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The UCC Digest at Boston College is hiring a manager.  This 12-month position will be one of two advisors, the other is a Faculty Advisor, to provide professional oversight for the UCC Digest, a professional publication. The UCC Digest's Manager partners with the Faculty Advisor in overseeing the Digest and ensuring the professional quality of the end product.   In addition, the Manager mentors and teaches the UCC student staff and runs the day-to-day operations of the UCC Digest. The Manager is necessary to provide professionalism, continuity, institutional memory, long-term stability, and direction.   

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

Writing, Editing, Reviewing and Teaching (70%)

• 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. The editorial process is a critical aspect of the Digest's educational function and the student experience. 
• 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

Management & Operations of the Digest (15%)

• 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.

Student Mentoring, Advising, Counseling (15%)

• 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

The Uniform Commercial Code ("UCC") governs mostaspects of commercial law. It states rules governing transactions involving thesale and lease of goods, negotiable instruments, bank collections, electronictransfers, and secured lending.

The UCC Reporter-Digest was created (over 60years ago) to give practitioners and courts an efficient, effective, and easyway to remain current on new, important case law developments. The Digest"annotates" all important UCC opinions. Each case annotation providesa concise, clear, accurate, and complete synthesis of the case from acommercial law perspective.
LexisNexis ("Lexis"),a global information and analytics company focused on legal research, publishesthe Digest for practitioners. End-users use the Digest in two ways.First, annotations offer an easy way to keep current. A reader can quickly readan annotation to get a working sense of a case. The reader does not need toread every page of an opinion, much of it irrelevantfrom a commercial law perspective. Second, readers use the Digest as aresearch tool. The reader can read an annotation to determine if he/she needsto read the whole case.

The Digest staff ranges from 28 to 30 students a year, usually equally divided between 2Ls and 3Ls. The students, under close advisor supervision, find and annotate 160 cases a year. The advisors manage, oversee, and supervise the yearly publication of 160 professional-grade annotations. The Digest provides excellent practical training. Students learn how to write efficiently, succinctly and effectively. They learn time-management, teamwork, and leadership skills. 
FTE Range 54,633 - 68,300 (12 Months)