Vinge has created a new profession for lawyers within the Knowledge Management field, the KM lawyer. The KM lawyers’ role is to manage and organise the firm’s KM work. This role involves creating opportunities for Knowledge Management work, acting as information and communication architects as well as working for better knowledge management in the firm.
The KM lawyers’ tasks involve identifying the other lawyers’ need for documentation and information, taking advantage of and distributing both internal and external information and knowledge as well as developing the KM database and other IT support. Furthermore, the KM lawyers work closely with the firm’s specialist groups to identify the need for changes and more efficient methods and to safeguard experience from e.g. project evaluations.
The KM lawyers are also responsible for finding new methods for knowledge management and for the continuous development of the firm’s KM work.
To become a KM lawyer you must have good legal knowledge and several years’ experience from legal work at a commercial law firm as well as good project managerial qualifications, a high degree of independence and power of initiative.
In addition to the KM lawyers, there are also positions as KM associates at Vinge. As a KM associate you have the opportunity to get an introduction into the KM work and to work as a lawyer in the KM group without having the qualifications required for a KM lawyer.