Legal Editor: Analytical

The Legal Editor, Analytical is responsible for recruiting and maintaining author relationships;
editing manuscripts forlegal accuracy, style, grammar, punctuation, and spelling;
planning publication update releases;
and securing release highlights for publication updates. For all content and in all media, the Legal Editor will 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.
The Legal Editor will 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 ensure the quality and timely completion of 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.
The Legal Editor will also serve as an advisor for offshore team members, providing content editing guidance when appropriate. As needed, the Legal Editor will 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 overlaps, 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, Continuing Legal Education (CLEs), newsroom content, classroom tools, and other new methods that may arise.
- Accountabilities
- 1. Author Relationships:
- 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 etc. as needed.
- Consult and negotiate with the author(s) of assigned works/products regarding any material changes to such works/products.
- Partner with authors to ensure the timely delivery of manuscript in the appropriate format.
- Encourage authors to use tools to submit manuscript more efficiently.
- Arrange for author payment and support the Royalty Accounting team.
- Develop strong author relationships that can potentially benefit other departments at LN including marketing, and product strategy and development.
- Partner with Product Managers and the Legal Department to dissolve unsuccessful author relationships.
- 2. Planning and Scheduling:
- Collaborate with authors and, as appropriate, Product Managers to develop and update production release schedules in compliance with customer and business needs.
- Alert the Managing Editor immediately of any changes or developments that may affect the publishing schedule, i.E. that may delay or accelerate publication, reduce or increase costs, or result in a workload that deviates from that budgeted for.
- 3. Manuscript Management:
- 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.
- Help with the design/creation of sample pages for new works/products as required.
- Establish and manage budgets for author and other outside editorial payments for manuscript preparation, ensuring that budgets are not exceeded.
- Ensure that invoices for any work done on an assigned work/product are submitted in good time and are accurate and complete.
- 4. Editing:
- Comply with author manuscript update directions. Copy edit and review for substantive accuracy, as appropriate, assigned publications, with consideration for content functionality in all media and observing the conventions of the work/product concerned ensuring they accord with general publishing conventions or with other acceptable LexisNexis conventions.
- Check the accuracy of references to legislation in assigned works/products.
- Compile supplementary matter (e.G. table of contents, table of cases, table of statutes, bulletin, control/instruction sheet, etc.) or check such matter as required.
- Check the correctness of the information on covers, binder mock-ups or proofs, or in marketing or associated material, as required.
- 5. Communication:
- Managing relevant 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.
- Ensure that work performed by internal or external service providers for an assigned