Join Caselex
Caselex is a networked operation calling for legal expertise and translations covering 31 European countries. Our aim is to maintain Europe's best network of legal experts, country correspondents and legal translators.
Legal Expert Group
Caselex seeks top notch legal experts/law firms to join its Legal Expert Group. Looking at the national experts who have joined the Legal Expert Group or expressed interest, they are: - regarded as leading national expertise within Caselex’ areas of law;
- deeply respected for their knowledge about EU law;
- highly motivated to support the Caselex venture.
- Strategic advice to Caselex on content and services
- Operational support on the national cases and the strategically important transposition of EU provisions into national provisions
Country Correspondents
Caselex is continuously reinforcing its network of Country Correspondents. Interested candidates should contact us.
Scope of work
The Country Correspondents of Caselex undertake the following tasks:'- Identifying and selecting relevant national case law of the relevant Supreme and High Courts next to the Court(s) of Appeal in the country agreed upon (hereafter the Courts) from year 2000 till date.
- Continuous monitoring of new case law of the Courts in order to select without delay relevant cases for the Caselex database
- Analysis of collected cases and subsequent authoring of headnotes, summaries and metadata based on the Caselex editorial guidelines. Do note that headnotes and summaries are typically around ½-1 A4 page in total.
- Support Caselex in mapping and maintaining how European Directives addressed in its cases have been transposed into national law of the respective country.
- Participate in editorial telephone conferences.
The focus will be on 14 commercial areas of law related to EU law, such as IP law, Competition law, Company law, Labour law, ICT law, Consumer Protection law, Public Procurement law.
Requirements
Any applicant should meet the following requirements:- Legal education with good understanding of national law (of the country you propose to cover) and its links with European law
- Language skills as native speaker of your country
- Fluent in English, mastering English legal terminology
- Systematic, analytical, timely and dedicated to the tasks which require the highest quality
Legal Translators
Caselex works with translations from 25 European source languages into 5 target languages, i.e. English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Both case digests and full text cases are translated, the latter on demand. Experienced legal translators should contact us
Contact us
Interested candidates should contact us or send their application together with CV to us by e-mail info@caselex.com