The candidate must have excellent attention to detail, grammar, comprehension, and editing skills, along with the ability to rewrite complicated text. Good communication and time-management skills are essential, while experience in publishing or information services, knowledge of the law, and proficiency in Adobe InDesign, Acrobat, Microsoft Word, CMS, and work-management tools would be advantageous.

The Junior Copy Editor will be responsible for editing and proofreading legal content, maintaining author information, applying house style, collaborating with teams, and meeting deadlines.

Media & Journalism

United Kingdom

London

Law Business Research (LBR) is a technology-enabled information services business powering the global legal industry with intelligence, analytics and performance data.

We are a fast-growing, innovative company with a dynamic and diverse culture, and we take great pride in delivering a world-class, cutting-edge service to our global clients.

By applying the latest technology to the fast-moving legal world, we enable our users to find their competitive edge and decide with confidence, armed with the insight they need. 

LBR delivers trusted intelligence and insight to users around the world through a range of tools and platforms that combine proprietary data and unique analysis. We make sense of complex, fast-changing information and enhance critical decision-making.

With an international team of over 500 experienced professionals, LBR has a proven track record of informing, engaging and connecting legal practitioners. Our specialist platforms help clients enhance their decision-making, manage legal risk and drive improved performance.

Law Business Research

<ul><li>An amazing market position, enviable growth, collaboration and wonderful people are just some of the reasons to further your career with Law Business Research. Our culture is shaped by our core values that promote equality, agility, and respect in everything we do.</li><li>Law Business Research has been shortlisted for the ‘Best Mental Wellbeing Initiative’ in the 2022 Great British Workplace Wellbeing Series. We take mental wellbeing very seriously and we remain committed to creating a positive workplace for all our employees.</li><li>We also take our place in this world of ours very seriously and engage in a wide variety of charitable and community based initiatives. We work extensively with Swawou School in Sierra Leone, which we established to provide education for 120 girls, and on an ongoing basis we underwrite the school’s costs.</li><li>We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that all candidates are given the same opportunity to succeed regardless of their sex, gender identity/expression or reassignment,&nbsp;sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age or disability.</li><li>We are looking for a&nbsp;Junior Copy-Editor&nbsp;with excellent attention to detail and knowledge of grammar, and who demonstrates a passion for good English. Working as part of a friendly copy-editing team, the successful candidate will copy-edit multi-author legal texts written by contributors from around the world. The successful candidate will also be responsible for handling authors’ corrections and proofreading a variety of publications. An ability to read technical text carefully and to revise it without harming the meaning is essential.</li></ul>

An amazing market position, enviable growth, collaboration and wonderful people are just some of the reasons to further your career with Law Business Research. Our culture is shaped by our core values that promote equality, agility, and respect in everything we do.Law Business Research has been shortlisted for the ‘Best Mental Wellbeing Initiative’ in the 2022 Great British Workplace Wellbeing Series. We take mental wellbeing very seriously and we remain committed to creating a positive workplace for all our employees.We also take our place in this world of ours very seriously and engage in a wide variety of charitable and community based initiatives. We work extensively with Swawou School in Sierra Leone, which we established to provide education for 120 girls, and on an ongoing basis we underwrite the school’s costs.We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that all candidates are given the same opportunity to succeed regardless of their sex, gender identity/expression or reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age or disability.We are looking for a Junior Copy-Editor with excellent attention to detail and knowledge of grammar, and who demonstrates a passion for good English. Working as part of a friendly copy-editing team, the successful candidate will copy-edit multi-author legal texts written by contributors from around the world. The successful candidate will also be responsible for handling authors’ corrections and proofreading a variety of publications. An ability to read technical text carefully and to revise it without harming the meaning is essential.

Junior Copy Editor

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Law Business Research

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