Copy Editor — Legal News & Analysis (Australia)

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Law360 Australia is seeking an experienced Copy Editor with about 2 to 6 years of professional experience to join its Australian newsroom. The role focuses on editing breaking news, analysis and features across complex legal and business topics, ensuring accuracy, clarity and professional house style.

You will work closely with reporters, editors and internal legal teams to maintain editorial quality, provide feedback, and help shape the newsroom standards in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Must have tertiary qualification or equivalent experience.
• Experience editing daily news, legal or business topics is a plus.
• Strong grammar, spelling and style sense required.

Responsibilities

• Editing daily news stories for accuracy, clarity, structure and readability.
• Correcting factual, grammatical, spelling and stylistic errors.
• Writing accurate, engaging headlines for a professional audience.
• Ensuring articles meet Law360’s editorial standards and house style.
• Applying sound news judgement and prioritising important breaking stories.
• Identifying and escalating potential legal, ethical or editorial risks.
• Providing clear, constructive feedback to reporters.
• Helping develop and maintain newsroom style guidance.
• Editing and publishing articles contributed by external legal experts.
• Liaising professionally with contributors and internal legal teams.
• Contributing to editorial planning and newsroom discussions.
• Collaborating with Law360 colleagues locally and internationally.
• Exploring approved tools, including generative AI, while maintaining strong human editorial judgement.

Skills

Copy editing

News judgment

Headlines writing

Attention to detail

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification

Job description

Law360 Australia is seeking an experienced Copy Editor with about 2 to 6 years of professional experience to join its Australian newsroom. The role focuses on editing breaking news, analysis and features across complex legal and business topics, ensuring accuracy, clarity and professional house style.

You will work closely with reporters, editors and internal legal teams to maintain editorial quality, provide feedback, and help shape the newsroom standards in a fast-paced environment.