Attorney Editor/Content Manager Corporate and M&A RELX New York, NY

LexisNexis seeks a recently practicing M&A attorney with 5+ years of experience to help develop online legal products, tools, and solutions for attorneys. This is a full-time role with competitive benefits; remote work feasible. We are looking for a self-motivated attorney with concise writing skills who can work both collaboratively and independently. You are looking for an alternative legal career with opportunities to develop practice area expertise and to innovate in legal technology, a high-caliber team of experienced attorneys and professionals, and good work-life balance at a company that advances the rule of law and social responsibility.

Detailed Role Description:
The person in this role will help deliver a compelling and all-purpose practical guidance legal product across targeted markets as a member of a multi-disciplined team of content developers, product planners, external consultants, IT specialists, and marketing and sales representatives. This person will:

  • Develop, write and edit practical guidance on a variety of M&A topics and trends
  • Draft, review, and annotate forms and checklists
  • Monitor trends in M&A law
  • Recruit and manage external authors to ensure timely delivery of content
  • Make recommendations concerning overall content strategy and expansion
  • Assist in product design by applying subject matter and practice knowledge
  • Monitor competitiveness of the product offering
  • Support sales efforts via product demonstrations and contribute to sales and customer trainings
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

  • 5+ years of recent experience (preferably at an Am Law 100/200 firm) practicing mergers and acquisitions law
  • Significant experience drafting and negotiating merger agreements, purchase agreements, stockholders’ agreements, LLC agreements and other

documentation in connection with M&A transactions and related corporate

matters

  • Deep knowledge of M&A trends and workflow
  • Strong professional network of M&A attorneys
  • Excellent writing, editing, and research skills; strong practical writer;

experience drafting client alerts and/or composing and delivering CLE

presentations a plus

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Organized, self-motivated, and detail-oriented
  • Experience leading associate training programs a plus
  • Active bar membership in good standing.

 

About LexisNexis:

Rule of Law. Our mission and purpose as a business is to advance the rule of law around the world and this mission makes LexisNexis Legal & Professional a very special place to work. Everything we do as a commercial business from publishing content to introducing analytics and decision tools, helps strengthen legal infrastructures needed to advance the rule of law. Very few businesses in the world contribute to building peaceful, equitable, and prosperous societies in the way that LexisNexis does. We can and will effect positive change within our business together and advance the rule of law in support of those who need its protections most.

 

D&I and Racial Justice . Inclusion and Diversity are integral to enhancing our culture by attracting, developing, retaining, promoting and rewarding talent to drive our organization’s mission of advancing the rule of law around the world. We are committed to eliminating systemic racism in our legal systems and to being an advocate for Black lives. Together, we can make a real impact for each other, for our customers, and for our community.

 

LexisNexis, a division of RELX Group, is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. If a qualified individual with a disability or disabled veteran needs a reasonable accommodation to use or access our online system, that individual should please contact [email protected] or if you are based in the US you may also contact us on 1.855.833.5120.

LexisNexis, a division of RELX Group, is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. If a qualified individual with a disability or disabled veteran needs a reasonable accommodation to use or access our online system, that individual should please contact [email protected] or if you are based in the US you may also contact us on 1.855.833.5120.

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