# Growth & Future of Legal Business Lead **Company**: Organisation **Location**: Hong Kong **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Legal **Industry**: Consulting **Apply**: https://linklaters.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Linklaters/job/Hong-Kong/Growth---Future-of-Legal-Business-Lead_R00016468?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/growth-and-future-of-legal-business-lead-15ebc15a-7d6/ ## Description The Growth & Future of Legal Business Lead is a senior role within the Learning & Development function. You will design and facilitate coordinated working sessions that bring together Partners across practice groups and regions with key stakeholders, including AI specialists and Knowledge Lawyers, to navigate the most strategically significant questions facing the firm's legal business. You will work closely with the Director of Learning and Development, Partners, the Knowledge & Information function, and other Centres of Excellence to develop and deliver a structured learning and development offering that supports the firm to develop a coherent and commercially rigorous approach to the future of legal business. **Key Responsibilities** **Cross-Practice and Cross-Regional Working Sessions** - Design, develop, and lead high-quality working sessions across practice groups and regions, bringing together Partners, Associates, Knowledge Lawyers, and AI & tech specialists in structured conversations about shaping the firm’s legal future. - Ensure working sessions foster coordinated, cross-functional dialogue, building a shared understanding of strategic choices and trade-offs in areas such as AI adoption, client strategy, and pricing. - Develop a clear programme architecture for working sessions, ensuring coherence and cumulative impact over time. - Work closely with L&D Managers and Advisors to coordinate sessions across the firm's global offices. - Engage Partners and Practice Group Heads in designing and sponsoring working sessions. - Develop a publishable point of view on the future of legal businesses. **AI, Technology, and the Future of Legal Work** - Act as the firm's primary learning and development point of expertise on embedding AI and exploring the future of legal work. - Curate and integrate high-quality external inputs into working sessions, ensuring conversations are informed by the best available external thinking. - Work closely with the AI team, Knowledge & Information function, and technologists to ensure technical credibility and practical relevance. - Design facilitated sessions that help practice groups develop a clear view of how AI adoption affects their client portfolios. - Monitor developments in AI, legal technology, and the broader legal services market. **Coordinated Discussion of Strategic Trade-offs** - Design and facilitate structured conversations that enable Partners and senior leaders to engage with strategic trade-offs in the firm's business model. - Develop simulations, facilitation frameworks, and decision-support tools to help practice groups surface and work through complex trade-offs. - Ensure trade-off discussions are conducted at the right level of granularity and outputs are captured and synthesised. - Work closely with Finance, Pricing, Knowledge & Information, and other functions to ground trade-off discussions in accurate data and commercial analysis. **Portfolio-Focused Programme Design with External Inputs** - Design and manage a coherent programme of working sessions and learning interventions. - Identify, commission, and integrate high-quality external inputs into working sessions. - Develop a clear framework for evaluating the quality and impact of external inputs. - Ensure the portfolio is well-governed with clear objectives, evaluation mechanisms, and reporting processes. **Providing Strategic Direction** - Provide clear strategic direction to L&D Managers and Advisors. - Set clear priorities and quality standards. - Act as a coach and mentor to L&D Managers and Advisors. **Stakeholder Engagement and Governance** - Build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders across the firm. - Represent the Growth and Future of Legal Business programme in governance forums and leadership meetings. **Programme Evaluation and Continuous Improvement** - Use evaluation data and stakeholder feedback to drive continuous improvement. - Monitor external developments in AI, legal technology, and professional development practice. **Requirements** - Significant experience in a senior learning and development, strategy, knowledge management, or organisational development role. - Demonstrated ability to set clear strategic direction and exceptional delivery. - Understanding of the strategic challenges and opportunities facing global law firms. - Experience of designing and facilitating complex working sessions and strategic dialogue processes. - Ability to build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across a matrixed organisation. **Qualifications** - Educated to degree level or equivalent, preferably in Law, Business, Strategy, Organisational Psychology, Human Resources, or a related discipline. 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