Legal Editor

2 weeks ago

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa LexisNexis Legal & Professional Full time
Are you looking for an exciting editorial role?Would you enjoy building relationships with our authors?

Join us in shaping a more just world.

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


As a Legal Editor, you will build author relationships, edit manuscript, plan publication releases, secure release highlights, and implement process improvements.

You will work with authors to ensure the accuracy, utility, and currency of the products, while complying with production schedules, best practices, and publishing standards.


Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain author relationships for existing publications, ensuring timely receipt of manuscript in proper format.
  • Develop, update, and adhere to production release schedules in compliance with customer and business needs.
  • Assure receipt of complete manuscript, supporting documentation, and release highlights for all publications.
  • Copyedit and review manuscript for substantive accuracy, with consideration for functionality in all media, and observing the conventions of the product itself and LexisNexis.
  • Implement operational efficiencies to support best practices and adherence to publishing milestones.
  • Support marketing and sales activities by collaborating with colleagues to create content for sales campaigns and training, value statements and other information as requested.
  • As determined by Director, contribute to initiatives as needed, including competitor analysis, content expansion, new product development, Practical Guidance, CLE, sales training, tool testing, or other new initiatives that may arise.

Requirements:

  • LLB and admitted preferred
  • Prior publishing experience or legal practice experience strongly preferred
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, a positive attitude, and professional demeanor for routine contact with geographically diverse authors, colleagues, customers, and vendors.
  • Strong editorial skills; attention to detail, style, format, consistency, and quality.
  • Time management skills to meet rigid and frequent deadlines.
  • Technical proficiency preferred, including mastery of MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel), familiarity with XML/HTML content management systems, and a basic understanding of Continuous Improvement methodology (Agile, Lean Six Sigma, automation fundamentals process excellence).
  • Ability to work flexible hours to accommodate collaboration across multiple time zones. Core hours are 12pm 6pm SAST, but flexibility to attend meetings beyond 6pm SAST on a regular basis is required.

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.

Together, we are building a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Working for you
We believe in a healthy work/life balance. 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:

  • Comprehensive, multicarrier health plan benefits
  • Disability insurance
  • Dependent care and commuter spending accounts
  • Life and accident insurance
  • Retirement benefits
  • Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy

About our Team
LexisNexis is a data and analytics company with 10,500 colleagues serving customers in more than 150 countries. We're one of the largest information and analytics companies on the planet. We design solutions that help our customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and be more successful.

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent

Application Question(s):

  • What are your monthly CTC salary expectations?
  • What is your notice period?
  • Have you had cases assigned to you, that you managed independently?
What actions did you take on those cases?

  • Are you based in the Durban area?

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