Legal Editor I

Reed Elsevier Shared Services (Philippines) Inc Company; Manila; On-site; PHP 500,000 - 700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

RELX’s CaseBase REPH Team delivers accurate legal content by annotating, digesting, and abstracting cases and journal articles for CaseBase platforms such as Legal Express and Australian Current Law Reporter. The team selects cases for LE and ensures high-quality publications.

Team members apply strong legal comprehension, research skills, and careful proofreading to maintain standards and integrate enterprise AI tools to support publishing workflows.

Qualifications

• JD required with strong legal content understanding.
• Excellent reading and legal comprehension, plus analytical and deductive reasoning.
• Proficient in MS Office applications for publishing and editing tasks.

Responsibilities

• Create annotations for cases and journal articles for CaseBase platforms (LE, ACL).
• Create digests for cases and journal articles for CaseBase platforms (LE, ACL).
• Create abstracts for LE cases across various topics and jurisdictions.
• Proofread content to ensure accuracy and compliance with house styles.

Skills

Legal analysis

Research skills

Analytical thinking

Deductive reasoning

Education

Juris Doctor degree

Tools

MS Word

MS PowerPoint

MS Excel

Job description

Job Summary

CaseBase REPH Team is responsible for delivering accurate and timely legal content for the CaseBase portfolio by creating annotations, digests, and abstracts for cases and journal articles, selecting cases for publication, and proofreading content to ensure quality and compliance with editorial standards across Legal Express (LE), Australian Current Law Reporter (ACL), and related CaseBase platforms.

Accountabilities

The CaseBase REPH Team is responsible for ensuring the timely delivery of accurate content to publications within the CaseBase portfolio.

• Creating annotations for cases and journal articles covering a variety of subject areas and jurisdictions, to be published in the CaseBase platforms, Legal Express (LE) and Australian Current Law Reporter (ACL)
• Creating digests for cases and journal articles covering a variety of subject areas and jurisdictions, to be published in the CaseBase platforms, LE and ACL
• Creating abstracts for LE cases covering a variety of subject areas and jurisdictions, to be published in the CaseBase platforms and LE
• Proofreading content to ensure its accuracy and compliance with house styles
• Selection of cases for inclusion in LE

Qualifications

• Must possess a Juris Doctor degree Strong commitment to performance and team success Sound level of computer literacy - Knowledgeable of Microsoft Office programs especially MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Excel
• Average reading, legal comprehension, analytical, quantitative, and deductive reasoning skills Possesses excellent analysis and research skills
• Demonstrate ability in the application of expert information to practical publishing environment
• Superior reading, legal comprehension, and proofreading skills Legal practice and/or legal industry experience Must be committed to complete process training and certification Ability to follow and apply a prescribed writing style. Team player with openness to feedback and learning. Ability to quickly learn and apply enterprise AI tools and technologies to support technical workflows and business objectives

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