04 Aug
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Elsevier
|
Gurugram
Legal Analyst
Job Summary
The Legal Analyst will lead the editorial development and maintenance of Indian legislative content for LexisNexis platforms. This role ensures accuracy, currency, and usability of statutory material, while embedding AI-first workflows to deliver cutting-edge, scalable solutions. The position combines deep legal expertise with editorial excellence to meet customer needs and advance the rule of law.
The GEO Legislation team is a global group dedicated to delivering accurate, timely, and AI-ready statutory and regulatory content across multiple jurisdictions, supporting LexisNexis transformation goals. Within this structure, the Indian editorial team plays a key role in acquiring, converting, and maintaining high-quality legislative material for India, ensuring compliance with our online-first approach and integration into advanced content platforms.
Responsibilities
Legislative Analysis
- Monitor Indian Central and State legislation, Bills, subordinate legislation, and related legal developments.
- Analyse legislative amendments and accurately implement statutory updates across digital legal products.
- Prepare and maintain legislative histories, editors notes, commencement information, effective date notes, cross-references, and statutory annotations.
- Develop legislative roadmaps identifying amendments, repeals, commencement provisions, savings, transitional provisions, and consequential legislative changes.
- Verify legislative citations, statutory history, and legal references through legal research.
- Conduct editorial review and quality assurance to ensure legislative content remains accurate, complete, and current.
- Support the expansion of Indian legislation collections by preparing new content for publication in accordance with editorial standards.
AI-Enabled Editorial Workflows
- Apply legal expertise to verify AI-assisted legislative analysis, metadata, summaries, and editorial outputs.
- Identify opportunities to improve AI prompts, workflows, editorial processes, and quality assurance practices.
- Collaborate with technology and product teams to support the adoption and continuous enhancement of AI-enabled editorial solutions.
Project & Product Management
- Deliver legislative updates in accordance with publishing schedules, editorial priorities, and service level expectations.
- Manage multiple concurrent legislative projects while maintaining quality, accuracy, and timeliness.
- Support content expansion initiatives, new legislation onboarding, and product enhancement activities.
- Participate in product reviews and content improvement initiatives to ensure legislative collections continue to meet customer needs.
- Contribute to scalable editorial processes that support increasing legislative coverage across India.
Stakeholder & Relationship Management
- Collaborate with editorial, product, technology, production, and operations teams to deliver high-quality legislative content.
- Work with external vendors, freelancers,
and legal contributors to support legislative publishing activities where required.
- Provide subject matter expertise on Indian legislation during cross-functional initiatives and product development projects.
- Respond to customer feedback and legislative content queries in a professional and timely manner.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve editorial standards, legislative maintenance processes, and publishing workflows.
- Contribute to the development of best practices for Indian legislation editorial operations.
- Stay informed of developments in Indian legislation, legal publishing, and legal technology to support continuous innovation.
- Support initiatives that improve automation, editorial efficiency, and content scalability.
Requirements
- LLB, JD, or equivalent law degree.
- Strong understanding of Indian legislation, statutory interpretation, and legislative research.
- Excellent legal research, analytical, and legal writing skills.
- High level of accuracy with strong editorial, proofreading, and quality assurance skills.
- Experience interpreting legislative amendments and maintaining legislative publications or legal databases.
- Familiarity with AI technologies, large language models, and prompt engineering.
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies and collaborative product development.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and XML; comfort with emerging technologies.
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📌 Legal Analyst (Gurugram)
🏢 Elsevier
📍 Gurugram