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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
In this role, you will be helping to provide legal practical guidance and market insight by contributing to the smooth running of the current awareness and LexisAsk services. You will be helping to source news items and to write and review legal news articles to be published on Lexis+ UK for UK legal practitioners.
Responsibilities
Current Awareness/News
- Daily monitoring of UK legal news developments, supporting the Lexis+ UK current awareness news and LexisAsk service for customers
- Drafting and reviewing legal news articles and Supreme Court enhanced coverage of cases for the current awareness service
- Delivering high standard and customer-ready news items that are delivered on the day, are factually correct, well written and adhere to LN house style
- Sourcing external authors and liaising with them to provide commentary for enhanced news pieces, news analysis and to repurpose externally written articles for the current awareness service
- Applying taxonomy to news items consistently and accurately
LexisAsk
- Monitoring the LexisAsk inbox and liaising with customers , triaging incoming LexisAsk queries from customers and assigning them to the correct Practice Area team using the correct Practice Area procedure
- Genericising complex legal questions and liaising with the Practice Area’s panel of Q&A experts to source responses from external authors
- Conducting legal research and liaising with subject matter experts within the Practical Guidance practice area teams
Requirements
Have a degree in Law, or equivalent experience
Comfortable working shift hours Monday–Friday, 10 AM–6 PM (June–Oct) and 11 AM–7 PM (Nov–March), SAST.
Demonstrate an eye for detail and a quality oriented focus
Be able to demonstrate excellent research and writing skills
Have a good understanding of legal issues, procedures and content types
Be able to think creatively, handle multiple tasks simultaneously and work to strict deadlines
Be able to communicate influentially and effectively to a range of audiences, including senior stakeholders
Be a natural, innovative problem solver, able to collaborate with your team to resolve issues
Have an understanding of, and willingness to use, social media and new technology
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 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.
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What We Do
LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world.
We help lawyers win cases, manage their work more efficiently, serve their clients better and grow their practices. We assist corporations in better understanding their markets, monitoring their brands and competition, and in mitigating business risk. We collaborate with universities to educate students, and we support nation-building with governments and courts by making laws accessible and strengthening legal infrastructures. We partner with leading global associations and customers to collect evidence against war criminals and provide tools to combat human trafficking.
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 130 countries with 10,000 employees worldwide, is part of RELX Group, a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.
