UK Managing Editor, Cases

Butterworths Limited Company; Farringdon; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Country-specific benefits

Shared parental leave

Disability accommodation

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional seeks a UK Managing Editor, Cases to lead editorial teams delivering UK case law content across digital and print formats. You will drive quality, timeliness, and efficiency while advancing AI-enabled workflows and editorial innovation.

Reporting to the Director, Case Law Content Performance and Operations, you will partner with commercial and product teams to align output with market needs and maintain high editorial standards in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading editorial teams and content production operations (legal content).
• Ability to manage complex editorial workflows across digital and print publishing environments.
• Experience using performance metrics and reporting to drive outcomes.
• Experience supporting process improvement, automation, or AI-enabled workflows.

Responsibilities

• Oversee workflows for UK case law content across digital and print formats.
• Lead UK-based editorial teams delivering case law content across the UK portfolio.
• Collaborate with commercial and product stakeholders to align output with market needs.
• Develop, monitor, and report on editorial metrics and performance indicators.

Skills

Editorial leadership

Stakeholder management

Performance metrics

AI-enabled workflows

Education

Law degree or relevant work experience

Job description

UK Managing Editor, Legal Cases

Are you an experienced editorial leader who is passionate about delivering high-quality legal content and driving operational excellence? Do you enjoy leading teams through innovation and transformation, including the adoption of AI-enabled workflows that enhance productivity, quality, and customer value?

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 Reporting to the Director, Case Law Content Performance and Operations, the UK Managing Editor, Cases is responsible for leading UK-based editorial teams delivering case law content across the UK portfolio. The role has overall accountability for business-as-usual production across online case law and Law Reports, ensuring content meets established standards for quality, timeliness, and completeness while supporting operational excellence and continuous improvement. Based in the UK (Farringdon / Lexis House), this position also plays a key role in the adoption of AI-enabled workflows and editorial innovation.

Responsibilities

• Oversee workflows for UK case law content across digital and print formats, ensuring quality, accuracy, timeliness, and cost effectiveness.
• Collaborate with commercial and product stakeholders to align editorial output with market requirements and opportunities.
• Develop, monitor, and report on editorial metrics and performance indicators aligned to operational objectives.
• Drive adoption, growth, and integration of systems, tools, automation, and AI-enabled solutions within editorial processes.
• Lead UK-based editorial teams delivering case law content across the UK portfolio.
• Ensure online case law and Law Reports outputs meet established standards for quality, timeliness, and completeness.
• Support operational efficiency and performance management within a structured, high-performance environment.
• Contribute to innovation, consistency, productivity, and quality across editorial operations.

Requirements

• Experience leading editorial teams and content production operations (legal content).
• Law degree or relevant work experience, with a strong understanding of legal principles.
• Ability to manage complex workflows across digital and print publishing environments.
• Strong focus on quality, accuracy, timeliness, and operational excellence.
• Experience using performance metrics and reporting to drive outcomes.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with commercial and product stakeholders.
• Experience supporting process improvement, automation, or AI-enabled workflows.
• Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work in a structured, high-performance environment while driving innovation.

Work in a Way That Works for You

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

Working Pattern

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

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. We know your well‑being and happiness are key to a long and successful career.

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LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision‑making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. We help lawyers win cases, manage their work more efficiently, serve their clients better and grow their practices. We assist corporations in better understanding their markets and preventing bribery and corruption within their supply chains. We partner with leading global associations and customers to help collect evidence against war criminals and provide tools to combat human trafficking. We endeavour to advance the rule of law across the world.Our teams are combining unparalleled legal and business information with analytics and technology to advance what’s possible for the way our customers work and to advance what’s possible in the world by strengthening the rule of law.