Job Description

Are You a Legal Professional?
Do You have Legal Professional Experience?

About Our Team:
The Content team within Elsevier\xe2\x80\x99s legal department works on the legal dimensions of business and strategic issues relating to Journals, Books, and other content products and services. We collaborate with publishing teams to provide transactional support for a wide variety of contract negotiations, tools and templates for submission systems, and advise on publishing ethics and other legal and policy issues (such as Open Access and author rights questions)

About The Role
Provides legal advice in relation to publishing ethics issues, with a focus on risk management, dispute resolution, development of policies and best practices, development and delivery of training for internal colleagues.
Responsibilities:

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  Providing Publishing Ethics team with legal advice in assessing ethics-related allegations, including plagiarism, duplication, authorship disputes, peer review manipulation, and figure manipulation
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  Providing Publishing Ethics team and publishers with legal advice in relation to potential corrections, editor notes, expressions or concern and retraction notices, as well as disputes and litigation with authors, editors, third party publishers, and other stakeholders
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  Advising on journal society, author and editor contracts
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  Reviewing submitted content prior to publication in order to assess legal risk
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  Liaison with communications team, as appropriate
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  Advising on cases involving multiple journals, and networks of stakeholders
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  Communicating precisely and diplomatically with all stakeholders
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  Working with Publishing Ethics team to raise awareness and knowledge of ethical policies and procedures
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  Working with Publishing Ethics team to provide education to internal colleagues and to the scientific community
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  Suggesting and implementing additions or updates to ethical policies in response to new issues arising
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  Working with Legal colleagues on templates for journal author, editor and society contracts to ensure that these are up to date

Requirement

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  Full legal qualification
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  Two-three years\xe2\x80\x99 prior legal experience in a law firm or in-house, ideally including litigation and intellectual property experience
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  Ideally prior knowledge of academic publishing processes and/or industry best practices and guidelines
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  Strong sense of mature judgement
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  Ability to work independently (or with minimal guidance) and methodically, problem-solving
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  Ability to communicate and resolve complex legal and commercial issues clearly, calmly, and concisely in a way that is readily understandable and can be acted upon by the business.
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  Strong analytical, organizational and prioritization skills

Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that we offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you work in the day

Working with us
We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to help you succeed. Here, you will find an inclusive, agile, collaborative, innovative and fun environment, where everyone has a part to play. Regardless of the team you join, we promote a diverse environment with co-workers who are passionate about what they do, and how they do it.
Working for you
At Elsevier, we know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Long service awards
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts via Perks at Work

About Us
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world\xe2\x80\x99s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.
Join Us
Are you ready to help us progress science and health? Our technology leads to innovation, so join a forward-thinking digital business that is tackling world-scale challenges and align your ambitions with our passion for driving gloal.

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