Manager, UCC Digest

Boston College • Newton, MA

22h

About The Position

The UCC Digest at Boston College is seeking a Manager for a 10-month position. This role serves as one of two advisors, partnering with a Faculty Advisor, to provide professional oversight for the UCC Digest, a professional publication. The Manager is responsible for ensuring the professional quality of the end product, mentoring and teaching the UCC student staff, and running the day-to-day operations. This position is crucial for providing professionalism, continuity, institutional memory, long-term stability, and direction for the Digest. The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) governs most aspects of commercial law, and the UCC Reporter-Digest was created over 60 years ago to help practitioners and courts stay current on new, important case law developments by annotating significant UCC opinions. LexisNexis, a global information and analytics company, publishes the Digest. The Digest staff consists of 28 to 30 students (2Ls and 3Ls) annually, who, under close advisor supervision, find and annotate 160 cases a year. The role provides students with practical training in efficient, succinct, and effective writing, as well as time-management, teamwork, and leadership skills.

Requirements

• JD from an ABA accredited law school
• 3-5 years of legal experience
• Practical experience
• Demonstrated excellence in writing and a commitment to teaching and mentoring
• Demonstrated ability to write in a succinct, clear, well-organized way
• Desire to teach, mentor, and serve as a role model in terms of professionalism, work ethic, timeliness, organizational skills, and time management
• Excellent people skills, excellent time-management skills, curiosity, humility, and adaptability
• Ability to have difficult conversations when a difficult conversation is necessary

Nice To Haves

• Post-JD experience that involved writing for a legal audience preferred – e.g., clerking for a judge or transactional experience that involved research and writing
• Preference for knowledge of the UCC and/or related legal spheres (e.g., bankruptcy, secured lending)

Responsibilities

• Researching various UCC cases to select the more novel cases to annotate
• Assign cases to 2L writers to annotate in cooperation with and under the supervision of a 3L editor
• Read each case that the students have annotated and provide edits for substance, accuracy, completeness, organization, flow, sentence structure, grammar, style, and Digest formatting
• Conduct a "final review" of all annotated cases to ensure appropriate standard is met
• If necessary, restructure and rewrite the annotation to ensure its professional quality for the publication version
• Ensure students learn from comparing and contrasting their student-level drafting to professional-grade drafting
• Ensure students learn what is of interest to practitioners and academics and what is not
• Frequent meetings with the 3L leadership
• Oversee, plan, and ensure the Digest produces four releases a year and each release consist of 40 annotations
• Serve as the contact person for Lexis
• Oversee and manage the Digest's budget in partnership with the Student Treasurer
• Guide, mentor, and manage the staff
• Overseeing the 3L editors who are performing the work
• Lead the training and acculturate each incoming class of 2Ls
• Oversee and maintain Digest traditions, such as the 1L Exam Survival Kits project
• Oversee a biannual newsletter to Digest alums
• Mentor students on non-Digest issues in support of the student
• Help 3Ls develop leadership skills and counsel students
• Implement and oversee processes relating to the resolution of conflicts, receipt of complaints, and the exercise of disciplinary action, up to and including probation and expulsion from the Digest
• Meet with students to discuss cases to discuss an edited annotation, performance-related issues or concerns

Benefits

• Tuition remission for Employees
• Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements
• Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Low-Cost Life Insurance
• Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans
• Paid Holidays Annually
• Generous Sick and Vacation Pay

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees