United Kingdom · Legal · Director/VP (16-20 years)

Director, Project & Energy Law

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Experience bandDirector/VP (16-20 years)
Direct reports25-100+ reports
Reports toChief Legal Officer (CLO) or General Counsel
UK framework levelUsually a director, accountable for a division and its numbers

Also advertised as VP, Legal – Energy Projects · Head of Energy Legal · Senior Legal Director, Power & Renewables

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1What this role really is

As our Director, Project & Energy Law, you'll be the architect of our legal strategy for all things energy. This isn't just about reviewing contracts; it's about shaping how we approach new markets, new technologies, and even new business models. You'll lead a substantial team, manage significant budgets, and be the go-to legal expert for our energy business unit leadership. Think of it as being the legal compass for a rapidly expanding, complex part of our company.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

iManage / NetDocuments (or similar CLM)Strategic

Leading the strategic deployment and optimisation of the CLM system across the legal team, designing enterprise-wide contract data strategies, and ensuring integration with other business systems. You're defining how we use this tool, not just using it.

Workshare Compare / Litera CompareArchitect

Setting firm-wide standards and best practices for document comparison and redlining protocols, especially for complex, multi-party agreements. You're ensuring consistency and efficiency across the team.

Datasite / Intralinks (VDRs)Strategic

Advising on VDR strategy for M&A and complex project finance deals, ensuring security protocols meet regulatory and client requirements, and overseeing the management of critical deal information. You're ensuring the data room supports the deal's strategic objectives.

MS Excel (Advanced Financial Modelling)Strategic

Working with finance leadership to architect model structures that align with PPA templates, interpreting complex model outputs for executive risk assessment, and guiding your team on the financial implications of legal clauses.

Westlaw / LexisNexis / Bloomberg LawStrategic

Leveraging these platforms to identify emerging legal trends, proactively advising the business on future risks and opportunities, and directing your team on complex research methodologies for novel legal issues.

Diligent Boards / Power BI (for portfolio risk dashboards)Expert

Designing and presenting comprehensive legal risk and portfolio dashboards to the C-suite and Board of Directors. You'll use these tools to manage board-level approvals and communicate critical legal insights to top leadership.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choice	Coming in	Where you are now	The step above
Legal Strategy for New Market Entry (Energy)	No involvement, may assist with research if directed.	May research specific regulatory aspects under supervision, but no strategic input.	Contributes to legal risk assessment and proposes initial legal structures for discussion with leadership.
External Counsel Engagement & Budget	None. May help compile invoices.	May liaise with external counsel on specific document requests under supervision.	Manages day-to-day engagement with external counsel on specific deal workstreams, ensuring adherence to scope.
Major PPA Negotiation (e.g., £500M+ project)	Assists with document management and proofreading.	Drafts ancillary documents, manages data room, reviews specific non-core clauses.	Leads negotiation of non-core PPA sections, manages deal workstream, advises business on specific clauses.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

External Counsel Spend Reduction

Reduction in legal fees paid to external law firms for energy projects.

Target · 20% reduction year-on-year for comparable deal volume/complexity.

If last year's external spend was £5M, we'd expect it to be closer to £4M this year for similar work, by bringing more expertise in-house or optimising engagements.

Project Portfolio Growth Enabled

The total capacity (in MW) of new energy projects successfully contracted and brought online under your legal oversight.

Target · Enable >500 MW of new projects annually.

In 2024, your team successfully closed PPAs for three new solar farms totalling 600 MW, exceeding the 500 MW target.

Regulatory Compliance Incidents

Number of material regulatory breaches or fines within the energy business unit.

Target · Zero material regulatory breaches or fines.

No fines issued by Ofgem or other regulatory bodies related to our energy operations, demonstrating robust compliance frameworks.

Team Engagement & Retention

The engagement and retention rates of your direct and indirect reports within the energy legal team.

Target · Maintain 85%+ engagement score and 90%+ retention rate.

Your team's engagement score improved from 82% to 88% in the latest survey, and only one person left the team voluntarily in the past year.

Strategic Business Partnership

How effectively you act as a proactive, strategic advisor to the Head of the Energy Business Unit and other senior leaders, influencing business decisions beyond just legal risk.

You're routinely invited to strategic planning sessions, your input is sought on new market entries or product launches, and business leaders actively consult you before making major commercial commitments. You're seen as a problem-solver, not a gatekeeper.

Legal Innovation & Efficiency

Your ability to drive efficiency and innovation within the legal function, such as developing new templates, playbooks, or adopting legal tech solutions that improve speed and quality.

You've successfully implemented a new CLM system that reduced contract review times by 30%. You've created a 'standard terms' playbook that empowers junior lawyers to handle more complex negotiations. Your team is actively experimenting with AI tools to automate routine tasks.

Risk Management Framework

The robustness and effectiveness of the legal risk management framework you've established for the energy business unit, including identifying, assessing, and mitigating key legal and regulatory risks.

You've developed and rolled out a comprehensive risk register for all energy projects. You regularly present a clear, concise overview of the top 5 legal risks to the business unit leadership. There are clear escalation paths and mitigation plans in place for identified risks.

Leadership & Talent Development

Your success in developing the capabilities of your team, fostering a culture of continuous learning, and building a strong talent pipeline.

You have a clear succession plan for key roles in your team. Several team members have been promoted under your leadership. You actively sponsor training and development programmes, and your team members feel supported and challenged.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy

Shaping the Future of Energy

You'll spend your days advising on projects that literally power homes and businesses, contributing to renewable energy targets, and navigating the complexities of a changing grid. You're building something tangible.

Leading the legal work for a multi-hundred-million-pound offshore wind farm that will generate clean energy for a million homes.

Leading and Developing High-Performing Teams

A significant portion of your time will be dedicated to mentoring, coaching, and strategically building out your legal team. You'll see your people grow and take on bigger challenges.

Watching a junior lawyer you mentored rise through the ranks to become a Senior Legal Counsel, capable of leading complex negotiations independently.

Solving Complex, High-Stakes Problems

You'll be tackling novel legal issues, structuring multi-jurisdictional deals, and managing significant regulatory challenges that have no easy answers. It's intellectually demanding work with real-world consequences.

Developing a novel legal structure for a hybrid battery storage and solar project to meet new grid connection requirements, setting a precedent for future deals.

What frustrates people

Business teams making verbal commitments that are legally unviable, forcing you to 're-trade' the deal at a late stage.
The sheer volume of internal approvals needed for high-value transactions, often involving chasing multiple senior stakeholders.
Dealing with external counsel who don't fully grasp our commercial objectives, leading to unnecessary legal costs or overly conservative advice.
The constant tension between commercial speed and robust legal risk management, often requiring difficult conversations.
Navigating internal politics and competing priorities when trying to implement a new legal process or policy across different departments.

What this role does not give you

The opportunity to be solely an individual contributor, focused only on drafting and negotiation.
A predictable, routine workload – expect urgent, high-stakes issues to pop up regularly.
Complete autonomy on every decision; many strategic calls will require alignment with the CLO and business unit leadership.
A quiet, solitary work environment; you'll be in meetings, on calls, and collaborating constantly.

6Who you work with

This role directly shapes the legal and commercial viability of our entire energy portfolio. You'll be instrumental in driving multi-year business unit transformation, influencing market position, and ensuring we meet our strategic growth objectives while managing enterprise-level legal and regulatory risk. Your decisions can impact £2M-£10M+ in P&L and influence the company's reputation significantly.

Inside the business

Chief Legal Officer (CLO)
Head of Energy Business Unit
CFO and Finance Leadership
Head of Risk & Compliance
Head of Business Development (Energy)
Board of Directors (for specific items)

Outside the business

External Legal Counsel (panel firms)
Regulatory bodies (e.g., Ofgem, BEIS)
Major project developers and counterparties
Lenders and financial institutions
Industry associations

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

Extensive experience (10+ years) leading legal teams and managing complex energy transactions, specifically Power Purchase Agreements, project finance, and M&A in the renewables sector.
Demonstrable track record of advising senior business leadership and C-suite executives on high-stakes legal and regulatory matters.
Proven ability to manage significant legal budgets, including external counsel spend, and drive cost efficiencies.
Strong understanding of the commercial drivers and financial models underpinning energy projects.
Experience in talent development, mentorship, and building high-performing legal teams.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Advanced Predictive Analytics for Litigation & Regulatory Outcomes

The ability to use data and AI to predict the likely outcome of litigation or regulatory enforcement actions will become a critical strategic advantage. This will inform settlement strategies, risk provisioning, and proactive compliance efforts, moving from reactive to predictive legal advice.

Machine Learning in Legal Prediction · Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Legal Texts · Causal Inference in Legal Analysis · Ethical Considerations in Predictive Justice

This quarter: Read a few white papers on predictive analytics in legal or attend a specialist conference.
Next 3 months: Engage with our data science team (if we have one) to understand their capabilities and potential applications to legal data.
Month 4-6: Explore vendor solutions for predictive legal analytics and assess their relevance to our energy business unit's risk profile.
Month 7-9: Develop a proposal for a pilot project to use predictive analytics for a specific area of legal risk (e.g., contract disputes).

Quick win: Start by identifying a recurring legal problem or dispute type in the energy sector where historical data is abundant. Think about how you'd manually try to predict outcomes and then research how AI might automate or enhance that.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up

Regularly attend and speak at major energy industry conferences (e.g., RenewableUK, Energy UK) to stay abreast of market trends and build your professional network.
Participate in legal industry working groups focused on energy transition, legal tech, or regulatory reform to influence policy and best practices.
Undertake executive education programmes in areas like strategic leadership, M&A, or advanced finance to broaden your business acumen.
Mentor junior lawyers and actively contribute to internal knowledge-sharing initiatives within the Legal department.
Publish articles or thought leadership pieces on key energy law topics to enhance your personal and our company's reputation.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: Ethical AI & Data Governance for Legal

As AI becomes more embedded in legal processes (from contract review to research), understanding the ethical implications, data privacy, and potential biases of these tools will be paramount. Regulators are starting to pay attention, and our reputation depends on getting this right.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Ethical AI & Data Governance for Legal

As AI becomes more embedded in legal processes (from contract review to research), understanding the ethical implications, data privacy, and potential biases of these tools will be paramount. Regulators are starting to pay attention, and our reputation depends on getting this right.

AI Explainability (XAI)
Data Lineage & Provenance
Algorithmic Bias Detection
Prompt Engineering Best Practices (Ethical)
Regulatory Sandboxes for Legal Tech

Digital Transformation Leadership (Legal)

The legal function is no longer just about legal advice; it's about efficient delivery of that advice through technology. As Director, you'll be expected to drive significant digital transformation within your team, from CLM optimisation to AI adoption, ensuring our legal operations are as agile and effective as the business.

Legal Operations Frameworks
Vendor Management for Legal Tech
Process Automation (RPA in Legal)
Data Analytics for Legal Performance
Change Leadership in Tech Adoption

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

PPA Structuring & Product Knowledge
Bankability & Project Finance Imperatives
Risk Allocation & Mitigation (Enterprise Level)
Energy Regulatory Analysis & Strategy
Financial Model Translation & Impact Assessment
Negotiation Strategy & Tactics (Executive Level)

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

1
Managing Counsel / Senior Legal Counsel (In-house Energy)
5-8 years at that level before Director
Skills to master
- Leading complex deal negotiations end-to-end, managing a small team or significant workstream, advising business leaders on strategic legal risks, and demonstrating strong commercial judgment.
You're ready to move on when
- Successfully led multiple high-value PPA negotiations from start to finish without significant external counsel support.
- Consistently sought out by business leaders for advice on novel or complex legal issues.
- Demonstrated ability to manage and develop junior legal talent.
- Managed a significant legal budget or external counsel spend effectively.
2
Partner / Senior Associate (Top-Tier Energy Law Firm)
3-6 years as Partner/Senior Associate before moving in-house
Skills to master
- Developing and managing client relationships, leading complex energy transactions for multiple clients, building a book of business, and managing junior lawyers within the firm.
You're ready to move on when
- Successfully led significant energy project deals (e.g., multi-hundred-million-pound PPAs or project financings) for major clients.
- Demonstrated ability to manage client expectations and deliver high-quality legal advice under pressure.
- Proven track record of business development or significant contributions to the firm's energy practice.
- Experience in managing and mentoring junior lawyers within the firm structure.

11Where this role leads

The long view:This Director role isn't just a job; it's a launchpad for significant career growth. Whether you choose to climb the legal leadership ladder, transition into broader business leadership, or advise at the board level, the experience and network you'll gain here will set you up for long-term success. We're investing in leaders who will shape not just our company, but the future of energy.

Pay & demand

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The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Director, Project & Energy Law is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

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13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Improve energy performanceLevel 5

Applied to your work in Director, Project & Energy Law

By completing this unit, learners will be able to develop, implement, and monitor plans to improve energy performance within an organisation, contributing to energy efficiency and sustainability goals.

How the thinking builds

Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyse
Evaluate
Create

An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

DemonstrateIllustration

Evidenced on your work in Director, Project & Energy Law

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

External Counsel Spend ReductionReduction in legal fees paid to external law firms for energy projects.If last year's external spend was £5M, we'd expect it to be closer to £4M this year for similar work, by bringing more expertise in-house or optimising engagements.20% reduction year-on-year for comparable deal volume/complexity.
Project Portfolio Growth EnabledThe total capacity (in MW) of new energy projects successfully contracted and brought online under your legal oversight.In 2024, your team successfully closed PPAs for three new solar farms totalling 600 MW, exceeding the 500 MW target.Enable >500 MW of new projects annually.
Regulatory Compliance IncidentsNumber of material regulatory breaches or fines within the energy business unit.No fines issued by Ofgem or other regulatory bodies related to our energy operations, demonstrating robust compliance frameworks.Zero material regulatory breaches or fines.
Team Engagement & RetentionThe engagement and retention rates of your direct and indirect reports within the energy legal team.Your team's engagement score improved from 82% to 88% in the latest survey, and only one person left the team voluntarily in the past year.Maintain 85%+ engagement score and 90%+ retention rate.

These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Director, Project & Energy Law to Associate General Counsel, Energy, and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 7 · in progressAI Fluency→ Associate General Counsel, Energy→ your design

Where this takes you

This Director role isn't just a job; it's a launchpad for significant career growth. Whether you choose to climb the legal leadership ladder, transition into broader business leadership, or advise at the board level, the experience and network you'll gain here will set you up for long-term success. We're investing in leaders who will shape not just our company, but the future of energy.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration

Director, Project & Energy Law

PPA Structuring & Product Knowledge
Bankability & Project Finance Imperatives
Risk Allocation & Mitigation (Enterprise Level)
Energy Regulatory Analysis & Strategy
Financial Model Translation & Impact Assessment
Negotiation Strategy & Tactics (Executive Level)

This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Director, Project & Energy Law is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

Associate General Counsel, Energy
3-5 years in Director role
This is a Level 7 role, moving from business unit-specific legal leadership to enterprise-wide strategic legal oversight for the entire energy portfolio.
- Global Regulatory Compliance: Overseeing compliance across multiple international jurisdictions for energy operations.
- Litigation Strategy (Enterprise): Directing all major energy-related litigation and dispute resolution at a corporate level.
- M&A Integration (Strategic): Leading the legal integration of significant energy acquisitions at an enterprise level.
- Crisis Management (Legal): Acting as the lead legal voice during major company-wide crises impacting the energy sector.

Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, as a Director, your time is precious. You're paid to think strategically, lead your team, and shape the business, not get bogged down in administrative or repetitive legal tasks. The good news? AI isn't just for junior lawyers anymore; it's a powerful ally for senior leaders, freeing you up to focus on what truly matters.

We're building an AI Productivity Hub specifically for our Legal team. It's designed to help you and your team work smarter, not harder. Imagine having an intelligent assistant that handles the grunt work, allowing you to dedicate more time to high-value strategic advice, talent development, and driving our energy business forward. Here's a glimpse of how AI can transform your day-to-day as Director, Project & Energy Law:

Strategic Regulatory Intelligence

Use AI to rapidly synthesise complex regulatory changes across multiple jurisdictions, identifying key impacts on our energy portfolio. Instead of reading dozens of white papers, get a concise summary of critical shifts and their strategic implications for new projects or market entries. This helps you proactively advise the business on future risks and opportunities.

Portfolio Risk & Opportunity Mapping

Leverage AI-powered analytics to scan your entire PPA portfolio, identifying systemic risks (e.g., exposure to a specific curtailment clause across 50 agreements) or hidden opportunities. Ask natural language questions about your contracts to quickly generate insights for board-level risk reporting or strategic planning. This gives you an aerial view of your legal landscape.

Optimised External Counsel Management

Employ AI tools to analyse external counsel invoices and activity logs, identifying inefficiencies or opportunities for better rate negotiation. AI can help benchmark performance across panel firms, ensuring you're getting the best value for your significant legal budget. It's about data-driven decision-making for your legal spend.

M&A Due Diligence Acceleration

When evaluating potential acquisitions in the energy sector, use AI to rapidly review target company contracts (PPAs, leases, permits). The AI can flag critical change-of-control clauses, hidden liabilities, or non-assignable agreements much faster than manual review, giving you a significant edge in deal speed and risk assessment.

Common questions

How do you become a Director, Project & Energy Law?

Common routes in include Managing Counsel / Senior Legal Counsel (In-house Energy) (5-8 years at that level before Director) and Partner / Senior Associate (Top-Tier Energy Law Firm) (3-6 years as Partner/Senior Associate before moving in-house). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Director, Project & Energy Law progress to?

This role can lead on to Associate General Counsel, Energy (3-5 years in Director role), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Director, Project & Energy Law in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 7 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Director, Project & Energy Law?

Increasingly, Ethical AI & Data Governance for Legal and Digital Transformation Leadership (Legal). These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a Director, Project & Energy Law, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 1 national skill standard. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Director, Project & Energy Law: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A Zavmo curriculum screen: a three-month plan built for a customer support lead, five Ofqual-regulated units and a hundred and ninety-six credits. — A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.

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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 7

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Legal

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

Your deep expertise in energy law, project finance, and complex transactions makes you highly sought after across the broader energy sector (developers, utilities, funds, consultancies) and even infrastructure or major projects in other industries. Your skills are highly transferable to any organisation dealing with large-scale, long-term contractual arrangements and significant regulatory oversight.

Not sure this is the right direction?

Work out what you actually want from work first, then come back and see which roles fit it. Takes about ten minutes.

You're not behind. You're right on time. The shift is only just beginning. Your role won't look the same in two years. Be the one who leads the change, not the one it happens to. Build my plan, free Here's the first ten minutes: a 2-minute confidence check → your personalised roadmap → meet the tutors matched to you. No card, cancel any time. No card. Build your plan, see your roadmap and meet the twelve tutors matched to you. All free. When you're ready to start learning, it's £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.

Director, Project & Energy Law

What's rising in its place

Ethical AI & Data Governance for Legal

Digital Transformation Leadership (Legal)

Skills this role draws on

Technical

How you actually get there, here

Managing Counsel / Senior Legal Counsel (In-house Energy)

Partner / Senior Associate (Top-Tier Energy Law Firm)

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

Roles this leads to

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

A conversation, not a course

No two people run this the same way

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Everything else the record holds

The career path, and where it branches

Associate General Counsel, Energy

Where AI is starting to help

Strategic Regulatory Intelligence

Portfolio Risk & Opportunity Mapping

Optimised External Counsel Management

M&A Due Diligence Acceleration

Common questions

You’ve started things before

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.