Jobs in Johannesburg, gauteng

About the Role

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced Environment Law teamattorney to join the LexisNexis practical guidance team on a fixed term contract.

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, e.g. 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 analyzing changes to applicable UK legislation and regulatory guidance.
• Recognizing 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 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, recognize when changes inEnvironmental 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 Environment team.

Working with Us

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