Legal Editor

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Hiring Remotely in Malaysia
Remote
Mid level
Information Technology • Legal Tech • Analytics
The Role
Edit, validate, and structure case law and legal research materials for Southeast Asia. Monitor legal developments, ensure editorial accuracy and AI-readiness, collaborate with product and tech teams, manage editorial workflows and vendors, support AI-assisted tools, and recommend process and product improvements to enhance discoverability and legal research value.
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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 is responsible for ensuring the integrity, legal accuracy, currency, and AI-readiness of case law content and legal research materials across Southeast Asia jurisdictions. The role combines legal editorial expertise with digital content awareness, legal research intelligence, and operational collaboration to support LexisNexis legal technology products and AI-enabled research solutions. This role contributes to the transformation of legal publishing into intelligent legal content delivery by ensuring legal materials are structured, enriched, searchable, analytically valuable, and aligned with evolving customer research behavior and GenAI product capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Source, analyse, edit, and validate legal case law content and related materials.
  • Monitor legal developments, judicial trends, and emerging legal issues across SEA jurisdictions.
  • Ensure editorial accuracy, legal integrity, timeliness, and consistency of assigned products.
  • Conduct legal research and legal analysis to support content development and editorial decisions.
  • Contribute editorial insights that improve customer legal research experience and legal analytics value.
  • Ensure legal content is optimized for digital research platforms and AI-assisted legal solutions.
  • Support AI/GenAI readiness initiatives through structured content validation, metadata consistency, taxonomy alignment, and semantic enrichment practices.
  • Collaborate with technology and product teams on intelligent legal content initiatives.
  • Ensure legal content supports discoverability, citation accuracy, search relevance, and downstream AI usage.
  • Adapt editorial practices to evolving legal tech and AI-assisted workflows.
  • Participate in evaluation and testing of AI-assisted editorial and research tools.
  • Adhere to publication schedules and operational SLAs across multiple formats and jurisdictions.
  • Manage editorial workflows and coordinate with vendors, contributors, and operational stakeholders.
  • Prioritize competing deadlines while maintaining editorial quality standards.
  • Support strategic projects, workflow enhancements, and cross-functional initiatives.
  • Maintain accurate editorial tracking, documentation, and operational reporting.
  • Identify opportunities to improve editorial workflows, research processes, and operational efficiency.
  • Support automation, workflow modernization, and digital transformation initiatives.
  • Recommend process improvements that enhance scalability, quality, and turnaround time.
  • Contribute ideas for product innovation and enhanced customer research experience.
  • Support implementation of operational best practices and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Build strong working relationships with Editorial, Product, Technology, Commercial, and Operations teams.
  • Support customer-facing teams with legal content and product-related queries.
  • Manage relationships with authors, contributors, licensors, and vendors.
  • Collaborate across regional and global teams on editorial and strategic initiatives.
  • Participate in global operational and transformation projects where required.
  • Support product enhancements, content expansion, and editorial innovation initiatives.
  • Conduct competitor benchmarking and monitor legal publishing market trends.
  • Identify emerging customer needs and legal research trends impacting product strategy.
  • Contribute recommendations for new content, features, and legal research enhancements.

Qualifications:

  • LLB or equivalent legal qualification required.
  • Additional certification or exposure to legal technology, AI, publishing, or project management is advantageous.
  • Experience in legal practice, legal publishing, legal research, or editorial operations preferred.
  • Experience working with legal content, case law analysis, or legal information products.
  • Exposure to digital publishing, legal technology, or AI-assisted workflows is advantageous.
  • Strong legal research and legal analytical skills.
  • Strong understanding of case law developments and legal systems within SEA jurisdictions.
  • Superior reading comprehension and editorial judgment.
  • Ability to identify legal trends, emerging issues, and customer research needs.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • High attention to detail and editorial accuracy.
  • Awareness of AI/GenAI developments in legal research and publishing.
  • Understanding of AI-ready content principles, metadata quality, and structured legal content.
  • Adaptability to evolving legal technology and AI-assisted editorial environments.
  • Familiarity with legal research platforms, content management systems, and digital publishing tools.
  • Good organizational and project management skills.
  • Ability to manage competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • Experience working collaboratively across functions and jurisdictions.
  • Strong problem-solving and process improvement mindset.
  • Competent in Agile or continuous improvement methodologies preferred.
  • Proficient in English and Malay (written and spoken). Additional regional language capability is advantageous.

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.

  • Hybrid work arrangements
  • Career progression

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:

  • Life Assurance Policies: Providing financial security for your loved ones.
  • Long Service Award: Recognition for your dedication and loyalty.
  • Hybrid work arrangements: Balance work and personal life effectively.
  • 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

  • LLB or equivalent legal qualification
  • Proficient in English and Malay (written and spoken)
  • Strong legal research and legal analytical skills
  • Strong understanding of case law developments and legal systems within Southeast Asia jurisdictions
  • Superior reading comprehension and editorial judgment
  • High attention to detail and editorial accuracy
  • Familiarity with legal research platforms, content management systems, and digital publishing tools
  • Experience working with legal content, case law analysis, or legal information products
  • Good organizational and project management skills and ability to manage competing deadlines
  • Experience working collaboratively across functions and jurisdictions
  • Strong problem-solving and process improvement mindset
  • Experience in legal practice, legal publishing, legal research, or editorial operations
  • Awareness of AI/GenAI developments in legal research and AI-ready content principles (metadata, taxonomy, semantic enrichment)
  • Additional certification or exposure to legal technology, AI, publishing, or project management
  • Competent in Agile or continuous improvement methodologies
  • Additional regional language capability

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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The Company
HQ: London
10,001 Employees
Year Founded: 1880

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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