Legal Editor - AI Content Updating

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; India; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is seeking a Legal Editor, AI Content Updating, to lead commissioning, development, and ongoing evolution of authoritative legal content across print and digital platforms. You will work with expert authors and AI-enabled tools to keep content current, accurate, and commercially relevant.

This role blends editorial expertise, relationship management, commercial awareness, and tech fluency to shape how legal knowledge is created, maintained, and delivered at scale,

Qualifications

• Legal or professional background required.
• Experience in commissioning, publishing, content development with portfolio ownership.
• Clear communication and adaptability to lead through change.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with expert authors.
• Openness to innovation and new technologies in editorial/publishing.
• Strong editorial judgement and focus on quality.
• Effective project management and organisational skills.
• Confidence working with AI-enabled tools and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Commission and manage legal content portfolios across digital and print platforms.
• Recruit, onboard, and manage external authors and reviewers; set expectations for scope, style, delivery, and AI-assisted drafting.
• Own end-to-end commissioning lifecycle, including business case development, budgets, contracts, schedules, and realisation of commercial/operational benefits.
• Track legislative and regulatory developments using AI tools to support horizon scanning and impact assessment.
• Provide substantive editorial oversight and AI-supported updating for accuracy, clarity, and usability.
• Support design/testing of generative and agentic AI tools to assist commissioning, research, updating, and maintenance.
• Operate with AI as a standard part of workflow; document prompts and apply editorial judgement to verify outputs.

Skills

Editorial judgement

Relationship management

Project management

Communication skills

Adaptability

AI awareness

Education

Law degree or equivalent

Tools

AI tools

LLMs

Job description

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 prioritises 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 of legal content at scale, applying expert judgement to evaluate and refine outputs.
• Operate with AI as a standard part of the workflow, using LLMs and AI-enabled tools daily, documenting and iterating prompts, and applying editorial judgment to verify and improve AI outputs before publication or stakeholder use.

Requirements

• Legal or professional background, with a law qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Experience in commissioning, legal publishing, content development, with evidence of portfolio ownership and decision-making responsibility.
• Clear communication skills and adaptability, with the resilience and influence needed to lead through change.
• Ability to build strong and trusted relationships with expert authors.
• Demonstrated openness to innovation and the application of new technologies within editorial and publishing environments.
• Strong editorial judgement and attention to quality.
• Effective project management and organisational skills.
• Confidence working with AI-enabled tools and technologies.

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, 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. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. USA Job Seekers: EEO Know Your Rights.

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions. Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.