Are you passionate about legal research, legislative analysis, and ensuring the highest standards of legal content quality in an evolving digital environment?
Do you enjoy working with emerging technologies, including AI-enabled tools, while helping shape trusted legal content used by professionals around the world?
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.
About the Role
As a Legal Editor, you will play a key role in analysing legislation and legal developments, maintaining high-quality legal content, and ensuring accuracy across digital and print publications. You will collaborate with editorial, technology, and commercial teams while working with AI-enabled tools and workflows to support innovative legal publishing solutions.
Responsibilities
- Review and analyse legislation, regulations, court rules and related legal materials to identify content impacts.
- Draft, review and maintain editorial content, including editor’s notes, effective date notes, annotations and cross-references.
- Evaluate amendments, repeals, additions, delayed effective dates and other legislative changes and determine required updates to legal publications and databases.
- Conduct legal research to verify statutory history, citations, references and legal authorities, and develop legislative roadmaps and implementation plans.
- Actively work with AI-generated legal content by reviewing, validating and refining outputs to ensure legal accuracy, completeness and adherence to editorial standards.
- Conduct proof review and quality control across print and digital platforms and support updates to court rules and regulatory content.
- Collaborate with commercial partners, content editors and technology teams on new product development and content expansion initiatives.
- Address external customer questions and complaints and prepare professional customer-facing responses.
Requirements
- LLB or equivalent law degree required and attorney admission.
- Strong legal research, analytical, editing and writing skills.
- Interest in statutory law, legal publishing and the application of AI and emerging technologies in legal workflows.
- High attention to detail, commitment to quality and strong organisational skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, content management systems and comfort learning new tools, including AI-enabled platforms.
- Experience in legal publishing, legislative analysis or regulatory content management; experience with XML, structured content and digital publishing systems; and experience with proof review, publication workflows and print and digital production processes.
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
- LLB or equivalent law degree
- Attorney admission
- Strong legal research, analytical, editing, and writing skills
- Interest in statutory law, legal publishing, and AI or emerging technologies in legal workflows
- High attention to detail and commitment to quality
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
- Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and content management systems
- Comfort learning new tools, including AI-enabled platforms
- Experience in legal publishing, legislative analysis, or regulatory content management
- Experience with XML, structured content, and digital publishing systems
- Experience with proof review, publication workflows, and print and digital production processes
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.
