Legal Editor

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About Us

LexisNexis, a part of RELX, is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory, and business information. We help customers increase productivity and improve decision-making and outcomes. Our 10,500 experts and innovative tools help us shape a better world for our customers and communities.

About the Role

We are currently offering an exciting opportunity for a Lead Practical Guidance Editor. This role provides editorial support across the LNUK Practical Guidance portfolio, consisting of online subscription-only services for legal and tax professionals delivering up-to-date, practice area-specific guidance, checklists, precedents, forms, drafting notes, legal analysis, and news.

Key Responsibilities:

• Editing technical legal and tax content in XML, reviewing content for sense and conformity to house style, proofreading, and making style corrections in a timely manner.
• Ensuring our products work by solving technical issues or escalating to the right colleagues, understanding the intended customer experience, and tailoring approach accordingly.
• Building outstanding working relationships with authors, communicating daily to understand priorities and market changes.
• Identifying issues, proactively suggesting and implementing solutions, and ensuring authors adhere to best practices.
• Working closely with London colleagues and offshore editors to communicate priorities and updates on technical changes.
• Leading content update and enrichment projects, understanding author and product requirements, and meeting challenging deadlines.
• Understanding and taking ownership of editorial processes and leading Continuous Improvement initiatives.
• Delivering training and feedback sessions on processes and best practices to editors, authors, and other teams.
• Testing product and CMS functionality as required and delivering editorial projects to support new offerings.
• Building relationships with other teams and acting as an ambassador for the team in the global business.
• Reporting up to and deputizing for Operations Manager, and performing other editorial tasks as required.

Specialist Knowledge/Skills Required:

• Proven sub-editing ability and experience of applying and developing a house style.
• Experience of working in an area of complexity and using professional knowledge to deliver results.
• Ability to prioritize own workload to meet tight deadlines and coordinate projects.
• Outstanding communication skills, with experience working with legal/tax professionals being an advantage.
• Interest in and ability to upskill on AI and automation, and conduct business experiments using generative AI tools.
• Legal qualification and/or background is an advantage.

Work in a Way that Works for You

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization, with various flexible and remote working options available to employees.

Working with Us

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.

Working for You

We believe in a healthy work/life balance. Your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career.

About Our Team

LexisNexis is a data and analytics company with 10,500 colleagues serving customers in more than 150 countries. We design solutions that help our customers increase productivity and improve decision-making and outcomes.