Legal Editor Practice Area Content

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Legal Editor, Practice Area Content

The candidate will recruit and maintain author relationships, editing manuscripts for legal accuracy, style, grammar, punctuation, and spelling, planning publication update releases, and securing release highlights for publication updates. Work with the authors to ensure the accuracy, utility, and currency of the products, while also complying with Analytical schedules, best practices workflow, and publishing standards. Work with Content Operations partners, Indexing, offshore team members, and vendors, as required, to define the most appropriate production channel for each publication, and implement streamlined processes to assure the quality and timely completion for all aspects of product releases in all media. The Legal Editor will stay abreast of all new tool developments and adapt to best practices as product requirements dictate. Serve as an advisor for offshore team members, providing content editing guidance when appropriate. Provide support to Product Managers staying abreast of news, legislative, litigation and other legal developments and trends in order to assess product-specific competition, ensure appropriate coverage in the portfolio(s), identify gaps and overlap, and advise on ways to make content available in all media, and, if applicable, may be asked to help develop multimedia content, such as videos, webinars, CLEs, newsroom content, classroom tools, and other new methods that may arise. Maintain author relationships for existing publications, ensuring timely receipt of manuscript. Engage in author recruitment for both existing and new products in any media, including, but not limited to, identifying author prospects, contacting them, negotiating an agreement for their services, and drafting the author agreement. Provide authors with legal areas of focus, emerging issues, as needed. Partner with authors to assure the timely delivery of manuscript in appropriate format. Encourage authors to use tools to more efficiently submit manuscript. Arrange for author payment. Develop strong author relationships that can potentially benefit other departments at LN including marketing, and product strategy and development. Partner with Product Managers and Legal Department to dissolve unsuccessful author relationships. Collaborate with author and, as appropriate, Product Managers to develop production release schedules in compliance with customer and business needs. Assure the receipt of complete manuscript, supporting documentation, and release highlights for all publications. Prepare relevant internal documentation, together with supporting hard copy, files, and illustrations, for timely delivery, with edited manuscript, to Indexing, Operations and the offshore team as appropriate. Establish and manage budgets for author and other outside editorial payments for manuscript preparation. Comply with author manuscript update directions. Copy editing and review for substantive accuracy, as appropriate, assigned publications with consideration for content functionality in all media. Manage outsourcing projects, including drafting instructions and providing feedback to vendors/contractors/offshore team. Report status as needed to Editorial Directors, Content Operations SMEs, and Operations directors in a consistent and effective format. Perform quality review of products in all media. Support continuous improvement by driving operational excellence and seeking to enhance customer value via ongoing educational training. Implement operational efficiencies to support best practices and adherence to milestone publication dates. Assess critical needs of publications, the best production approach for each release cycle, and determine the use of internal and external resources. Define appropriate production process for new products as assigned. Participate in research and development of new technologies and procedures. Leverage existing knowledge of tools and processes by cross training and sharing information with team members. Help customers with product-specific inquiries for assigned products. Support marketing and sales activities by collaborating with colleagues to create content for sales campaigns and training, including the creation of value statements and other information as requested. Track and monitor relevant legislation, case law, news, and developments as needed to maintain awareness of current topics for inclusion in assigned publications. Support Initiatives: As determined by the Editorial Director, contribute to initiatives as needed, including competitive analysis, content expansion/new product development, Practical Guidance, CLE, sales training, tool testing, or other new initiatives that may arise. Bachelor's degree and J.D. is preferred, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Prior publishing experience or writing experience or legal practice experience is preferred. Technical proficiency is preferred, including familiarity with XML/HTML, content management systems, as well as a basic understanding of Agile methodology and automation fundamentals.

Additional Information

Job requisition ID: R50309

Company info

LexisNexis
121 Chanlon Road
New Providence
New Jersey
United States 07974
Website : http://www.lexisnexis.com