Junior Editor

CLJ Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.; Ampang Jaya; On-site; MYR 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

CLJ Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. is seeking a Junior Editor to ensure accuracy and quality of judgments, articles, and manuscripts. You will edit judgments, write concise summaries, and extract key holdings while delivering tasks on time.

The role requires a Law degree and 1–2 years in the legal field, with strong editing, grammar, and English/Bahasa Malaysia communication skills. Working closely with editors, you will contribute to quality journals and related materials.

Qualifications

• Degree in Law is required.
• At least 1–2 years working experience in legal field; publishing or legal research background advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Proofreading – Apply in-house styles for accuracy and consistency.
• Prepare headnotes for selected cases and translate headnotes when necessary.
• Liaise with Typesetting on layout of journals and accuracy of content.
• Research on citation, legislation, and legal quotations to ensure precision.
• Final proofreading of cases before releasing to printer for printing.
• Close journals before printing run.
• Monitor quality of headnotes written by external headnoters.
• Edit headnotes written by internal & external headnoters.
• Liaise with Judges and Court Registrars to clarify issues on judgments or cases as needed.
• Approve proof copy from printer before full run.
• Assist Senior Editors in publication of journals and other collaterals.
• Coordinate with other departments on business activity needs.

Skills

Editing

Team player

Grammar & spelling

English & Bahasa Malaysia comms

Education

Law degree

Job description

A Junior Editor is responsible for the accuracy and quality of contents of reported and unreported judgments, articles, manuals or manuscripts. In this duty, the junior editor should be well versed, in the main, with editing of the judgments as well as ability to write a summary of the same, extracting the most important points and holdings of the court and the timely completion of work assigned.

Requirements

• Degree in Law.
• At least 1-2 years working experience in legal field. Publishing or legal research background would be advantageous.

Core Skills

1. Editing.
2. Team player.
3. Excellent grammar and spelling knowledge.
4. Excellent written and verbal communication in English and Bahasa Malaysia.

Job Responsibilities

1. Proofreading – Application of in-house house styles.
2. Prepare headnotes for selected cases and where necessary, to translate the headnotes.
3. Liaise with Typesetting section on layout of journals.
4. Research on citation, legislation, legal quotations , etc. to ensure accuracy.
5. Final proofreading of cases before releasing to printer for printing.
6. Closing of journal before releasing to printer for printing.
7. Monitor quality of headnotes written by external headnoters.
8. Edit headnotes written by internal & external headnoters.
9. Liaise with Judges and Court Registrars to clarify issues on judgments or cases whenever necessary.
10. Approve proof copy from printer before full run is carried out.
11. Assist Senior Editors in matters related to the publication of journals and/or other company collaterals.
12. Coordinate with other departments on needs related to business activities that may take place from time to time.

Founded in 1981, CLJ Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (formerly known as The Malaysian Current Law Journal Sdn Bhd) is a home-grown publishing house dedicated to quality law publishing and case reporting.

Its subsidiary companies, CLJ Legal Network and Mylawbox Sdn Bhd, collectively known as ‘CLJ’, have served as the chosen information provider to the legal, human resources, education and finance industries in Malaysia as well as abroad.

In 1997, we launched Malaysia’s first online legal database and our comprehensive website, www.cljlaw.com currently has a data volume of close to 1,000,000 unique records spanning over 100 years of court decisions and laws. To date we have launched two more specialist websites on labour and commonwealth laws.

The companies’ products also include case law reports, academic textbooks, practitioner’s handbooks, online libraries, legislation citator and law reviews.

CLJ Group Of Companies

Our products range across four divisions i.e. print, online, events and digital. We are the single largest legal publisher of Malaysian court judgments from the Magistrate and Sessions courts right up to the Federal Court level. Our reports and journals are authoritative and can be cited and used as legal precedence in Courtrooms across the world. We also publish textbooks both in hard copy as well as in e-book format on various legal topics as well as human resources and tax.

Founded in 1981, CLJ Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (formerly known as The Malaysian Current Law Journal Sdn Bhd) is a home-grown publishing house dedicated to quality law publishing and case reporting.

Its subsidiary companies, CLJ Legal Network and Mylawbox Sdn Bhd, collectively known as ‘CLJ’, have served as the chosen information provider to the legal, human resources, education and finance industries in Malaysia as well as abroad.

In 1997, we launched Malaysia’s first online legal database and our comprehensive website, www.cljlaw.com currently has a data volume of close to 1,000,000 unique records spanning over 100 years of court decisions and laws. To date we have launched two more specialist websites on labour and commonwealth laws.

The companies’ products also include case law reports, academic textbooks, practitioner’s handbooks, online libraries, legislation citator and law reviews.

CLJ Group Of Companies

Our products range across four divisions i.e. print, online, events and digital. We are the single largest legal publisher of Malaysian court judgments from the Magistrate and Sessions courts right up to the Federal Court level. Our reports and journals are authoritative and can be cited and used as legal precedence in Courtrooms across the world. We also publish textbooks both in hard copy as well as in e-book format on various legal topics as well as human resources and tax.