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<blockquote data-quote="Lumree" data-source="post: 78141" data-attributes="member: 1532">Hi Mirela,Being part of the Knowledge team means your role while take on a slightly different angle to a traditional paralegal.In most firms, the Knowledge team is a business support team, lending their assistance to the fee earners. To bridge the gap between the team and the fee earners, certain teams have a Professional Support Lawyer (PSL). The PSL’s responsibilities will be to complete business and legal research, update the fee earning team on recent developments in the sector, and conduct training. As a Knowledge Paralegal, you’ll likely be working under the supervision of the PSL so you can expect to be assisting with these functions.With the above in mind, my advice for the interview would be to bear in mind that your role would be quite holistic. Not only would you be assisting on the legal aspects of the job, but will support on Business Development functions too. In other words, keep in mind that your role would is to assist the law firm as a business itself and not just the client (this is great from a commercial awareness standpoint if you’re going for TC’s!)Best of luck!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lumree, post: 78141, member: 1532"] Hi Mirela, Being part of the Knowledge team means your role while take on a slightly different angle to a traditional paralegal. In most firms, the Knowledge team is a business support team, lending their assistance to the fee earners. To bridge the gap between the team and the fee earners, certain teams have a Professional Support Lawyer (PSL). The PSL’s responsibilities will be to complete business and legal research, update the fee earning team on recent developments in the sector, and conduct training. As a Knowledge Paralegal, you’ll likely be working under the supervision of the PSL so you can expect to be assisting with these functions. With the above in mind, my advice for the interview would be to bear in mind that your role would be quite holistic. Not only would you be assisting on the legal aspects of the job, but will support on Business Development functions too. In other words, keep in mind that your role would is to assist the law firm as a business itself and not just the client (this is great from a commercial awareness standpoint if you’re going for TC’s!) Best of luck! [/QUOTE]

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