Legal Editor

Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

LexisNexis is a global leader in providing industry-leading legal content to professionals across various markets. Our cutting-edge information solutions uphold the law across borders as the world and technology evolve.

About the Role:

The Legal Editor/Practice Area Lead is responsible for the overall management of a number of content products within their practice area portfolio. This is a diverse role that includes content development and strategy, author commissioning and relationship management, and close interaction with product, sales, customer experience, marketing and customer discovery teams.

The role is responsible for ensuring high quality and current content, developing strong relationships with new and existing authors, commissioning and editing content, and working closely with external providers and internal teams. This role is also responsible for the implementation of major content-related developments or new products.

Reporting to the Practice Area Manager, this is a full-time role to be based in Wellington or Auckland, New Zealand with the possibility of combined home/office-based arrangements to have flexible work-life balance.

Responsibilities:

Content Management & Operational Efficiency:

Awareness of developments, legislative reforms, procedures, case law and trends within practice area

Editing all submitted content for grammar, sense, clarity and accuracy.

Deep understanding of publishing processes and coordination with third parties to ensure content quality and timeliness to market.

Responsible for providing expertise in relation to product and/or practice area specific features, key functions and overall value to customers.

Cost Management:

Managing costs and providing information to support cost planning.

Relationship Management (external & internal):

Full management of all authors within portfolio including author commissioning/decommissioning, contract negotiations and queries, and content maintenance & development.

Requirements:

Law degree or demonstrated legal practice area knowledge and legal research skills and/or publishing experience.

Superior reading and legal comprehension skills with high attention to detail is a must to succeed in this role.

Familiarity with te reo Māori and a commitment to ensuring growth of content that includes tikanga Māori, matauranga Māori and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Excellent communication, organisation and problem-solving skills.

Demonstrated project management skills.

Excellent relationship-building and networking skills.

Sound level of computer literacy and computer skills in Microsoft Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint.

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, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

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.

Working for you

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

Discounted Health plan rate and Optical Assistance

Life assurance and income protection

Option to buy additional Annual Leave days

Parental Leave, Volunteer Leave, Birthday Leave, Long Service Leave, Bereavement Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Flexible working arrangements

Benefits for you and your family

Access to learning and development resources

Your recruiter will advise you on the full benefits package for your location.

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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We are looking to fill this role as soon as possible – apply now to be considered.

Thank you for your interest.

LexisNexis, a division of RELX Group, is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: https://forms.office.com/r/eVgFxjLmAK , or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

RELX is a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.

We help scientists make new discoveries, lawyers win cases, doctors save lives and insurance companies offer customers lower prices. We save taxpayers and consumers money by preventing fraud and help executives forge commercial relationships with their clients.

In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.

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