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About the Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, 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.

About the Role
As an Editor you will primarily write headnotes for UK Law Report titles. You will be ensuring their accuracy, quality and timeliness, whilst collaborating
and coordinating with other team members to meet publishing schedules.
 

Responsibilities
 

• Writing accurate headnotes for publication across the UK Law Reports portfolio, to requisite quality, house style, within agreed target
• Proofreading judgments to ensure accuracy and compliance with house style
• Flagging concerns around anonymization, reporting restrictions and any other matter that may impact the reportability of a judgment
•   Working collaboratively with the UK Editorial team to meet scheduling needs. Continue to meet editorial, stylistic and functional standards required by customers. Edit and style material in the relevant format, using templates where relevant.
• Attending training sessions as required, taking onboard feedback for improvement and performing other duties as reasonably requested
• Flagging risks to publishing schedules and respond effectively in a timely, professional manner, to queries from the UK Editorial team
• Assisting in project work as appropriate to support new business initiatives, mentoring and supervision of less experienced staff where required

Requirements
 

• Solid experience in editorial/legal publishing or case summarization and showing interest in the law
• Excellent verbal, editing skills and written English, the ability to understand, navigate and present complex legal materials
• Good interpersonal skills, positive attitude and professionalism
• Ability to manage own workload to meet targets
• Working knowledge of MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel), SharePoint and an interest in learning new systems/technologies such as AI.
• Able to adapt to working practices in response to changing business demands
• Able to work independently and determine appropriate methodology to work toward a defined goal, asking for direction/assistance as necessary

Working for You

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
- Medical Aid
- Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
- Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
- Study Leave

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.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.

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