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Roles

  • Community Manager
    • Responsible for engaging with consumers and participants
    • Respond to comments and questions from consumers and participants, working in conjunction with the issue triage editor
    • Principal contributor to LexPublica blog
    • Contribute to creation of community content
  • Community Scribe
    • Write explanatory materials about LexPublica and the community, for example FAQs
  • Editorial Board
    • Manage content-creation process, standards and roles
    • Set priorities for content creation
    • Consists of all Managing Editors (and potentially other members)
  • Expert Reviewer
    • Engaged as needed by the managing editor and the senior editor
    • Contribute specialized legal expertise on a specific contract template or a specific legal issue within a template
  • Issue Triage Editor
    • Triage comments and questions from consumers and participants, working in conjunction with the issue triage editor
    • Unpack and re-write comments and questions as needed
    • Enter and assign issues in issue management system
    • Follow up on issues
    • Contribute to creation of community content
  • Legal Drafter
    • Responsible for drafting specific contract templates, in accordance with the drafting instructions and the LexPublica Style Guide
    • Revise draft template, following feedback during Review
    • Contribute to creation of blueprint and drafting instructions
  • Managing Editor
    • Responsible for overseeing creation of a family of agreements and related materials
    • Primary responsibility for creating the blueprint, with help from senior editors, researchers and other participants
    • With senior editor, responsible for finding expert reviewers as needed
    • Final responsibility for approving agreement templates for release
    • Provide leadership, guidance and coordination for team of participants working on a family of agreements
    • Provide legal expertise for family of agreements
  • Managing Editor, Style Guide
    • Responsible for overseeing work on the Style Guide.
  • Ombuds

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  • Researcher
    • Researchers may conduct research and contribute in a variety of ways:
      • Sample agreements:
        • Finding sample agreements
        • Studying and parsing them
      • Legal research:
        • Research legislation and case law on specific legal topics
        • Analyse law on specific legal topics
      • Contribute to creation of Blueprints and Drafting Instructions
      • Contribute to creation and maintenance of the LexPublica Style Guide
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