Client Development Partner - Legal
Help leading law firms embed trusted legal AI into daily practice
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Client Development Partner to join our team. Are you an experienced Relationship Manager, adept at driving growth and managing ongoing commercial relationships in the SaaS/Legal industry? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
This role is part of a global initiative creating ‘white glove’ post‑sale roles that go into top accounts to work lawyer‑to‑lawyer and drive use and adoption of LexisNexis Protégé and workflow solutions.
You will engage directly with lawyers, heads of department and practice area heads (rather than knowledge managers) to secure support and endorsement for Protégé adoption.
This is a permanent full-time role based either in Sydney or Melbourne with combined home/office-based arrangements to have flexible work-life balance.
Responsibilities
- Drive adoption of Protégé in top accounts by working lawyer‑to‑lawyer with senior legal stakeholders.
- Build trusted relationships with practice leaders and translate workflow priorities into practical AI-enabled solutions.
- Deliver high‑impact demos/presentations that show how Protégé improves legal work and outcomes.
- Partnering with Relationship Managers/Directors to research prospects and execute pursuit strategies that build senior-level relationships and create new business opportunities (pre-sales activities)
- Capture customer insights in CRM and feed learnings back to the business to shape engagement and recommendations.
Requirements
- Legally trained professional (lawyer background is required).
- 5 years’ experience as a practicing lawyer is preferred, with pre-sales and post-sales background
- Preferred: experience from large law firms or in‑house corporate legal; beneficial exposure to AI and cyber security practice areas.
- AI fluency.
- Executive presence; able to engage partners / firm leadership and deliver persuasive presentations/demos.
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
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:
- Discounted Health plan rate and Optical Assistance
- Life assurance and income protection
- Option to buy additional Annual Leave days
- Employee Assistance Program
- Flexible working arrangements
- Benefits for you and your family
- Access to learning and development resources
- Retail discounts and cashback offers
- Global discounts and free wellbeing & learning classes
- Electric Vehicle Novated Leasing
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.
To learn more about opportunities with LexisNexis/products or RELX Global, join us here:
https://www.lexisnexis.com.au/en
https://www.relx.com/careers/join-us
https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-au/products/protege
Ready to Apply?
If you’re a legally trained professional looking to apply your experience in a corporate environment while helping drive AI-enabled workflow adoption, we’d love to hear from you.
Thank you for your interest.
We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.
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Skills Required
- Legally trained professional (lawyer background)
- 5 years' experience as a practicing lawyer
- Pre-sales and post-sales background
- Experience from large law firms or in-house corporate legal
- Exposure to AI and cyber security practice areas
- AI fluency
- Executive presence; able to engage partners and firm leadership
- Ability to deliver persuasive presentations and demos
- Based in Sydney or Melbourne (permanent full-time role)
RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RELX and has not been reviewed or approved by RELX.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
RELX Insights
What We Do
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.
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