Technical Editor

RELX Group; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global legal information provider in the UK seeks an experienced case law editor to enhance the quality of legal content. The role involves writing and reviewing UK Law Reports headnotes, monitoring legal accuracy, and contributing to AI-assisted editorial projects. Ideal candidates possess a law degree, strong editorial judgement, and a meticulous eye for detail, alongside experience in legal publishing. Flexible and remote working options are available.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Health screening and private medical benefits

Wellbeing programs

Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme

Optional Dental Insurance

Qualifications

• Experience in legal publishing, case summarisation, or editorial roles.
• Exceptional written English and editorial precision.
• Familiarity with LLM providers and prompt engineering desirable.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality headnotes ensuring legal accuracy and adherence to style.
• Revise and quality-assure headnotes prepared by others.
• Monitor and flag issues that may impact reportability.
• Contribute to case selection aligning with editorial criteria.
• Review GenAI case summaries to agreed timelines.

Skills

Legal publishing experience

Editorial precision

Collaboration skills

Detail-oriented

Understanding of UK case law

Education

Law degree or equivalent qualification

Tools

LLM providers familiarity

Job description

We are seeking an experienced case law editor to join our Global Editorial Operations Cases organisation. This individual contributor role combines traditional legal editorial expertise with emerging GenAI quality review responsibilities. The role holder will primarily focus on writing and reviewing UK Law Reports headnotes whilst contributing to GenAI summary evaluation and broader editorial projects. The ideal candidate will possess a meticulous eye for legal accuracy and style, demonstrate sound editorial judgment and show an active interest in AI-assisted content workflows.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality headnotes for publication across the UK Law Reports portfolio, ensuring legal accuracy, completeness, adherence to house style, and delivery within agreed timelines.
• Revise and quality‑assure head notes prepared by others, ensuring consistency with editorial and style standards; provide constructive feedback to enhance quality outcomes.
• Monitor and flag issues relating to anonymisation, reporting restrictions or other factors that may impact reportability or publication risk.
• Contribute to case selection, ensuring cases chosen for publication align with editorial criteria.
• Edit and style material in the relevant format, using templates where relevant.
• Work collaboratively with the UK Law Reports team to meet scheduling needs whilst continuing to meet editorial, stylistic and functional standards.
• Review and rate GenAI case summaries to agreed timelines.
• Support project initiatives, including testing, training, mentoring and contributing to the continuous improvement of editorial processes and AI‑assisted workflows.
• Apply subject‑matter expertise to improve the quality of legal content, serving as an editorial authority and legal SME within the team.

Qualifications

• Experience in legal publishing, case summarisation, or editorial roles, with a strong understanding of UK case law.
• Exceptional written English and editorial precision, with the ability to understand, navigate and present complex legal materials clearly and accurately.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively across teams, including product, technology and operations colleagues.
• Familiarity or awareness of LLM providers (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc.) and prompt engineering desirable.
• Highly detail‑oriented and organised, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• A law degree or equivalent qualification required.

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional

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