Legal Content Specialist

RELX Group; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global information provider is seeking a Legal Content Specialist in London. This role requires expertise in legal research, strong collaboration with AI teams, and a passion for enhancing legal content with AI technologies. Ideal candidates will have at least 5 years of relevant experience and a law degree. The position offers flexible working options and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Health screening and private medical benefits

Wellbeing programs

Life assurance

Competitive contributory pension scheme

Employee discounts scheme

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in legal research or related positions in legal technology.
• Strong understanding of case law and legal content.
• Effective in documenting and presenting findings.

Responsibilities

• Curate, analyze, and structure legal content for AI readiness.
• Collaborate with product managers to identify content gaps.
• Conduct legal analysis to support AI-enhanced content.

Skills

Legal research

Collaboration with AI teams

Communication skills

Detail-oriented

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Law degree

Tools

AI technologies

Agile development tools

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and knowledgeable Legal Content Specialist to join our Global Editorial Operations Cases organisation. This individual contributor role will work directly with editorial, product, data scientists, and engineers on new and existing case law initiatives with an emphasis on Gen AI workflows. This role plays a crucial part in defining and executing projects that enhance our legal content offerings.

Responsibilities

• Play a pivotal role in curating, analyzing, and structuring legal content to ensure clarity, relevance, and AI-readiness across multiple jurisdictions.
• Collaborate with product managers to identify gaps in global primary law collections and define and prioritize the project backlog for new AI caselaw initiatives.
• Research, synthesize, and structure case law, statutes, and regulations to optimize content for advanced LLM (Large Language Model) applications, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and usability across digital platforms and global content sets.
• Conduct comprehensive legal and editorial analysis to support project development, ensure content accuracy, and the development of AI-enhanced content features, ensuring that results align with user intent and product strategy.
• Translate research findings and editorial insights into detailed user stories, structured data models, and content specifications that enable effective collaboration between editorial, AI, and engineering teams.
• Experiment with and evaluate AI tools for summarization, classification, enrichment, and quality improvement of legal content, providing feedback to guide product development.
• Troubleshoot complex customer and content challenges, leveraging AI-assisted analysis and expert judgment to improve user outcomes and satisfaction.
• Define and articulate requirements that translate into actionable user stories for the development team.
• Leverage editorial expertise to contribute to the creation and enhancement of legal content, ensuring high-quality output.
• Troubleshoot real‑life customer problems, providing expert insights and solutions to enhance user experience and satisfaction.
• Execute on prompt refinement and serve as legal subject‑matter experts when working with technical teams on prompt refinement.
• Review editorial output and conduct testing as it relates to new Gen AI workflows, model testing, and prompt refinement.
• Serve as a Gen AI leader by recommending new ways in which to embed Gen AI in primary law workflows.
• Work in other content verticals as needed as a legal subject‑matter expert to provide review and feedback.
• Contribute to the overall strategic direction of cases and primary law, particularly as it relates to Gen AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in legal research and editorial processes, with a strong understanding of caselaw and legal content.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across disciplines – particularly with AI engineers, data scientists, and product managers – to create intelligent, scalable legal content solutions.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to document and present findings effectively.
• Working knowledge of or interest in AI technologies, LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT, Co‑Pilot, Claude, Console, Gemini, etc.).
• Detail‑oriented and highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and experience in working within an agile development environment is a plus.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; law degree preferred.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in legal research, editorial roles, or related positions within the legal technology or publishing industry.

Company Information

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 prioritises using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case. 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 promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization, with various flexible and remote working options available to employees.

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Optional Dental Insurance
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work