Found this page on the Lexis Nexis website – it’s amazing that they’ll give another 30K to a lawyer or legal; acadaemic rather than use that money to start training a proper legal editor or publisher who could give them a raft of titles or concepts to take the business into the next decade
Here’s the page url?? http://www.lexisnexis.com.au/en-au/publishing-opportunities.page
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Instead of searching for “thought leaders”? whatever they may be we suggest …. develop your own IP in house.
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Giving a cash prize to a lawyer or academic is in our book a complete waste of time. Why not start training editors and publishers again? and have people inhouse who have more great ideas than LN could actually publish .
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We suggest then that these individuals could be outsourced to the legal industry? to help firms, agencies etc etc make their legal based publications better
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Instead LN will hand over 30K to a “winner” take all the publishing rights from that author / innovator and thus piss off yet another individual their colleagues and maybe even the firm or institution they work for.
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Is this really long term planning?
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This is what they say…
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Publishing Opportunities with LexisNexis
LexisNexis is Australia?s leading legal publisher, providing information, services and technology to professionals around the world. LexisNexis authors are acknowledged experts in their fields, chosen for their commitment to advancing the law by sharing their insight and analysis.
Opportunities are available to become a member of the dedicated author team working on the profession?s most trusted publications. Grow your reputation as an expert by contributing to well known and respected titles, or shape the way the law develops by shining a spotlight on an emerging practice area with a new work.
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Practitioner Works
The law is dynamic and the needs of the legal profession are always evolving. At LexisNexis we know that we must not only cater for the profession today but innovate to meet the demands of tomorrow. That?s why even though our expert authors ensure LexisNexis publications keep pace with today?s developments, we continue to search for tomorrow?s thought leaders.
If you have ideas for new publications to tackle changes in an existing practice area or to explore new fields, we want to hear from you. Please email the Content Development Team with a completed LexisNexis Author Questionnaire containing details of your proposal. For a limited time you may win $30,000 for submitting a proposal for a new book: for details see http://www.lexisnexis100.com.au/bookaward.
