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About our Team
LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading provider of legal data and information services. We specialise in delivering accurate, comprehensive, and timely legal content to professionals across various industries, including law firms, corporations, and government agencies. As a Legal Editor, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the integrity and quality of our legal data products.
About the Role
The Legal Editor (LE), Practical Guidance is responsible for processing and publishing content, assuring the integrity, utility and currency of content assigned to the position. This must be done in the context of strict adherence to the publishing schedule and compliance with standards, including editorial benchmarks and quality assurance measures. Close interaction with support staff and operations personnel is required to carry out the role effectively. The Editor is also responsible for assisting the team to meet the team’s overall portfolio responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Edit manuscript for content and organisation to ensure accuracy, currency, relevance, conformance, accessibility and timeliness.
- Perform original research as required.
- Ensure that developments in the law are monitored and flow through into content in a timely manner as agreed within departmental SLAs.
- Expert competency in technical aspects of online content publications, assumes the role of the default go-to experts for all editorial operation aspects associated with Practical Guidance platform.
- Work with team, colleagues and customers to develop and implement ongoing product development.
- Commission or develop updates to existing content in response to legal and regulatory changes
- Participate in product reviews and CDIs to gather market feedback on keeping the product value proposition relevant and fit-for-purpose
- Adhere to the publishing schedule and SLA; implement agreed plans for product enhancements.
- Obtain end-to-end view of workflow requirements to meet launch deliverables
- Key owner of all production roadmaps and trackers
- Regular reporting of project status, flagging necessary resourcing, costs or other risks and dependencies with the ability to pre-empt risks for early mitigation
- Work together with other cross-functional department as necessary to implement projects in agile manner
- Work with Global Technology Operations colleagues to ensure functional operation of editorial content management system, publishing back-end systems
- Support the sales and marketing teams with information relating to the product catalogue;
- Build effective relationships with colleagues, customers (internal and external) and management to ensure efficient execution of tasks and roadmaps;
- Work with team, colleagues and customers to develop and implement continuous process improvements to achieve best practice.
- Review and suggest improvements to workflow for improved efficiency/ turnaround metrics
Requirements
- Tertiary Education Qualification required, degree in Law preferred;
- Legal Research and analytical skills; knowledge of Malaysia and Singapore
- Solid working knowledge of Microsoft suites, business software
- Keen interest in AI
- Minimum 2-year experience in legal industry, practice experience advantageous
- High interest in publishing and editorial process
- Demonstrable track record in managing projects and deliverables
- High level of written and spoken English skills
- Technical competency XML-based or related content management systems an advantage but not a mus
- Working to tight deadlines, adherence to internal standards and metrics
- Excellent communication skills
- Project management abilities and problem-solving skills
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 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
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:
- Medical Inpatient and Outpatient Insurance: Coverage for your healthcare needs.
- Life Assurance Policies: Providing financial security for your loved ones.
- Modern Family Benefits: Support for maternity, paternity, and adoption needs.
- Long Service Award: Recognition for your dedication and loyalty.
- Access to Learning and Development Resources: Empowering your professional growth.
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.
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
- Tertiary education qualification
- Degree in Law
- Legal research and analytical skills
- Knowledge of Malaysian and Singaporean law
- Working knowledge of Microsoft suites and business software
- Interest in artificial intelligence
- At least two years of experience in the legal industry
- Interest in publishing and editorial processes
- Demonstrable experience managing projects and deliverables
- High-level written and spoken English skills
- XML-based or related content management system competency
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and adhere to internal standards and metrics
- Excellent communication skills
- Project management and problem-solving skills
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.
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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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