Legal Editor: Secondary - Durban at LexisNexis

About the Role

As a Legal Editor, you will support the North American Secondary Content team to build author relationships, edit manuscripts, plan publication releases, secure release highlights, and implement process improvements. You will work with authors to ensure the accuracy, utility, and currency of the products, while complying with production schedules, best practices, and publishing standards.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain author relationships for existing publications, ensuring timely receipt of manuscript in proper format.
• Develop, update, and adhere to production release schedules in compliance with customer and business needs.
• Assure receipt of complete manuscript, supporting documentation, and release highlights for all publications.
• Copyedit and review manuscript for substantive accuracy, with consideration for functionality in all media, and observing the conventions of the product itself and LexisNexis.
• Implement operational efficiencies to support best practices and adherence to publishing milestones.
• Support marketing and sales activities by collaborating with colleagues to create content for sales campaigns and training, value statements and other information as requested.
• As determined by Director, contribute to initiatives as needed, including competitor analysis, content expansion, new product development, Practical Guidance, CLE, sales training, tool testing, or other new initiatives that may arise.

Requirements

• LLB or equivalent legal degree
• Prior publishing experience or legal practice experience strongly preferred
• Excellent interpersonal skills, a positive attitude, and professional demeanor for routine contact with geographically diverse authors, colleagues, customers, and vendors.
• Strong editorial skills; attention to detail, style, format, consistency, and quality.
• Time management skills to meet rigid and frequent deadlines.
• Technical proficiency preferred, including mastery of MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel), familiarity with XML/HTML content management systems, and a basic understanding of Continuous Improvement methodology (Agile, Lean Six Sigma, automation fundamentals process excellence).
• Ability to work flexible hours to accommodate collaboration across multiple time zones. Core hours are 12pm – 6pm SAST, but flexibility to attend meetings beyond 6pm SAST on a regular basis is required.