Legal Content Writer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Produce clear and original content or enhance AI-generated drafts into accurate, publication-ready pieces.

• Adhere to client branding guidelines, style preferences, and content brief specifications.

• Generate new content, update existing materials, and monitor progress in ongoing cases.

• Conduct self-reviews for clarity, coherence, accuracy, and grammar prior to submission.

• Integrate editorial feedback and revisions in a constructive and timely manner.

• Independently validate factual claims against statutes, case law, regulatory documents, and peer-reviewed journals.

• Accurately read and interpret statutes, case law, court documents, and regulatory language.

• Identify unverifiable claims and omit unverified information from drafts.

• Enhance understanding of assigned client practice areas through legal research.

• Assess source quality and select suitable sources for specific claims.

• Exercise professional judgment when faced with insufficient or conflicting information, escalating when necessary.

• Implement current SEO best practices to enhance the discoverability and utility of legal content.

• Comprehend how search engines and AI-driven search experiences evaluate, interpret, and present content.

• Use keywords in a strategic and natural manner.

• Organize content for web readability with clear headings, bullet points, appropriate sentence length, and paragraph breaks.

• Stay updated on SEO, AI-driven search, and content quality standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Candidates must reside in the United States and be authorized to work without sponsorship.

• Bachelor's degree in Journalism, English, Communications, Law, or a related field is required.

• A minimum of 3 years of professional writing experience, including significant experience in creating legal content.

• Proven ability to research complex legal topics independently using primary and authoritative sources, including statutes, regulations, case law, court filings, government publications, and medical or scientific literature.

• Strong understanding of legal terminology, concepts, and litigation processes.

• Capability to accurately interpret and synthesize complex legal and medical information without oversimplifying or introducing inaccuracies.

• Exceptional writing skills for producing clear, concise, and engaging content aimed at a non-legal audience.

• Strong editorial judgment and ability to identify unsupported, conflicting, outdated, or questionable information.

• Ability to critically assess AI-generated content and amend inaccuracies, unsupported claims, omissions, and weak reasoning.

• Skill in adapting writing for various clients, audiences, practice areas, and brand standards.

• Demonstrated ability to write effectively for the web, with knowledge of SEO principles and best practices.

• Excellent attention to detail, including grammatical, factual, attribution, and legal errors.

• Ability to manage multiple assignments and meet deadlines independently in a remote work environment.

• Capability to receive and implement editorial feedback.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Google Workspace.

• Preferred: Experience with mesothelioma, asbestos-related litigation, or mass tort litigation.

• Preferred: Familiarity with personal injury law practice and litigation processes.

• Preferred: Experience in editing content for law firm websites or legal marketing.

• Preferred: Experience with primary source verification and review of medical or scientific literature.

• Preferred: Familiarity with fact-checking tools and databases such as Nexis, case law databases, and medical journals.

• Preferred: Understanding of legal SEO best practices.

• Preferred: Background or coursework in law, legal studies, or paralegal studies.

• Preferred: Experience researching and writing about ongoing litigation or trial developments.

• Application must include two or three published legal writing samples, ideally in personal injury or mass tort, with citations or source notes where available.

🏝️ Benefits

• 401(k): Match 100% of employee contributions up to 4%.

• Unlimited Manager-Approved Paid Time Off.

• Health Insurance: Aetna PPO & EPO options (Subsidized $300 per month).

• Dental & Vision Insurance: Guardian.

• Company-provided MacBook.

• Fully Remote.