Knowledge Lawyer - Commercial
Would you like to play a key role in shaping market-leading legal content for commercial practitioners?
Are you motivated by delivering high-quality insight and guidance that helps legal professionals stay ahead of change?
About our Team
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (http://www.relx.com), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles (https://stories.relx.com/responsible-ai-principles/index.html).
About the Role
You will contribute to the creation and development of high-quality legal content within the Commercial practical guidance module, helping to ensure it remains accurate, relevant and commercially valuable. The role involves monitoring developments, engaging with customers, and collaborating across teams to deliver market-leading current awareness and guidance for legal practitioners.
Responsibilities
Assist with the creation, development, and maintenance of a market-leading content set for the Commercial practical guidance module to a high technical and editorial standard
Monitor developments, including anticipated upcoming changes, relevant to customers and internal teams
Work closely with Lexis+ Hub to produce high-quality current awareness, news, and analysis tailored to practitioners
Engage proactively with customers and market contacts to understand requirements and stay up to date with practice developments
Support customer queries via feedback channels or the LexisAsk service across relevant coverage areas
Collaborate with other Lexis+ practice areas and the wider business where relevant
Requirements
Qualified lawyer in England and Wales (solicitor, PSL, or barrister) with significant experience in commercial law and practice
Strong technical knowledge and practical application of relevant laws, issues, processes, and procedures
Ability to communicate complex legal and procedural concepts clearly, concisely, and in house style
Deep understanding of the legal market and in-house legal community, including practitioner needs and challenges
Experience drafting legal content, including substantive and procedural materials and updates on key developments
Excellent research, organisation, and planning skills with the ability to meet challenging objectives and deadlines
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 Pattern
Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
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.
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Skills Required
- Qualified lawyer in England and Wales (solicitor, PSL, or barrister) with significant experience in commercial law and practice
- Strong technical knowledge and practical application of relevant laws, issues, processes, and procedures
- Ability to communicate complex legal and procedural concepts clearly, concisely, and in house style
- Deep understanding of the legal market and in-house legal community, including practitioner needs and challenges
- Experience drafting legal content, including substantive and procedural materials and updates on key developments
- Excellent research, organisation, and planning skills with ability to meet challenging objectives and deadlines
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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