Paralegal - Finance

RELX INC; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 106,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, part of RELX, seeks a fixed-term 12-month role in South Africa to provide practical legal guidance and market insight. You will review content, conduct research, craft guidance, and maintain trackers, collaborating with legal experts and cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes quality, accuracy, and timely delivery, with a focus on finance-related law and diverse audiences across platforms.

Qualifications

• Have a degree in Law, or equivalent experience.
• Experience and/or interest in Finance law preferable.
• Comfortable working shift hours Monday-Friday, 10 AM-6 PM (June-Oct) and 11 AM-7 PM (Nov-March), SAST.
• 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 and work to deadlines.
• Communicate effectively to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing new and existing content for quality and legal accuracy.
• Monitoring developments and inputting information to trackers.
• Drafting practical guidance content (FAQs, practice notes, precedents).
• Conducting legal research and liaising with subject matter experts.
• Support initiatives to grow and improve the Lexis+ offering.

Skills

Legal research

Legal writing

Attention to detail

Communication

multitasking

Project coordination

Education

Law degree

Job description

Johannesburg

Cape Town

Durban_SA

Full time

R117856

Are you passionate about legal research and delivering practical guidance that helps professionals make informed decisions?

Would you like to contribute to innovative legal content and solutions while working with experts across the legal and regulatory landscape?

About our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (http://www.relx.com), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles.

About the Role

In this role, you will be helping to provide legal practical guidance and market insight. You will be reviewing documents, undertaking legal research, drafting content and maintaining trackers. This is a 12-month fixed term role.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing new and existing content for quality and legal accuracy, and making recommendations for process improvements

• Monitoring of developments and inputting information to maintain trackers of consultations, cases and dates

• Drafting practical guidance content (eg FAQs, practice notes, precedents, trackers, checklists, etc)

• Conducting legal research and liaising with subject matter experts within the Practical Guidance practice area teams

• Supporting the development and implementation of initiatives to grow and improve the Lexis+ offering

Requirements

• Have a degree in Law, or equivalent experience

• Experience and/or interest in Finance law (including Banking & Finance, Insolvency, Insurance and Financial Services) preferable

• Comfortable working shift hours Monday-Friday, 10 AM-6 PM (June-Oct) and 11 AM-7 PM (Nov-March), SAST

• 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

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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RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.

Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.

Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.