Senior Knowledge Lawyer

Clifford Chance LLP

The Role

Legal & Regulatory Knowledge Management

• Proactively monitor, analyse, and summarise legislative and regulatory developments across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including guidance from key regulatory authorities.
• Lead the dissemination of critical updates to fee-earners and practice groups, ensuring relevance and clarity.
• Conduct in-depth legal research and produce high-quality internal briefings, analysis, and strategic insight reports.
• Maintain and enhance local knowledge repositories and intranet pages to ensure timely access to relevant knowhow.
• Drive the categorisation, curation, and uploading of knowledge materials into global knowledge platforms (e.g. Bound Volumes, ACKCs).

Training & Induction

• Design and deliver legal inductions for all new joiners, including lawyers, trainees, and secondees in Riyadh.
• Identify training needs and implement bespoke legal and regulatory training for internal teams and, where appropriate, external clients.
• Partner with the global Clifford Chance Academy team to ensure Riyadh lawyers are integrated into firm-wide learning programmes.
• Oversee and facilitate monthly regulatory update and in-depth sessions, coordinating closely with partners. Identify training requirements and deliver tailored legal and regulatory training for lawyers

Templates, Precedents & Tools

• Take ownership of developing, maintaining, and updating Saudi law-specific templates, standard form documents, and practice notes in collaboration with the wider fee earner teams
• Ensure consistency, quality, and accessibility of legal documentation across practice areas.
• Support the development of checklists, toolkits, and knowhow to drive efficiency and legal excellence

Thought Leadership & Strategic Initiatives

• Collaborate on global and regional thought leadership initiatives including newsletters, legal briefings, ESG, FinTech, Hydrogen, and other emerging legal trends.
• Author or contribute to client publications, white papers, and internal legal horizon scanning pieces relevant to the Saudi market.
• Play an active role in global knowledge transformation projects such as Knowledge Reimagined.

Collaboration & Advisory Support

• Act as a trusted legal advisor and internal consultant to lawyers across the Riyadh office, supporting transactional work with technical legal insight.
• Respond to complex legal or knowledge queries and escalate matters when required.
• Build strong relationships with Knowledge & Information (K&I) teams across the Middle East and Clifford Chance s global network.
• Support knowledge infrastructure growth, including library services and legal content subscriptions in KSA.