Editorial Manager: Legal Analysis & Expert Content

Secretariat; Atlanta, Boston, Chicago (GA, MA, IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Secretariat in the United States seeks an Editorial Manager to turn complex analyses into clear client deliverables, working with expert teams across practice areas and coordinating with Marketing & Communications on content strategy.

You will edit expert reports, client alerts, and market-facing content, manage editorial scope and deadlines, and mentor colleagues to maintain technical accuracy and strong narrative voice.

Qualifications

• Significant experience editing complex analytical, technical, legal, or professional services content for demanding audiences.
• Excellent developmental and line editing skills, with the ability to improve arguments and prose while preserving the author’s expertise and intent.
• Confidence working directly with senior experts, handling sensitive materials, and delivering under client deadlines.
• Experience with expert reports, litigation or arbitration materials, consulting deliverables, or related work.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a billable editorial resource to cross-practice client teams, shaping and editing expert reports, analyses, presentations, and other client deliverables as engagement needs require.
• Improve structure, clarity, logic, tone, and readability while maintaining the accuracy, nuance, and independence of expert analysis and opinions.
• Edit and proofread client deliverables from early drafts through final review, helping teams resolve inconsistencies and prepare polished, quality materials for delivery.
• Collaborate with designers and data visualization specialists to make written and visual elements work together in polished deliverables when feasible.
• Work with experts and project leads to scope editorial effort around the assignment, audience, and review process; manage deadlines and revisions, and record time and project work in accordance with engagement requirements.
• Partner with subject-matter experts and Practice Marketing Managers to develop and edit articles, client alerts, research summaries, case studies, and other substantive content.
• Interview experts, develop outlines and drafts, and turn specialized analysis into authoritative, persuasive content without compromising the depth and technical nature of the content.
• Adapt content for different audiences and formats while retaining technical rigor and an appropriate expert voice.
• Support high-priority proposals, qualifications, and other business development materials when deep editorial expertise will improve the narrative.
• Collaborate with the Communications Manager on firmwide messaging, publication plans, and opportunities to extend expert insights through digital, social, and PR channels.

Skills

Editing complex content

Editorial expertise

Senior experts

Litigation materials

Job description

Secretariat in the United States seeks an Editorial Manager to turn complex analyses into clear client deliverables, working with expert teams across practice areas and coordinating with Marketing & Communications on content strategy.

You will edit expert reports, client alerts, and market-facing content, manage editorial scope and deadlines, and mentor colleagues to maintain technical accuracy and strong narrative voice.