Paralegal

Paralegal, Lexis®PSL Hub

Main purpose of the role:This is a six month contract role working with the Solutions team on technology development as well as supporting the Lexis®PSL Paralegal Hub to help deliver paralegal support to the LexisPSL practice areas. There are five main components of the LexisNexis offering which this role will contribute to:

LexisAsk service—via LexisAsk, LexisPSL customers can submit queries in relation to any of our 35 LexisPSL 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.

Current awareness service—via our current awareness service, we provide legal updates and analysis to our two core online products, LexisLibrary and LexisPSL. 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.

Core content in LexisPSL—LexisPSL 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.

Lexis Create V2 - our next generation of drafting tool providing lawyers with everything they need to complete client work in the MS environment.

Context - our analytics product providing AI driven insights into our case law data sets

Duties and responsibilities:

Solutions

• Working closely with the product managers in the Solutions Team to provide subject matter expertise input into the new products being developed. This will include work such as:
• Reviewing AI led sentiment analysis
• Providing feedback on matching content to market agreements
• Suggesting improvements, enhancements to new products being developed

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

Core content

• Working closely with the LexisPSL practice area teams and the Content Acquisition team to commission and draft practical guidance. This work will include:
• reviewing new and existing content for quality and legal accuracy
• drafting practical guidance content (eg Practice Notes, precedents, checklists etc)
• collaborating with external authors regarding externally-written content
• Having input into the development of technical solutions with our product teams, to ensure that we are delivering guidance, current awareness and LexisAsk in the most efficient way possible

Experience

• Law degree/GDL.
• LPC/BPTC.
• Specific knowledge of one or more LexisPSL practice areas.
• Good understanding of legal issues, procedures and content types, eg precedents.
• Experience working in a legal environment, eg private practice/in-house or at the Bar.
• Experience supporting legal practitioners with legal research.
• Ability to prioritise work to ensure deadlines are met and stakeholder expectations are managed.
• Good communication skills.
• Good technology skills.
• Clear succinct writing style. Ability to adapt to LexisNexis house style.
• Strong legal research, writing and analytical skills.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Concern for high standards.
• Flexibility.
• Self-motivated and team player.
• Ability to be creative, innovative and to spot opportunities.
• Ability to deal with stakeholders at every level, including lawyers, contributors, sales teams etc.
• Understanding of, and willingness to use, social media and new technology.

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. If a qualified individual with a disability or disabled veteran needs a reasonable accommodation to use or access our online system, that individual should please contact accommodations@relx.com or if you are based in the US you may also contact us on 1.855.833.5120.

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