Legal Editor, Practice Area
LexisNexis
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇿🇦 South Africa
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Junior
About the role
- Curate, enhance, and expand authoritative US legal analysis by partnering with expert authors and leveraging AI‑enabled editorial tools
- Recruit, onboard, and support external authors; set expectations for scope, style, and delivery
- Maintain long‑term relationships with contributors and manage contributor contracts within approved budgets
- Track legislative, regulatory, and case‑law developments to keep content current and identify content opportunities
- Manage portfolio delivery plans and collaborate with Content Operations to balance quality, speed, and cost
- Provide substantive and structural updates/edits ensuring accuracy, clarity, and cross‑platform functionality
- Act as content expert for assigned practice areas and supply requirements for customer‑facing features
- Support Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success with subject‑matter expertise
- Leverage generative AI, automation, and data to streamline content development and editorial processes
Requirements
- Have a degree in law (LLB, JD, or equivalent)
- Advanced degree in taxation a plus
- Have at least 1 year of professional tax experience in practice, corporate, or advisory settings
- Demonstrated ability to scope requirements for new legal content
- Edit complex legal analysis for clarity, consistency, and voice
- Be comfortable using LLMs for legal research; skilled at crafting prompts, evaluating outputs, and iterating
- Able to interpret market signals, customer feedback, and data to inform content initiatives
- Clear and positive communicator; collaborative and able to deliver on commitments
Benefits
- Medical Aid
- Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
- Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
- Shared parental leave
- Study Leave
- Study assistance
- Sabbaticals
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Promotion of a healthy work/life balance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
legal analysiscontent editingcontent developmenttax experiencelegal researchprompt craftingdata interpretationcontent scopingeditorial processescontract management
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationcommitment deliveryrelationship managementexpectation settingsubject-matter expertiseclarityconsistencypositive attitudeadaptability
Certifications
LLBJDadvanced degree in taxation