Principal Legal Editor

The Principal Legal Editor works in a small team of legal editors based in Dubai to source, interpret, translate, analyze, classify, select, organize, manage and maintain regional legal content for publication on Westlaw International MENA. This content includes legislation, case law, legal journal articles, current awareness, secondary sources and related materials.

About the role

As Principle Legal Editor, you will:

• Act as primary resource for a team's work-products and processes
• Supervise daily workflow to meet product and quality standards, delivery dates and SLAs
• Seek direct and indirect customer feedback and incorporate that into the product
• Respond to queries from customers and customer-facing teams within SLAs
• Build, maintain strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including vendors and global operations centers
• Prepares production, administrative, cost reports and promptly escalates issues to line manager
• Review, classify and interpret legal information, including legislation and case law
• Review, edit legal information created by other employees, authors, freelancers
• Identify key legal issues in editorial materials
• Adhere to editorial publishing schedules and quality standards
• Consulta with multiple departments regarding the business aspects of online content as required
• Verify own work and that of colleagues and external contributors for accuracy, completeness, quality and ensures that the information is properly presented and organized
• Maintain and develop legal knowledge and skills training as required to complete work and stay current on legal trends and developments process (both wider feedback and self-evaluation)

• Law degree from an accredited law school and post-qualification experience
• Strong online legal research, writing, and analytical skills
• Strong Arabic and English language skills (essential)
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Strong, demonstrated understanding of regional MENA legal systems;
• Ability to track and understand developing legal areas of interest in legal trends.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, legal research platforms, and content management systems.

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.