Knowledge Management Specialist

at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Knowledge Management Specialist
Recruiting Location

US-IL-Chicago

Department 
Knowledge Management
Summary

The Knowledge Management Specialist ("KM Specialist") will be part of the Healthcare Practice Area Team ("Healthcare PAT") and the Global Life Sciences ("GLS") team's overall support infrastructure and a necessary function for the lawyers in the Healthcare PAT to work most effectively and efficiently. The KM Specialist will work with the Healthcare Practice Manager to design processes for the collation of research materials, standard forms, model documents, matter profiles, and other data compilations. Having a dedicated professional to manage both processes and information will enable the Healthcare PAT to operate more efficiently, which will produce both time and cost savings and provide additional value-add for clients.
The KM Specialist will coordinate the implementation of firm-wide knowledge management efforts into the Healthcare PAT by collaborating with the Healthcare Practice Manager, KM Partner and others from the practice to create best practices, gain consensus on standards of operational efficiency, and develop measures of success for the practice's KM program while promoting access to information and a culture of knowledge-sharing and practice innovation. 

Duties and Responsibilities

Depending on the needs of the practice, duties and responsibilities would include, but not be limited to:
Strategy and Analysis
Work closely with the Healthcare KM Partner, KM Manager and PAT leadership to analyze and create strategic initiatives to establish goals and objectives for optimal results.
Develop, define and implement procedures to meet those needs and establish a method for consistent review of the strategy.
Communicate regularly with the KM Manager and KM Lawyers at the firm to share best practices.
Organization and Dissemination of Knowledge
Work with the Healthcare PAT KM Partner and members of the Healthcare PAT and GLS group to evaluate the practice's current KM-related efforts, working to improve the ability to capture and share information and research between Healthcare PAT and GLS group lawyers, and to identify and prioritize new projects that will contribute to the efficiency of the practice.
Work with Healthcare PAT and GLS group lawyers to generate knowledge content and facilitate the sharing of knowledge and information in general.
Facilitate the Healthcare PAT and GLS group's efforts to maintain a searchable knowledge repository (e.g., practice collaboration sites) with key state and federal laws, regulations, sub-regulatory guidance (including current and historic versions), healthcare enforcement settlement materials, False Claims Act (FCA) opinions, as well as exemplar forms, precedent, memos, research, business development materials and other helpful content and work product for the practice such as industry updates and client alerts.
Maintain procedures for generating, maintaining, updating, accessing and disseminating information (including the Healthcare PAT and GLS group's forms and precedent) and other materials.
Using Foundation, the firm's experience management platform, create and maintain matter profiles for current and historic matters.
Management of Legal Processes
Collaborate with the KM Manager to develop workflow improvements for common legal processes.
In conjunction with Marketing and the KM Manager, assist in business development efforts for the Healthcare PAT and GLS group, including compiling, organizing, and making available client pitch materials, identifying relevant issues and developments for clients, and preparing contributions to client-facing publications (e.g., bulletins, newsletters, etc.), soliciting matter outcome information, cross-selling databases, and populating client pitches.
Work with the KM Manager to constantly communicate with the lawyers to establish legal project management processes to track information at all stages of a matter and conduct post-matter reviews of lessons learned in order to update knowledge content and to obtain information in determining what knowledge resources are most relevant
Identification of Current Developments and Trends
Monitor, inform, and update the Healthcare PAT and GLS group with regard to important legal and industry developments and trends through maintaining internal trackers related to developments, enforcement, legislation, litigation and/or rulemaking.
Identify legal or business trends and suggest innovative methods to deliver services to clients... For full info follow application link.

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