[Remote] Legal Content Development Associate

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leader in providing information-based analytics and decision tools for the legal market. They are seeking a Content Development Associate to manage legal publications and ensure content quality, while collaborating with authors and various departments to meet publishing standards.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of designated publications, available both online and in print
• Collaborate and follow-up with authors to ensure timely delivery of manuscripts according to our publishing schedule
• Review manuscripts to make sure they adhere to our author guidelines and provide feedback to authors
• Identify and develop new English-language legal content assets required for various product lines, including LexisNexis Canada’s print, eBooks, and our online research service, Lexis Advance Quicklaw™
• Recruit new authors and proceed to author replacement for publications within your portfolio
• Assess financial viability of new content proposals to determine whether they should be pursued
• Draft and negotiate publishing contracts
• Identify, organize and develop content improvements
• Build and maintain good public relations with the legal community, including practitioners, academics, members of the judiciary, librarians, market research contacts, and other external customers
• Work with Marketing and Sales departments to build 'go-to-market' strategies
• Act as a resource person for authors and our different departments for publications within your portfolio

Skills

• A Canadian law degree, or a law degree from another jurisdiction with a Certificate of Qualification from Canada's National Committee on Accreditation
• At least 1 year's practice/articling or legal publishing experience
• Excellent organizational skills and keen attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines for print, online and newsletter releases
• Strong relationship-building skills and ability to work collaboratively as part of cross-departmental project teams
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and negotiation skills
• Experience operating with AI as a standard part of workflows, including demonstrated hands-on experience using LLMs and AI-enabled tools daily to support content and analysis; iterating prompts to improve output quality and consistency
• Knowledge of Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Office suite

Benefits

• Health plan benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement Benefits
• Various Leave Programs
• Educational Assistance
• Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Paid Vacation
• Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

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