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AI Summary
Are you passionate about creating accurate, high-quality legal content and ensuring the timely publication of essential legal materials?
Do you enjoy working collaboratively with legal and publishing professionals while managing complex editorial workflows and maintaining exceptional standards?
About our Team
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (http://www.relx.com), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles (https://stories.relx.com/responsible-ai-principles/index.html).
About the Role
As an Editor, you will play a key role in creating and maintaining high-quality legal content for law report publications. Working closely with colleagues and external contributors, you will help ensure content is accurate, relevant, and published on schedule across print and digital formats. You will contribute to the integrity of legal reporting by applying strong editorial judgement, attention to detail, and a commitment to quality.
Responsibilities
- Undertake editorial tasks including proofreading and writing headnotes for publications across the UK Law Reports portfolio to agreed quality standards, house style, and timelines
- Manage title responsibilities including case selection and scheduling to ensure content is published accurately and on time in print and electronic formats
- Monitor legal developments to ensure content remains current and relevant
- Flag concerns relating to anonymization, reporting restrictions, and any other matters affecting the reportability of judgments
- Identify and communicate risks to publishing schedules
- Liaise with external editors, authors, freelancers, judges, and judges’ clerks
- Manage relationships with authors, external editors, and freelancers
- Maintain editorial and stylistic standards, including updating or developing style guides and manuals
Requirements
- Law degree or equivalent qualification
- Professional legal qualification desirable but not essential
- Experience in editorial/legal publishing or case summarization with a demonstrated interest in the law
- Experience in legal publishing or editing, ideally involving law reporting or working with case materials
- Experience working collaboratively within a team environment
- Excellent verbal communication, editing skills, and written English with the ability to understand, navigate, and present complex legal materials
- Strong time management skills with the ability to prioritize work and meet frequent deadlines
- Proficiency in MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel), SharePoint, and an interest in learning new systems and technologies
Work in a Way That Works for You
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working Pattern
Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
About the Business
LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.
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