editor

About the company

At By Lawyers, we create practical, trusted legal resources that help lawyers work more efficiently and confidently. We?re looking for a knowledgeable and detail-oriented legal professional to develop and maintain our Canadian practice guides, with a focus on Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta.

By Lawyers exclusively integrates with LEAP Legal Software. As such, you will be working closely with various LEAP Canada teams.

By Lawyers publishes practical legal guides for lawyers in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Each guide pairs a commentary written for practitioners with a full suite of precedents, delivered through a matter plan. Our content is written by lawyers, for lawyers.

Your tasks

In this role, you?ll combine legal research, editorial writing and practical legal expertise to keep our content current, develop new guides from the ground up, and turn complex legal developments into clear, actionable guidance for practitioners. You?ll also engage with lawyers and law firms to demonstrate our products, respond to feedback and help shape the resources they rely on every day.

Working closely with our publication and quality teams, as well as colleagues in Canada, Australia, the UK and New Zealand, you?ll play an important role in delivering high-quality legal content that makes a real difference to legal practice.

Our Canadian guides cover Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta across real estate, family law, wills and estates, civil litigation, corporate law, and practice management, with the list growing. We are looking for a lawyer to take ownership of that content. A law clerk or paralegal with extensive experience will also be considered. This posting is based in our Toronto office for a new role being added to the Canadian team.

As a Legal Editor, you are responsible for the accuracy, currency and usability of By Lawyers guides. Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Keep the Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta guides current by monitoring legislative amendments, new case law, practice directions and form changes, and revising commentaries, precedents and matter plans as needed.
• Write new guides from the ground up: scope the matter type, draft the commentary and the precedent suite, and build the matter plan for publication.
• Research points of law and practice across our Canadian jurisdictions and turn them into clear, practical guidance that a busy practitioner can act on.
• Work to the By Lawyers house style and editorial process and take your work through review and publication with our publication and quality teams.
• Demonstrate By Lawyers products to lawyers and law firms, online and in person, as a credible subject matter expert.
• Respond to client questions and feedback.
• Collaborate with colleagues in Canada, Australia, the UK and New Zealand.

Requirements

• LL.B. or J.D. degree with active membership in good standing with a Canadian Law Society; Called to the Bar in Ontario or another Canadian common law jurisdiction; we will also consider experienced, licensed paralegals or law clerks in Ontario for this role
• Minimum of 3 years? experience as a practising lawyer, OR 7 years' as a paralegal or law clerk, in one or more practice areas
• Must be currently legally eligible to work in Canada without sponsorship
• Excellent

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We?re Hiring! Join By Lawyers as a Canadian Legal Content Editor

***Note this By Lawyers role will work out of our affiliated downtown Toronto office managed by LEAP Legal Software (Canada) Limited and the Canadian payroll and employment benefits will be managed by LEAP on behalf of By Lawyers. We work on a hybrid work model that requires a minimum of 3 days a week in office.