Paralegal

LexisNexis South Africa Shared Services (Pty) Ltd Company; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 450 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal services provider in Cape Town is looking for a Paralegal. The role involves supporting Scottish legal guidance, managing content accuracy, and monitoring legal developments. Ideal candidates will have a legal qualification or paralegal experience, with strong attention to detail and legal editorial skills. The position offers a range of benefits including medical aid and retirement plans.

Benefits

Medical Aid

Retirement Plan

Modern family benefits

Study Leave

Qualifications

• Have impeccable attention to detail and ability to manage large volumes of documents.
• Have experience in legal editorial work, XML QA, and toolkit maintenance.
• Be able to monitor and synthesise legal news and developments.

Responsibilities

• Oversee legal maintenance reviews for Scottish guidance documents.
• Review new and updated content for accuracy and completeness.
• Monitor Scottish legal news sources and draft news items.

Skills

Attention to detail

Legal editorial work

Communication skills

Collaboration skills

Monitoring legal news

Education

Legal qualification or paralegal experience

Tools

Lexis+

Job description

About the Role

About the Role — As a Paralegal you will provide specialist support for LexisPSL’s Scottish practical guidance, focusing on the priority practice areas (PPAs) Property, Dispute Resolution, Corporate Crime, Restructuring & Insolvency (R&I), and Private Client. You will relieve PSLs of routine maintenance and administrative tasks, enabling them to focus on content development and strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing annual and ongoing legal maintenance reviews for Scottish guidance documents, ensuring they are current and compliant, and perform XML quality assurance on all content items.
• Reviewing new and updated content for accuracy and completeness, handle PSL (Professional Support Lawyer) requests, and coordinate with PSLs and external experts for validation and publication.
• Monitoring Scottish legal news sources daily, draft and publish news items, and maintain trackers for news analysis and journals.
• Circulating Scottish case digests, ensure proper treatment of cases, and verify that cited pre-devolution legislation is available for research.
• Maintaining and enhancing the Scotland Collection, conducting quarterly audits to ensure all content is properly linked and indexed.
• Managing commissioning tasks by identifying and supporting authors, tracking progress, and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality content.
• Assisting with administrative tasks, metrics reporting, and support the organization of internal meetings and panel sessions.
• Continuously seek improvements and efficiencies in content and processes, adapt content from other jurisdictions where possible, and support scalable drafting through AI and precedent development.

Requirements

• Have a Legal qualification or paralegal experience, ideally with exposure to Scots law (Scottish law graduate preferred but not essential).
• Have impeccable attention to detail and ability to manage large volumes of documents and trackers.
• Have experience in legal editorial work, XML QA, and toolkit maintenance.
• Be able to monitor and synthesise legal news and developments from multiple sources.
• Have excellent communication and collaboration skills for working with PSLs, authors, and external experts.
• Be familiar with Lexis+ and related legal research platforms is desirable.

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. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working for you

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

• Medical Aid
• Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
• Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
• Study Leave