Are you a personal injury lawyer with experience practicing in Queensland looking for a change and keen to flex your writing skills? This could be the job for you.

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.

Job Purpose
The primary purpose of Legal Writer – Personal Injury QLD is to develop and maintain high quality up-to-date practical legal content as well as practical resources for our popular Practical Guidance product, which is Australia’s most established and trusted ‘how-to’ of legal practice.

It will also involve GTM (marketing and promotional) activities and provide support to relationship managers (sales) to help build brand awareness and influence market share across clients and stakeholders.

This is a Permanent role on a minimum 3 days per week basis. Some regular in-office time is preferable, but there is also the opportunity to work from home. We are open to any state within Australia given the candidate has strong practice experience in Personal Injury from QLD.

Responsibilities:

• Creation and maintenance of content including but not limited to; Guidance notes, including practice tips, Checklists, Precedents, Drafting notes, Legal updates, Toolkits

• Checking and ensuring quality of all content is legally correct

• Build and maintain strong working relationship with internal and external stakeholders

• Support Engagement Managers and customer relationship managers to understand customers’ needs and provide legal technical support in customer visits.

• Support local team in building cross-functional relationships to leverage best practice across global teams

Requirements:

• 3+ years PQE with a practice background in Personal Injury (QLD)

• Excellent communication and plain-English writing skills

• Aptitude for building and fostering relationships with a range of diverse clients and local and international stakeholders

• Excellent analytical, problem solving and organisational skills.

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.

Working for you

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Optical Assistance

• Life assurance and income protection

• Option to buy additional Annual Leave days

• Employee Assistance Program

• Referral Bonus

• Flexible working arrangements

• Benefits for you and your family

• Access to learning and development resources

What’s in this role for you?

• An excellent opportunity to work with one of the major providers in legal research and technology solutions

• Share in our global mission and contribute every day to the advance of the rule of law around the world

• Exciting and engaging long-term career path as an alternative to legal practice that remains engaged with the legal industry

• A supportive, collaborative and passionate team to work with and a corporate culture that invests in its people and prioritises wellbeing

• Flexible working conditions that promote a healthy work/life balance

• Training and upskilling provided for editorial and technical skills

• Exciting career and personal development opportunities

We are looking to fill this role as soon as possible – apply now to be considered.

Thank you for your interest.

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