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    Professional Support Lawyer - Cape Town, South Africa - LexisNexis

    LexisNexis
    LexisNexis Cape Town, South Africa

    2 days ago

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    Description

    Professional Support Lawyer

    Do you enjoy creating engaging and practical legal know-how?

    Are you looking for an exciting new role?

    About Us

    LexisNexis, a part of RELX, is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory, and business information. Our vision is to "Advance the practice of law and tax through market-leading information, technology and analytics solutions". We help customers increase productivity and improve decision-making and outcomes. Our 10,500 experts and our innovative tools help us shape a better world for our customers and communities.

    About the Role

    A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced regulatory/compliance attorney to join the LexisNexis practical guidance team on a fixed term contract.

    Reporting to the Head of the UK Lexis+ Risk & Compliance group, the successful candidate will focus on reviewing, drafting, developing and maintaining practical guidance content including guidance notes, templates and checklists. The ideal candidate must have substantial practical experience in regulatory/compliance law and practice, eg in in financial crime prevention or data protection/privacy.

    Responsibilities

    • Updating and drafting practical guidance on a range of regulatory and compliance issues;
    • Updating and drafting compliance templates, including checklists, policies, training materials and registers;
    • Keeping abreast of and analysing changes to applicable UK legislation and regulatory guidance;
    • Recognising changes that need to be made to templates and practical guidance documents;
    • Undertaking legal research on technical legal matters and drafting/updating templates in relation to aspects of law;
    • Developing essential knowledge resources which will improve the efficiency of the practitioners;
    • Stay abreast of legal and market developments, including monitoring of anticipated developments, relevant to our customer base.;
    • Collaborate with external authors regarding externally written guidance and templates.;
    • Work proactively and collaboratively with the other Practice Areas, especially those in the Corporate Crime, Financial Services and Information Law teams, and the wider business to enhance our practical guidance offering.
    • Support the development and implementation of initiatives to continuously improve the Risk & Compliance group's legal content.

    Requirements

    The candidate must be a self-starter, an analytical thinker and be able to take their own initiative. The role will require the candidate to draft and review template agreements, research points of law, stay abreast of legal developments, recognise when changes in law will impact on templates and draft appropriate amendments to templates.

    The candidate will be expected to work closely with other members of the UK Risk & Compliance team

    • An admitted Attorney with a strong academic record
    • Minimum of 5 years post qualification experience in regulatory law/compliance
    • Exceptional drafting skills
    • An ability to communicate complex legal and procedural concepts and their practical application concisely, clearly, and in accordance with set house tone and style—in writing and using graphics such as flowcharts
    • Excellent legal research, organisation and planning skills
    • Ability to work effectively independently and as part of a team, adopting a flexible, can-do attitude
    • A proactive approach, taking responsibility for continually developing and expanding areas of expertise, skills and knowledge
    • Strong attention to detail and a quality-oriented focus
    • Ability to think creatively, multi-task and work to strict deadlines
    • Willingness to engage with different forms of technology
    • Expertise and/or practical experience in financial crime prevention and/or data protection.

    Working with Us

    LexisNexis Legal & Professional is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. If a qualified individual with a disability or disabled veteran needs a reasonable accommodation to use or access our online system, that individual should please contact

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