Attorney Editor - Trusts and Estates

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Attorney Editor - Trusts and Estates
The candidate will handle project management of new titles, new editions and updates including meeting deadlines, creating and maintaining schedules, and overall responsibility for adhering to budgets. Will identify problems early and propose solutions and improvements that increase the efficiency of planning, creating, updating, maintaining, and curating content. Ensure quality of assigned publications meets or exceeds CEB standards by reviewing content, assessing quality, and identifying potential gaps in coverage. Assign, monitor and review legal editing projects of Legal Research Editor and provide feedback to Legal Research Editor and Content Development Manager as necessary. Assist in developing new, updated and repurposed content in assigned substantive area in collaboration with Content Development Manager and in setting strategies and setting direction for use of this content. Develop and maintain effective working relationships with contributors, including recruiting and developing a fresh and satisfied group of expert contributors who make positive contributions to new and updated CEB content. Perform legal research and analysis, which includes monitoring legal developments, and identifying, analyzing and evaluating new statutory, rule, case law, or other developments relevant to CEB content. Summarize and incorporate new developments into electronic manuscripts and Reporters as requested. Locate, identify, and update all legal authorities cited in CEB content; analyze cited authorities and discussion in manuscript; correct legal inaccuracies in the manuscript and errors in citation style; verify that all statements of law in manuscript have supporting authority. Edit legal content, rewriting and reorganizing as necessary. Incorporate legal research to emphasize practice-orientation and accessibility. Ensure legal accuracy and adequacy, clarity, completeness and timeliness of coverage of issues, including substantive and procedural legal discussion, practice strategies and tactics. Write original materials, including complex content, as needed. Edit and draft original forms and update forms to reflect developments when appropriate. Determine relevance, thoroughness, and practicality of original content and forms. Ensure that all content is written in a tone and style that follows CEB guidelines for the delivery format. When repurposing existing content, adapt tone and style as appropriate to meet CEB guidelines for all delivery formats. Analyze legal trends and customer needs and use that analysis to develop and assist in presentation of CEB programs in assigned substantive area. Must have J.D. degree and admitted to State Bar of California or other jurisdiction. Extensive knowledge of relevant substantive law area is required. Should have 2+ years of related law practice experience or 2+ years of legal editing experience in Trusts and Estates, Elder Law, Tax, or Probate Litigation. Should have excellent writing and editing skills; demonstrated command of the English language. Excellent legal research skills including the use of electronic online research tools, such as Westlaw and Lexis, and citation verification programs are needed. Excellent project management skills, including supervision of internal staff and resources and effective management of relations with contributors and co-workers are required. Must have highly effective communication and collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a team. Should have the ability to quickly digest new areas of the law in order to drive high level legal analysis. Should be proficient in standard personal computer applications, such as MS Office applications (Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel), Westlaw, Lexis, and cite checking programs; proficiency in SharePoint and Arbortext Editor desirable. Ability to analyze legal trends and customer needs and develop CEB programs which complement CEB publications is needed.

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