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Bloomberg BNA seeks senior legal editor

Bloomberg BNA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bloomberg, and a leading source of legal, regulatory, and business information for professionals, seeks a Senior Legal Editor – Transactional to perform complex legal analysis and legal writing for assigned websites; helps the managing editor to determine and coordinate scope of coverage; and reviews and copy edits work of less experienced legal editors.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Employees perform most of the following, as assigned:

  • Leverage transactional experience to create and edit legal content for transactional legal practitioners, based on current law and deal experience.
  • Utilize knowledge of transactional practice to survey, manage and curate web-based legal resources, maximizing accessibility and usability.
  • Participate in and coordinate various aspects of production, including learning and applying proper tagging conventions as needed.
  • Maintain knowledge of corporate and transactional issues, financial news and developments and the state of legal practice.
  • Screen cases, legislation, regulations and other legal developments for relevance to transactional practitioners; analyze issues; edit, report, research, update and/or write legal content.
  • Coach less experienced editors.
  • Serve as a resource for others contributing to same or related content area.
  • Help coordinate coverage.
  • Assist managing editor with the identification and recruitment of potential outside author-attorneys.
  • Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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