Legal Workflow Specialist

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Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZAF
In-Office
Mid level
Information Technology • Legal Tech • Professional Services • Analytics • Business Intelligence
The Role
Support South African law firms and legal teams by designing and delivering AI-enabled onboarding, training, and tailored workflows. Drive product adoption, monitor usage, demonstrate ROI, configure client-aligned workflows, share best practices, and relay customer feedback to product and development teams. Assist testing and usability of new features.
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About the Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, 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 creators for each individual legal use case.

About the Role

We are seeking a Legally Trained Workflow Specialist to join our Customer Success team, supporting South African law firms, corporate legal departments, and public‑sector legal teams in modernising their processes through AI‑enabled workflows and legal information tools.

Responsibilities

Client Onboarding and Training

  • Design and deliver onboarding tailored to South African firms, practice groups, and in‑house legal teams.

  • Lead interactive training sessions that demonstrate AI‑enabled workflows across research, drafting, review, and knowledge management

  • Create clear, practical training materials, including guides and short videos.

  • Engaging in-house legal teams to understand their daily workflows and creating tailored LexisNexis AI solutions (e.g., Protégé Workflows) to enhance existing processes, improve outcomes, and increase productivity and ROI.

Adoption and Value Realisation

  • Monitor product usage across SA clients and drive increased utilisation, particularly in high‑volume corporate, regulatory, and litigation practices.

  • Identify adoption obstacles specific to SA legal environments

  • Demonstrate measurable client value, including efficiency gains, quality improvements, risk reduction and consistency.

  • Work with customers to understand existing processes and design improved, AI‑supported workflows.

  • Configure workflows to align with client preferences, practice‑area needs, and organisational standards.

  • Share proven approaches and best practices to support learning across the customer base.

Product Feedback and Cross‑Functional Collaboration

  • Represent customer perspectives internally, translating feedback into clear, practical insights.

  • Partner with product and development teams to inform future improvements.

  • Support testing of new features, focusing on usability, accuracy, and real‑world application.

Requirements

  • Admitted Attorney (LLB required; articles completed).

  • 2–5+ years post‑admission

  • Exposure to complex legal workflows—corporate, commercial, litigation, regulatory or similar.( advantageous)

  • Confidence communicating with a range of stakeholders and delivering clear, engaging presentations or training

  • Ability to “translate” legal workflows into repeatable, technology‑enabled processes.

  • An interest in legal technology and curiosity about how AI can support better legal outcomes

  • Excellent relationship‑building, active listening and stakeholder‑management skills.

  • Data‑driven mindset with the ability to articulate value and ROI.

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, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working for You

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
- Medical Aid
- Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
- Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
- Study Leave

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

  • Admitted Attorney (LLB required; articles completed)
  • 2-5+ years post-admission
  • Exposure to complex legal workflows (corporate, commercial, litigation, regulatory or similar)
  • Confidence communicating with a range of stakeholders and delivering training/presentations
  • Ability to translate legal workflows into repeatable, technology-enabled processes
  • Interest in legal technology and curiosity about how AI can support legal outcomes
  • Excellent relationship-building, active listening and stakeholder-management skills
  • Data-driven mindset with ability to articulate value and ROI

LexisNexis Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about LexisNexis and has not been reviewed or approved by LexisNexis.

  • Healthcare Strength Healthcare options are often described as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, and vision coverage alongside life and disability protection. Wellbeing programming such as wellness initiatives and fitness support is also positioned as part of the overall package.
  • Retirement Support Retirement benefits are repeatedly framed as a meaningful component of total rewards through 401(k) matching and access to stock purchase opportunities. Performance bonuses and charitable matching are also included as financial-support features within the broader rewards mix.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time-off offerings are portrayed as broad, including PTO, paid holidays, sick leave, and paid volunteer time. Flexible work arrangements, including remote options and flexible hours, further strengthen the overall rewards experience.

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The Company
HQ: Alpharetta, GA
10,001 Employees
Year Founded: 1970

What We Do

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. We help lawyers win cases, manage their work more efficiently, serve their clients better and grow their practices. We assist corporations in better understanding their markets, monitoring their brands and competition, and in mitigating business risk. We collaborate with universities to educate students, and we support nation-building with governments and courts by making laws accessible and strengthening legal infrastructures. We partner with leading global associations and customers to collect evidence against war criminals and provide tools to combat human trafficking. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 130 countries with 10,000 employees worldwide, is part of RELX Group, a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.

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