Legal Analyst

LexisNexis; Malaysia; Hybrid; MYR 124,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Learning resources

Life assurance

Long service award

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional seeks a Legal Editor to support expansion, maintenance, and publication of Hong Kong legislative content. You will ensure accuracy, currency, and quality of legislation across digital platforms.

You will collaborate with editorial, technology, product, and operations teams to enhance AI-enabled workflows and scalable editorial processes, maintaining high standards and timely updates across multiple projects.

Qualifications

• LLB, JD, or equivalent law degree.
• Must read/write Traditional Chinese.
• Strong understanding of Hong Kong legislation and statutory interpretation.
• Excellent legal research, analytical, and legal writing skills.
• High accuracy with editorial, proofreading, and QA skills.
• Experience interpreting legislative amendments and maintaining legislative publications.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with MS Office and legal research platforms.
• Willingness to work with AI-enabled editorial technologies.

Responsibilities

• Monitor Hong Kong legislation, bills, and related developments.
• Analyse legislative amendments and implement statutory updates across products.
• Prepare legislative histories, editor's notes, and citations.
• Develop roadmaps for amendments, repeals, and transitional provisions.
• Verify citations and legal references through research.
• Perform editorial reviews to ensure content accuracy and currency.
• Prepare new content for publication per editorial standards.
• Apply AI-assisted analysis and improve AI prompts and workflows.
• Deliver updates on schedules, priorities, and SLAs.
• Manage multiple legislative projects with quality and timeliness.
• Support content expansion and onboarding of new legislation.
• Contribute to product reviews and content improvements.
• Develop scalable editorial processes for wider coverage.
• Collaborate with editorial, tech, product, and operations teams.
• Engage external vendors and legal contributors as needed.
• Provide subject-matter expertise on Hong Kong legislation.
• Respond to customer feedback professionally.

Skills

Legal research

Legal writing

Editing

Analytical thinking

Communication

Stakeholder management

Editorial quality assurance

Multitasking / prioritization

Education

LLB

JD or equivalent law degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Legal research platforms

Job description

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.

The position will support the planned expansion of Hong Kong legislation coverage by managing increased content intake, maintaining existing legislative collections, and delivering timely legislative updates. Working closely with editorial, technology, product, and operations teams, the role also contributes to AI-enabled editorial workflows and continuous improvements that enhance scalability, quality, and operational efficiency.

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.
• 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.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people.

Working for you

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Life Assurance Policies: Providing financial security for your loved ones.
• Long Service Award: Recognition for your dedication and loyalty.
• Hybrid work arrangements: Balance work and personal life effectively.
• Access to Learning and Development Resources: Empowering your professional growth.

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

LexisNexis is a leading provider of comprehensive information and business solutions for professionals in a variety of market sectors - legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement and academic. A member of Reed Elsevier Group plc, LexisNexis helps customers achieve their goals in 100 countries through 13,000 employees dedicated to putting the Customer First. LexisNexis helps knowledge-driven organizations achieve new levels of excellence. LexisNexis combines advanced technology, global and local sources and convenient services to uniquely address specific customer needs. Working with customers, we develop innovative solutions to improve productivity, increase profitability and create growth.

LexisNexis is a leading provider of comprehensive information and business solutions for professionals in a variety of market sectors - legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement and academic. A member of Reed Elsevier Group plc, LexisNexis helps customers achieve their goals in 100 countries through 13,000 employees dedicated to putting the Customer First. LexisNexis helps knowledge-driven organizations achieve new levels of excellence. LexisNexis combines advanced technology, global and local sources and convenient services to uniquely address specific customer needs. Working with customers, we develop innovative solutions to improve productivity, increase profitability and create growth.

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