RELX is hiring : Legal Editor, Practice Area Content in Philadelphia

Would you like to shape the future of legal analysis by combining expert insight with cutting-edge AI tools?

Interested in applying your legal expertise, editorial precision, and collaborative skills to enhance and expand legal content?

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 model creators for each individual legal use case.

About the Role

We're looking for a highly collaborative and detail-oriented US Legal Editor to join the Global Analytical Editorial Operations team. In this role you will curate, enhance, and expand authoritative US legal analysis by partnering with expert authors and leveraging AI-enabled editorial tools. You'll combine sharp legal insight with strong project and relationship management skills to ensure that our products deliver comprehensive and timely guidance to our customers.

Responsibilities

Author & Contributor Relationships

Recruit, onboard, and support external authors; set clear expectations for scope, style, and delivery.

Maintain productive long-term relationships, intervening early to resolve performance issues or revise author mix as needed; manage contributor contracts within approved budgets.

Domain Expertise and & Content Planning

Track legislative, regulatory, and case-law developments to keep content current, understand emerging trends, and identify white-space opportunities for new content.

Manage portfolio delivery plans, collaborating with Content Operations to balance quality, speed, and cost.

Editorial & Product Management

Provide substantive and structural updates and / or edits, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and cross-platform functionality.

Partner with Product Managers / Content Strategy / Segment to ensure alignment with market needs; monitor customer feedback and analytics.

Act as content expert for assigned practice areas, supplying requirements for customer-facing features and workflow improvements.

Market & Customer Engagement

Support Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success with subject-matter expertise to enhance marketing collateral.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

Leverage generative and agentic AI, automation, and data to support streamlining of content development and editorial processes.

Contribute to cross-functional initiatives such as new product pilots, tool evaluations, and standards development; highlight best practices to peers.

Requirements

Education - J.D. required

Experience - 1-5 years of legal practice or comparable legal publishing experience; familiarity with federal law, medical malpractice or personal injury law highly preferred, along with a desire to develop expertise in other practice areas

Editorial Excellence - Demonstrated ability to scope requirements for new legal content; edit complex legal analysis for clarity, consistency, and voice

Tech Fluency - Comfortable using LLMs for legal research; skilled at crafting prompts, evaluating outputs, and iterating for optimal results

Commercial Mindset - Ability to interpret market signals, customer feedback, and data to inform content initiatives and drive sustainable growth

Communication & Adaptability - Clear, positive communicator who thrives on collaborating with stakeholders and partners; delivers on commitments, pivots quickly as needed and views setbacks as learning opportunities

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work / life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, and study assistance, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.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 :

Health Benefits : Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits

Retirement Benefits : 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan

Wellbeing : Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs

Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity

Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits

Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts

Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

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.

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