About our Team At LexisNexis, we’re more than a legal and professional services company — we’re a team of thinkers, doers, and problem solvers. With 11,800 colleagues in over 150 countries, we’re using cutting-edge technology, including AI, to power real change in the legal and compliance industries. About the role The Legal Editor is responsible for ensuring the integrity, accuracy, utility, and currency of legal content across analytical/commentary publications, legislation products, and digital legal databases. The role combines legal analysis, editorial expertise, legislative monitoring, legal research, and AI-assisted content development to deliver high-quality legal content that meets customer needs while adhering to publishing schedules, editorial standards, and quality benchmarks. The position supports the full editorial lifecycle, from legal research and content development through publication, maintenance, and continuous product enhancement. It also works closely with technology, product, commercial, and operations teams to improve editorial processes, develop AI-enabled workflows, and expand legal content offerings. Responsibilities Editorial & Legal Content Management Develop, review, edit, and maintain legal commentary, analytical content, legislation, and related legal publications. Analyse legislative changes and implement statutory updates accurately across print and digital products. Draft and maintain editorial content including editor's notes, effective date notes, legislative histories, annotations, cross-references, and explanatory materials. Monitor legal developments, case law, legislation, court rules, and regulatory changes to ensure assigned products remain current. Perform legal research to verify legal authorities, citations, statutory history, and editorial accuracy. Conduct proofreading review and quality assurance across all publishing platforms. Prepare original legal content, research material, and analytical commentary where required. Legislative Analysis Analyse Bills, Acts, regulations, and legislative amendments. Prepare legislative roadmaps identifying amendments, repeals, commencement dates, transitional provisions, and downstream impacts on codified legislation. Assess the impact of legislative developments across multiple publications and legal databases. Maintain legislative cross-references and statutory relationships to ensure consistency and completeness. AI-Enabled Editorial Workflows Review, validate, edit, and improve AI-generated legal content. Apply legal and editorial expertise to ensure AI outputs are accurate, complete, and aligned with publishing standards. Identify opportunities to improve AI models, editorial workflows, prompts, and quality assurance processes. Collaborate with technology teams to support the integration of AI into editorial production. Project & Product Management Deliver assigned publications and updates in accordance with publishing schedules and commercial priorities. Manage multiple concurrent editorial projects while maintaining quality and timeliness. Support ongoing product development initiatives, digital content enhancements, and new legal publishing solutions. Participate in annual product reviews to evaluate content quality, customer value, and future development opportunities. Stakeholder & Relationship Management Manage relationships with authors, subject matter experts, freelancers, vendors, and external contributors. Coordinate manuscript delivery, editorial feedback, quality improvements, and publication timelines. Collaborate with editorial, technology, commercial, production, and operations teams to deliver high-quality legal content. Respond to customer queries and complaints, preparing clear, accurate, and professional responses where required. Continuous Improvement Identify opportunities to improve editorial processes, publishing workflows, and quality standards. Contribute to best practice development across legal publishing, legislation maintenance, and AI-assisted editorial operations. Stay informed on developments in legal publishing, legal technology, and AI to support continuous innovation. Experience & Requirements JD, LLB, or equivalent law degree. Strong legal research, analytical, and legal writing skills. Excellent editorial, proofreading, and attention to detail. Sound understanding of statutory interpretation, legislation, legal research, and legal publishing. Experience working with Microsoft Office applications and online legal research tools. Strong organisational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines. Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills. Preferred Experience in legal publishing, editorial, or legal practice. Experience maintaining legislation or analytical legal content. Familiarity with legal databases, citation standards, and publishing workflows. Experience working with AI-enabled editorial tools or legal technology platforms. Understanding of digital publishing, content management systems, and product development. Knowledge or understanding of XML will be an added advantage. Commercial awareness and customer-focused mindset. 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. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120. Criminals may pose as recruiters asking for money or personal information. We never request money or banking details from job applicants. Learn more about spotting and avoiding scams here. Please read our Candidate Privacy Policy. We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. USA Job Seekers: EEO Know Your Rights. RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions. Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.

Legal Editor.

more at Relx.

Systems Engineer III

Technical Customer Success Manager (Legal - JD Required)

Legal & Regulatory Content Lead, Japan

similar roles.

Finance Systems & Data Governance Business Partner (m/w/d)

Technical Lead (m/w/d) Finance

Assistant General Counsel, IP Strategy (Remote)

Assistant General Counsel, Commercial Alliances (Remote)

Corporate Counsel, Global Legal R&D

Senior Corporate Counsel, Global Legal R&D