Assistant Editor/Paralegal, Practical Law, Legal Solutions UKI

Assistant Editor/Paralegal, Practical Law, Legal Solutions UKI

London

Competitive Salary 

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Position Title: Assistant Editor/Paralegal, Practical Law, Legal Solutions UKI 
Position Type: Permanent

Role Purpose/ Summary:  To provide efficient and responsive administrative and editorial assistance to one or more of the Practical Law Practice Areas within Editorial, Legal Solutions UKI.

Major Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

• Conducting and/or supporting the process for trawling websites and other sources of information to identify developments to cover in the Practical Law current awareness product offering. 
• In collaboration with senior colleagues, filtering irrelevant results from the trawl, flagging how trawl items relate to previously covered items. 
• Managing the processes for sending daily and weekly update e-mails and alerts.
• With support and supervision from colleagues, writing first drafts of new content for online publication and maintaining existing content, liaising with others to ensure that content is up-to-date and reflects current legal and market practice and is of the quality and scope that meets business objectives and customer needs.
• Under supervision, making changes to published content as part of the maintenance cycle.
• Assisting with the maintenance of online and hard copy resources, including legislation trackers.
• With support and supervision from colleagues, responding to queries from customers and providing support to others to ensure that questions are answered and published appropriately.
• Proof reading new content, making corrections and ensuring that new content is produced in compliance with technical and editorial requirements.
• Providing administrative support to the group to help implement new technology and working systems.
• Performing general administration duties and managing internal processes for the Practice Area teams, particularly in relation to the planned move to new offices in Canary Wharf.

Mandatory Skills and Experience: 

• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experienced at working to deadlines and able to prioritise and manage own workload.
• Experienced in assimilating and applying new complex information.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
• Excellent knowledge of online research databases.
• Excellent attention to detail.

Desirable Skills and Experience: 
Previous experience working in a Legal/Publishing environment, using technology to create and disseminate online content.

Education/ Certifications Required: 

• Undergraduate Law Degree; or
• Undergraduate Degree in a subject other than Law and Graduate Diploma in Law.

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