Legal Analyst

relx; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional in Malaysia is seeking a Legal Analyst/Editor to support expansion, maintenance, and publication of Hong Kong legislative content across our platforms. You will ensure accuracy, currency, and editorial integrity.

In this role you will work with AI-enabled editorial workflows, identify opportunities to improve prompts and processes, and collaborate with technology and product teams to enhance editorial solutions.

Qualifications

• Must hold a law degree (LLB/JD or equivalent).
• Ability to read and write Traditional Chinese.
• Strong legal research, analytical, and writing skills.
• High accuracy with editorial, proofreading, and QA skills.
• Experience interpreting amendments and maintaining publications or databases.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor Hong Kong legislation and related developments.
• Analyse amendments and implement statutory updates across products.
• Prepare legislative histories, editor's notes, and effective date notes.
• Develop roadmaps for amendments, repeals, and transitional provisions.
• Verify citations and legal references through research.
• Conduct editorial review to ensure content accuracy and currency.
• Support expansion of legislation content and onboarding of new content.

Skills

Legal research

Legal writing

Editorial/proofreading

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Traditional Chinese literacy

Education

LLB, JD, or equivalent law degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Legal research platforms

Job description

About our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading provider of legal data and information services. We specialise in delivering accurate, comprehensive, and timely legal content to professionals across various industries, including law firms, corporations, and government agencies. As a Legal Editor, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the integrity and quality of our legal data products.

About the Role

The Legal Analyst is responsible for supporting the expansion, maintenance, and publication of Hong Kong legislative content across LexisNexis legal products and digital platforms. The role ensures the integrity, accuracy, utility, and currency of legislation by analysing legislative developments, implementing statutory updates, and maintaining high editorial standards.

Responsibilities

Legislative Analysis

• Monitor Hong Kong legislation, Bills, subordinate legislation, and related legal developments.
• Analyse legislative amendments and accurately implement statutory updates across digital legal products.
• Prepare and maintain legislative histories, editor's notes, commencement information, effective date notes, cross-references, and statutory annotations.
• Develop legislative roadmaps identifying amendments, repeals, commencement provisions, savings, transitional provisions, and consequential legislative changes.
• Verify legislative citations, statutory history, and legal references through legal research.
• Conduct editorial review and quality assurance to ensure legislative content remains accurate, complete, and current.
• Support the expansion of Hong Kong legislation collections by preparing new content for publication in accordance with editorial standards.

AI-Enabled Editorial Workflows

• Apply legal expertise to verify AI-assisted legislative analysis, metadata, summaries, and editorial outputs.
• Identify opportunities to improve AI prompts, workflows, editorial processes, and quality assurance practices.
• Collaborate with technology and product teams to support the adoption and continuous enhancement of AI-enabled editorial solutions.

Project & Product Management

• Deliver legislative updates in accordance with publishing schedules, editorial priorities, and service level expectations.
• Manage multiple concurrent legislative projects while maintaining quality, accuracy, and timeliness.
• Support content expansion initiatives, new legislation onboarding, and product enhancement activities.
• Participate in product reviews and content improvement initiatives to ensure legislative collections continue to meet customer needs.
• Contribute to scalable editorial processes that support increasing legislative coverage across Hong Kong.

Stakeholder & Relationship Management

• Collaborate with editorial, product, technology, production, and operations teams to deliver high-quality legislative content.
• Work with external vendors, freelancers, and legal contributors to support legislative publishing activities where required.
• Provide subject matter expertise on Hong Kong legislation during cross-functional initiatives and product development projects.
• Respond to customer feedback and legislative content queries in a professional and timely manner.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve editorial standards, legislative maintenance processes, and publishing workflows.
• Contribute to the development of best practices for Hong Kong legislation editorial operations.
• Stay informed of developments in Hong Kong legislation, legal publishing, and legal technology to support continuous innovation.
• Support initiatives that improve automation, editorial efficiency, and content scalability.

Qualifications:

• LLB, JD, or equivalent law degree.
• Must be able to read and write Traditional Chinese.
• Strong understanding of Hong Kong legislation, statutory interpretation, and legislative research.
• Excellent legal research, analytical, and legal writing skills.
• High level of accuracy with strong editorial, proofreading, and quality assurance skills.
• Experience interpreting legislative amendments and maintaining legislative publications or legal databases.
• Strong organisational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and legal research platforms.
• Willingness to work with AI-enabled editorial technologies and evolving legal publishing workflows.

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