Overview

LexisNexis produces and provides industry-leading legal content to professionals across multiple markets worldwide. We offer cutting-edge, high-speed, easily accessible information solutions designed to support the legal, corporate, government, accounting, academic and law enforcement communities.

About the Role

The Cases Lead – Pacific is responsible for ensuring the operational delivery of case law content across the Pacific region meets 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 transforming legal publishing into intelligent legal content delivery by ensuring materials are structured, enriched, searchable, analytically valuable, and aligned with evolving customer research behavior and GenAI product capabilities.

Responsibilities

- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.

Values

- LexisNexis Values & Leadership Essentials: Passion for Winning; Boundarylessness; Innovation; Valuing Our People; Collaborates and Partners to meet Customer Needs.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance and support wellbeing initiatives. We offer a working workplace with flexibility and resources to help you meet your responsibilities and goals.

About the business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making, and advance the rule of law worldwide. As a digital pioneer, the company was among the first to bring legal and business information online with Lexis and Nexis services.

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📌 Editorial Cases Lead, Pacific (City of Sydney)
🏢 LexisNexis
📍 City of Sydney