Legal Editor - AI Content Updating
Are you passionate about shaping the future of legal content through innovative AI-enabled publishing and editorial excellence?
Do you thrive on building trusted relationships with legal experts while driving content quality, commercial impact, and continuous improvement at scale?
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 (https://stories.relx.com/responsible-ai-principles/index.html).
About the Role
As a Legal Editor, AI Content Updating, you will lead the commissioning, development, and ongoing evolution of authoritative legal content across print and digital platforms. Working with expert legal authors and AI-enabled tools, you will help ensure legal content remains current, accurate, commercially relevant, and trusted by customers. This role combines editorial expertise, relationship management, commercial awareness, and technological fluency to shape how legal knowledge is created, maintained, and delivered at scale.
Responsibilities
- Commission and manage legal content portfolios across digital and print platforms, ensuring quality, timeliness, and alignment with strategic and commercial priorities, while optimising portfolios through AI-enabled lifecycle management.
- Recruit, onboard, and manage external authors and reviewers, setting clear expectations on scope, style, delivery, update cadence, and driving author adoption of AI-supported drafting and review models.
- Own the end-to-end commissioning lifecycle, including business case development, budgets, contracts, schedules, quality standards, and the realisation of agreed commercial and operational benefits.
- Plan and prioritise content development and updates by tracking legislative, regulatory, and case-law developments using AI-enabled tools to support horizon scanning, prioritisation, and impact assessment.
- Provide substantive editorial oversight of commissioned content, including editing and ongoing, AI-supported updating, setting clear standards and review frameworks to ensure legal accuracy, clarity, consistency, and usability across platforms.
- Use subject matter expertise to support design and testing of generative and agentic AI tools to support commissioning, research, updating, and maintenance...