Professional Support Lawyer - Tax

Professional Support Lawyer - Tax

About our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritises using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case.

What is Lexis+
Lexis+ is an online product that provides all the information lawyers need to practise effectively. It helps busy practitioners review maintained practical guidance, conduct legal research, keep up with what's happening in their practice area or track down a precedent with comprehensive drafting notes. The guidance materials are underpinned by authoritative commentary from market-leading brands like Tolley’s, Simon’s and De Voil. It is written by our in-house team of lawyers alongside contributors from the top 100 law firms.

About the Role
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced lawyer to join the Lexis+ team and contribute to the online practical guidance and current awareness offering of the Lexis+ Tax module. The primary objective is to deliver indispensable content that our customers love. To do that, you will need to keep your finger on the pulse of Tax legal developments, and engage with practising lawyers. 

Areas of interest:

• Tax aspects of M&A transactions, in particular share sales and tax-related documentation

• Real estate tax, including direct tax treatment of property ownership, SDLT, LBTT, LTT, property holding structures, CIS, ATED

• VAT, including VAT on property and contractual VAT provisions

Responsibilities:

• Creating, developing, and maintaining a market-leading content set for the Lexis+ Practical Guidance Tax module (practice notes, precedents, checklists, flowcharts)

• Contributing to the Lexis+ Practical Guidance Tax current awareness service by selecting appropriate developments and cases to report on and delivering updates and analysis targeted towards Tax practitioners

• Monitoring developments relevant to our customer base  

• Working closely with Lexis+ Hub to produce a market-leading current awareness offering

Requirements:

• UK qualified lawyer, with significant and broad experience of Tax law

• Excellent knowledge both technically and in the practical application of Tax work

• Awareness of the legal issues and developments affecting the Tax industry

• Ability to communicate complex legal and procedural concepts and their practical application concisely and clearly

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization, with various flexible and remote working options available to employees

Working with Us

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are strongly committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Working for you

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

• Save As You Earn share option scheme

• Travel Season ticket loan

• Electric Vehicle Scheme

• Optional Dental Insurance

• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave

• Employee Assistance Programme

• 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 scheme via Perks at Work

About the business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

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