Paralegal (LexisPSL Hub) Farringdon 2023

Are you ready for the next step in your legal career?

Join us in shaping a more just world. 6 months contract with potential to extend.

About us

With our amazing 10,500 people, advanced technology, and expertise, we have the extraordinary opportunity to shape a more just world for ourselves, our customers and communities, and people everywhere.

We are dedicated to the mission of advancing the rule of law and our people can see the bright line between strengthening legal infrastructures and furthering peace, prosperity, and progress for all people.

About the role

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a talented paralegal to join the LexisPSL Hub to help contribute towards the future development of LexisPSL, LexisLibrary and Lexis+UK, LexisNexis UK's online practical guidance and research product for lawyers and legal professionals.

This position will have a particular emphasis on the following Practice Areas: Commercial, TMT, Information Law, IP, Life Sciences, EU Law, Energy, Environment, Property, Practice Compliance, Practice Management, Risk & Compliance, In-house Advisor and Scotland. There are three main components of the LexisNexis offering which this role will contribute to:

• Practical Guidance content—our Practical Guidance product provides legal practical guidance and market insight which a busy front-line practitioner can read and digest quickly and easily. It is presented in a range of different content types including Practice Notes, precedents, checklists, and flowcharts.
• Current awareness service—via our current awareness service, we provide legal updates and analysis to our core online products, LexisLibrary, LexisPSL and Lexis+ UK. We cover legal and regulatory stories and provide insight into how they could impact lawyers and their clients. Information is published online and sent to customers via a range of different email alerts.
• LexisAsk service—via LexisAsk, Practical Guidance customers can submit queries in relation to any of the 36 Practice Areas. In supporting this service, you will be expected to carry out legal research, draft answers to LexisAsk questions and contribute to the smooth running of the service.

Responsibilities

Core content

Working closely with the LexisPSL teams and the external commissioning team to commission and draft practical guidance.

• reviewing new and existing content for quality and legal accuracy
• monitoring of developments and inputting information to maintain trackers of consultations, cases and dates
• drafting practical guidance content (eg practice notes, precedents, trackers, checklists, news and Q&As)
• collaborating with external authors regarding externally written content
• arranging and taking notes at Consulting Editorial Board and other meetings and liaising with CEB members and authors when required
• having input into the development of technical solutions with our product teams, to ensure that we are delivering guidance research, current awareness and LexisAsk in the most efficient way possible
• assist with project to improve functionality of LexisNexis online materials
• conduct testing of the online platform and assist in amending online legal content, as required
• participate in internal feedback activities regarding functionality of the online platform
• support work on feature development for the online legal platform

LexisAsk

Helping to respond to LexisAsk queries by:

• conducting legal research and liaising with subject matter experts within the LexisPSL practice area teams, and/or
• drafting replies to queries from customers within a specified response time
• compiling a bank of ’Q&A’ style documents across our suite of LexisPSL content, adhering to the defined style guidelines. ’Q&As’ are designed to share answers to previously asked customer questions, as well as provide brief advice on topical queries.
• working on initiatives and process in particular to help develop the smooth running of the service in order to increase efficiency in both the delivery of ‘live’ LexisAsk answers and ‘Q&A’ content.

Current awareness

Helping to deliver our current awareness offering by:

• ensuring all news items are written to a high standard and edited and checked for accuracy, grammar, punctuation, clarity, flow, style, and news value
• applying taxonomy to news items consistently and accurately
• checking and proofing of content before publication, addressing and resolving publishing issues and making recommendations for process improvements
• supporting the development and implementation of initiatives to grow and improve the current awareness offering of LexisNexis

Requirements

• Law degree/GDL/LPC/BTC
• Excellent academic qualifications and legal research and writing skills
• Passionate about a career in the practice areas mentioned above
• Good understanding of legal issues, procedures, and content types
• Experience working in a legal environment, e.g. private practice/in-house or at the Bar (desirable)
• Experience supporting legal practitioners with research (desirable)
• Ability to prioritise work to ensure deadlines are met and stakeholder expectations are managed
• Clear succinct writing style and ability to adapt to LexisNexis house style
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• High attention to detail

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization, with various flexible and remote working options available to employees.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are strongly committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Working for you

We believe in and promote a healthy work/life balance. At LexisNexis, we know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Comprehensive health plan benefits
• Disability insurance
• Dependent care and commuter spending accounts
• Life and accident insurance
• Retirement benefits (salary investment plan/employer stock purchase plan)
• Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy

About our team

LexisNexis is a data and analytics company with 10,500 colleagues serving customers in more than 150 countries. We’re one of the largest information and analytics companies on the planet. We design solutions that help our customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and be more successful.

LexisNexis, a division of RELX Group, is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form.