and other documents, and answering legal questions that relate to the matters they handle.
We also provide access to
a professional support lawyer and access to online legal resources LexisPSL and Westlaw.
She has worked in - house, prepared cases involving tens of thousands of documents and as
a professional support lawyer developing web services for clients and providing training for clients and other lawyers.
Philip Davis is a commercial litigation partner at Davies Arnold Cooper who advises on art law issues, and Graham Ludlam is
a professional support lawyer.
The author would like to thank his colleagues Nicola Brown, partner, and Catherine Fawlk,
professional support lawyer, for their help in the preparation of this article