About the Team
Every day, LexisNexis produces and provides industry-leading legal content to more than five million professionals across 100 countries in the legal, corporate, government, accounting, academic and law enforcement markets. Today, with our cutting-edge, high-speed and easily accessible information solutions, you can be the difference that will uphold the law across borders as the world and technology evolves.
About the Role
The Cases Lead – Pacific is responsible for ensuring the operational delivery of case law content across the Pacific region meet LexisNexis standards for quality, timeliness, accuracy, and AI readiness.
The role serves as the regional point of contact for all case law-related operations, overseeing editorial workflows, monitoring operational performance, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders involved in case content creation.
This role contributes to the transformation of legal publishing into intelligent legal content delivery by ensuring legal materials are structured, enriched, searchable, analytically valuable, and aligned with evolving customer research behaviour and GenAI product capabilities.
Responsibilities
The Cases Lead is expected to:
- Lead operational delivery of case law editorial work across Pacific jurisdictions.
- Monitor editorial performance metrics, service levels, quality indicators, and delivery timelines.
- Ensure editorial quality, consistency, and compliance with LexisNexis publishing standards.
- Act as the primary regional contact for all case law-related operational matters.
- Manage relationships with courts, reporters, vendors, licensors, and external content providers.
- Lead operational projects, workflow improvements, and regional initiatives.
- Drive adoption of AI-enabled editorial practices and participate in experimentation with emerging technologies.
- Collaborate with Product, Technology, Data Science, Editorial, and Commercial teams to enhance legal content and customer experience.
Without this role:
- Editorial delivery across the Pacific region would lack consistent operational oversight.
- Quality, timeliness, and service level commitments could be compromised.
- External stakeholder relationships may not be effectively managed.
- Opportunities for workflow optimization and AI adoption could be delayed.
- Regional editorial operations would lack strategic coordination and governance.
Requirements
Education
· LLB or equivalent legal qualification required.
· Additional certification or exposure to legal technology, AI, publishing, or project management is advantageous.
Experience
· Experience in legal practice, legal publishing, legal research, or editorial operations preferred.
· Experience working with legal content, case law analysis, or legal information products.
· Exposure to digital publishing, legal technology, or AI-assisted workflows is advantageous.
Legal & Editorial Competencies
· Strong legal research and legal analytical skills.
· Strong understanding of case law developments and legal systems within AU and NZ jurisdictions.
· Superior reading comprehension and editorial judgment.
· Ability to identify legal trends, emerging issues, and customer research needs.
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
· High attention to detail and editorial accuracy.
Digital & AI Competencies
· Awareness of AI/GenAI developments in legal research and publishing.
· Understanding of AI-ready content principles, metadata quality, and structured legal content.
· Adaptability to evolving legal technology and AI-assisted editorial environments.
· Familiarity with legal research platforms, content management systems, and digital publishing tools.
Operational Competencies
· Good organizational and project management skills.
· Ability to manage competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
· Experience working collaboratively across functions and jurisdictions.
· Strong problem-solving and process improvement mindset.
· Competent in Agile or continuous improvement methodologies preferred.
LexisNexis Values & Leadership Essentials
· Passion for Winning – ability to achieve and deliver results;
· Boundarylessness – ability to work across multiple teams and departments;
· Innovation – ability to generate ideas for product/process improvements;
· Valuing Our People – shares knowledge and fosters talent within the team specifically and the business generally
· Collaborates and Partners to meet Customer Needs
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, Paid Parental leaves, Volunteering leaves, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
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.
If you're passionate about regulatory content and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we want to hear from you!
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