Company Counsel
Are you passionate about helping advance high-quality research and publishing practices while providing practical legal guidance in a dynamic global environment?
Do you enjoy partnering with stakeholders to solve complex legal and ethical challenges, balancing risk with commercial objectives to achieve positive outcomes?
About the Role
As Company Counsel, you will report directly to the General Counsel, Content, and support Elsevier’s content acquisition teams. You will provide legal and transactional support across publishing ethics and research integrity, contracting, rights clearance, disputes, and compliance matters, helping teams navigate risk while enabling business objectives.
You will work closely with colleagues across the Legal Department and cross-functional business teams, delivering clear, practical advice and contributing to effective and consistent legal processes across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Advising on publishing ethics and research integrity issues, defamation, infringements, contract and other disputes, and related compliance matters.
- Developing and negotiating contracts with rightsholders, including identifying key risks, approval requirements and practical ways forward.
- Supporting content acquisition teams by assessing legal and reputational risks clearly and early, and balancing those risks with commercial needs.
- Developing and maintaining templates, training, processes and policies.
- Communicating advice clearly and professionally, with practical recommendations and realistic timescales.
- Identifying recurring issues and opportunities to improve guidance, standardisation and ways of working.
- Working with Legal Department colleagues and cooperating across cross-functional corporate business units and departments to timely achieve optimal results while minimising risk.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer in UK or another recognised common or civil law jurisdiction.
- Previous experience in a law firm or an in-house legal department.
- Prior publishing or intellectual property experience preferred.
- Sound legal and commercial judgement, with the ability to assess issues, make recommendations and escalate with context and proposed solutions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to calmly and independently prioritize and execute tasks and demonstrate flexibility in a fast-paced environment.
- Team player/ willingness to develop new skills.
- Interest in and openness to developing AI fluency and leveraging technology to enhance legal service delivery.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Requires business-level English.
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
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.
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Skills Required
- Qualified lawyer in the UK or another recognized common or civil law jurisdiction
- Previous experience in a law firm or in-house legal department
- Business-level English
- Sound legal and commercial judgment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to independently prioritize and execute tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Publishing or intellectual property experience
- Interest in developing AI fluency and leveraging technology for legal service delivery
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
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What We Do
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.
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