Legal Editor
2 weeks ago
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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 (built and maintained by our own specialist lawyers, tax professionals, expert contributors and consulting editorial boards).
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 and communicative manner.
- Ensuring our products work – solving technical issues yourself or by escalating to the right colleagues.
- Understanding the intended customer experience and tailoring approach accordingly.
- Building outstanding working relationships with authors – communicating with them on a daily basis to understand priorities, customer initiatives and market changes.
- Identifying issues, proactively suggesting and implementing solutions, and ensuring authors are aware of (and adhering to) best practice and have the information they need to deliver content.
- Working closely with London colleagues and offshore editors to communicate priorities and update on technical and other changes – keeping offshore team members plugged in by speaking regularly and sharing information.
- Advising on best practice and delivering feedback and training.
- Leading content update and enrichment projects (eg where a large number of documents need to change at the same time).
- Understanding author and product requirements, communicating plans and drawing in editorial resource as appropriate.
- Meeting and exceeding challenging deadlines and working with third party suppliers when necessary.
- Understanding and taking ownership of editorial processes and leading Continuous Improvement initiatives.
- Ensuring offshore editors and partner teams are aware of correct process, working with colleagues and management to streamline processes to enable the quick delivery of quality content.
- Delivering training, masterclasses and feedback sessions on processes and best practice to editors (UK & the Philippines), authors and other teams.
- Working with training team to ensure guidance documentation is maintained, drafting and circulating new material when required.
- Testing product and CMS functionality as required, and delivering editorial projects required to support the development and launch of new offerings.
- Building relationships with other teams we work with, eg fabrication, sales, etc and acting as an ambassador for the team in the global business.
- Working with project teams to understand changes to functionality, workflow, processes and systems, and ensuring that these are tested and incorporated into "business as usual" processes.
Specialist knowledge/skills required:
- Proven first-rate 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 proven ability to coordinate projects (planning approach, resourcing appropriately).
- Outstanding communication skills (experience working with legal/tax professionals or similar is an advantage), and ability to negotiate and influence to ensure the best possible outcomes for the business.
- Interest in and ability to upskill on AI and automation, submit internal AI ideas and conduct business experiments using generative AI tools.
- Legal qualification and/or background an advantage.
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