Paralegal (Current Awareness / Lexisask)

RELX; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global provider of legal information is seeking a legal writer to contribute to the Lexis+ services. The role involves producing current awareness articles, answering legal queries, and liaising with legal experts. Candidates should have a degree in Law and excel in research and writing.

Benefits

Medical Aid

Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits

Study Leave

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Degree in Law or equivalent experience required.
• Strong research and writing skills are essential.
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Produce high-quality legal current awareness articles.
• Draft and edit legal news items and customer responses.
• Oversee and respond to legal queries effectively.

Skills

Research skills

Writing skills

Attention to detail

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

Degree in Law or equivalent experience

Job description

About Us

LexisNexis, a part of RELX, is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory, and business information. We help customers increase productivity and improve decision-making and outcomes. Our 10,500 experts and innovative tools help us shape a better world for our customers and communities.

About the Role

In this role, you will be helping to provide legal practical guidance and market insight by contributing to the smooth running of the current awareness and LexisAsk services. You will be helping to source news items and to write and review legal news articles to be published on Lexis+ UK for UK legal practitioners.

Responsibilities

• Tracking daily legal developments and producing high-quality current awareness articles and enhanced coverage of significant cases, particularly Supreme Court judgments.
• Overseeing the LexisAsk inbox, triage incoming legal queries, and assigning them to the appropriate Practice Area teams, ensuring adherence to internal procedures.
• Drafting, reviewing, and editing legal news items and customer responses, maintaining high editorial standards and ensuring clarity, accuracy, and alignment with house style.
• Sourcing, onboarding, and liaising with external legal authors and experts for contributions to news commentary, Q&A responses, and analysing content.
• Genericising complex legal questions and collaborating with internal and external subject matter experts to provide authoritative, well-researched answers.
• Applying internal taxonomy to all content to ensure consistency, discoverability, and alignment with content strategy.
• Contributing to the ongoing development and enhancement of the Current Awareness and LexisAsk services through process improvements and new content initiatives.
• Editing and adapting externally authored articles for internal publication, ensuring relevance and suitability for the Lexis+ UK audience.

Requirements

• Have a degree in Law, or equivalent experience
• Demonstrate an eye for detail and a quality oriented focus
• Be able to demonstrate excellent research and writing skills
• Have a good understanding of legal issues, procedures and content types
• Be able to think creatively, handle multiple tasks simultaneously and work to strict deadlines
• Be able to communicate influentially and effectively to a range of audiences, including senior stakeholders
• Be a natural, innovative problem solver, able to collaborate with your team to resolve issues
• Have an understanding of, and willingness to use, social media and new technology

Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. 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

Working Pattern

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

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.

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