Knowledge & Innovation Lawyer - Life Science

Goodwin•Washington, DC

About The Position

Join Goodwin’s Global Operations Team, and make a real impact on a global scale. At Goodwin, we work with some of the world’s most successful and innovative investors, entrepreneurs and disruptors in the life sciences, private equity, real estate, technology and financial industries, and where they converge. As part of the Global Operations Team – all business professionals at the firm – you’ll collaborate with colleagues from varied backgrounds and experiences, fostering an environment where cross-functional learning, networking, and collaboration are at the core of what we do. Here, we’re not just supporting a law firm; we’re partnering with attorneys and clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions in high-stakes litigation and dispute resolution, world-class regulatory compliance and advisory services, and complex transactions. Our commitment to integrity, ingenuity, agility, and ambition drives us, and we’re proud to have been recognised as the “Best Business Team” by The American Lawyer. This is your opportunity to grow professionally in a dynamic, global environment, surrounded by forward-thinking peers. This is your opportunity to grow professionally in a dynamic, global environment, surrounded by forward-thinking peers. As the Knowledge & Innovation Lawyer for the Life Sciences practice, you are an experienced lawyer who will be a member of one of the legal industry’s leading Knowledge & Innovation (K&I) groups, known for award-winning and innovative KM systems and approaches. Working as an embedded Knowledge & Innovation Lawyer within the Life Sciences practice, you will work closely with the practice leaders and will draw upon your legal expertise and prior experience to support this group by providing the highest quality legal content and know-how for our U.S. practitioners. Goodwin’s Life Sciences practice represents life sciences companies throughout the corporate life cycle — from startup to maturity — as well as investors, banks, and others in the life sciences ecosystem. Our comprehensive life sciences coverage includes complex financing and M&A transactions, capital market transactions, collaborations and licensing, regulatory and compliance diligence and advisory services, FDA litigation, patent prosecution, counseling, due diligence, and portfolio strategy, corporate governance, among many other areas. The Practice is particularly focused on the distinct legal and market dynamics of the life sciences sector, serving innovative companies, investors, and institutions at every stage of the product development lifecycle.

Requirements

Juris Doctor required.
7+ years legal experience within the life sciences practice of a large law firm or as a life sciences industry expert, with substantive transactional experience in areas such as joint ventures, collaboration agreements, clinical trial arrangements, material transfer agreements, and/or biologics.
Passion for knowledge-sharing, efficiency and excellence in legal work, and prior experience as a knowledge and/or innovation practitioner within a law firm or in-house legal department preferred.
Well established understanding of the life sciences transactional market and its distinct legal and regulatory dynamics.
Experience using AI in the performance of legal services and strong interest in working with legal technology, such as artificial intelligence, document automation, and collaboration platforms.

Responsibilities

Drafting, updating and managing model documents, precedents, checklists, benchmarking surveys, market trend reports, and other substantive content for the Practice, ensuring such content is up-to-date and readily accessible on the firm’s intranet and other content-sharing platforms.
Work with Life Sciences partners to author and publish thought leadership content, including client-facing newsletters, deal trend analyses, and regulatory updates curating and analyzing industry developments for the life sciences sector; in addition to circulating internal market updates to the Life Sciences practice.
Serve as a source of legal, regulatory, market and practical expertise; identifying and collecting key data points of the Practice’s legal work for statistical analysis and post-deal assessments, benchmarking and market trends.
Monitor and proactively alert the Practice of important legal, regulatory and market developments relevant to the Life Sciences practice, including developments in FDA regulation, biologics, clinical trials, and transactional market trends; supporting the writing and publication of external client alerts on such developments.
Supporting the evaluation, pilot testing, and responsible use of Generative AI tools by the Life Sciences practice, including assessing use cases, gathering lawyer feedback, developing workflows and prompts, and contributing to pilot programs.
Develop curriculum for, and participate in, training initiatives for the Practice, including internal training sessions, client workshops, and other firm educational training programs.
Work with the Knowledge & Innovation team to develop solutions to increase efficiency, enable legal project management and improve legal service delivery of the Practice; such as generative AI templates and workflows, document assembly packages, expert systems and client-facing solutions.
Participate in K&I team meetings to facilitate the sharing of best practices and knowledge, and perform such other duties as requested by the K&I Department.
Assist in business development efforts for the Practice, including thought leadership initiatives, client seminars and pitches, to elevate the awareness and value of the Practice and the firm’s K&I program.