Legal Editor

RELX; Selangor; Hybrid; MYR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Assurance Policies

Long Service Award

Hybrid work arrangements

Access to Learning and Development资源

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional in Malaysia seeks a Legal Editor to safeguard the integrity, accuracy, and currency of case law content across Southeast Asia, including AI-ready editorial practices.

You will source, edit, and validate materials, monitor legal developments in SEA jurisdictions, and collaborate with Product and Technology teams to improve digital research tools and editorial workflows for customers.

Qualifications

• LLB or equivalent legal qualification required.
• Experience in legal practice, publishing, research, or editorial operations preferred.
• Exposure to digital publishing tools and AI-assisted workflows is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Source, analyse, edit, and validate legal case law content and related materials.
• Monitor legal developments across SEA jurisdictions.
• Ensure editorial accuracy, legal integrity, and timeliness of content.
• Conduct legal research to support content development and editorial decisions.
• Collaborate with technology and product teams on intelligent legal content initiatives.
• Adhere to publication schedules and manage editorial workflows.

Skills

Legal editing

Editorial accuracy

Strong written and verbal comms

English and Malay proficiency

Education

LLB or equivalent legal qualification

Tools

Content management systems

Digital publishing tools

AI-assisted editorial workflows

Job description

About Our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading provider of legal data and information services. We specialise in delivering accurate, comprehensive, and timely legal content to professionals across various industries, including law firms, corporations, and government agencies. As a Legal Editor, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the integrity and quality of our legal data products.

About Our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading provider of legal data and information services. We specialise in delivering accurate, comprehensive, and timely legal content to professionals across various industries, including law firms, corporations, and government agencies. As a Legal Editor, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the integrity and quality of our legal data products.

About The Role

The Legal Editor is responsible for ensuring the integrity, legal accuracy, currency, and AI-readiness of case law content and legal research materials across Southeast Asia jurisdictions. The role combines legal editorial expertise with digital content awareness, legal research intelligence, and operational collaboration to support LexisNexis legal technology products and AI-enabled research solutions. This role contributes to the transformation of legal publishing into intelligent legal content delivery by ensuring legal materials are structured, enriched, searchable, analytically valuable, and aligned with evolving customer research behavior and GenAI product capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Source, analyse, edit, and validate legal case law content and related materials.
• Monitor legal developments, judicial trends, and emerging legal issues across SEA jurisdictions.
• Ensure editorial accuracy, legal integrity, timeliness, and consistency of assigned products.
• Conduct legal research and legal analysis to support content development and editorial decisions.
• Contribute editorial insights that improve customer legal research experience and legal analytics value.
• Ensure legal content is optimized for digital research platforms and AI-assisted legal solutions.
• Support AI/GenAI readiness initiatives through structured content validation, metadata consistency, taxonomy alignment, and semantic enrichment practices.
• Collaborate with technology and product teams on intelligent legal content initiatives.
• Ensure legal content supports discoverability, citation accuracy, search relevance, and downstream AI usage.
• Adapt editorial practices to evolving legal tech and AI-assisted workflows.
• Participate in evaluation and testing of AI-assisted editorial and research tools.
• Adhere to publication schedules and operational SLAs across multiple formats and jurisdictions.
• Manage editorial workflows and coordinate with vendors, contributors, and operational stakeholders.
• Prioritize competing deadlines while maintaining editorial quality standards.
• Support strategic projects, workflow enhancements, and cross-functional initiatives.
• Maintain accurate editorial tracking, documentation, and operational reporting.
• Identify opportunities to improve editorial workflows, research processes, and operational efficiency.
• Support automation, workflow modernization, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Recommend process improvements that enhance scalability, quality, and turnaround time.
• Contribute ideas for product innovation and enhanced customer research experience.
• Support implementation of operational best practices and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Build strong working relationships with Editorial, Product, Technology, Commercial, and Operations teams.
• Support customer-facing teams with legal content and product-related queries.
• Manage relationships with authors, contributors, licensors, and vendors.
• Collaborate across regional and global teams on editorial and strategic initiatives.
• Participate in global operational and transformation projects where required.
• Support product enhancements, content expansion, and editorial innovation initiatives.
• Conduct competitor benchmarking and monitor legal publishing market trends.
• Identify emerging customer needs and legal research trends impacting product strategy.
• Contribute recommendations for new content, features, and legal research enhancements.

Qualifications

• LLB or equivalent legal qualification required.
• Additional certification or exposure to legal technology, AI, publishing, or project management is advantageous.
• Experience in legal practice, legal publishing, legal research, or editorial operations preferred.
• Experience working with legal content, case law analysis, or legal information products.
• Exposure to digital publishing, legal technology, or AI-assisted workflows is advantageous.
• Strong legal research and legal analytical skills.
• Strong understanding of case law developments and legal systems within SEA jurisdictions.
• Superior reading comprehension and editorial judgment.
• Ability to identify legal trends, emerging issues, and customer research needs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High attention to detail and editorial accuracy.
• Awareness of AI/GenAI developments in legal research and publishing.
• Understanding of AI-ready content principles, metadata quality, and structured legal content.
• Adaptability to evolving legal technology and AI-assisted editorial environments.
• Familiarity with legal research platforms, content management systems, and digital publishing tools.
• Good organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to manage competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working collaboratively across functions and jurisdictions.
• Strong problem-solving and process improvement mindset.
• Competent in Agile or continuous improvement methodologies preferred.
• Proficient in English and Malay (written and spoken). Additional regional language capability is advantageous.

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.

• Hybrid work arrangements
• Career progression

Working for you

Benefits

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:

• Life Assurance Policies: Providing financial security for your loved ones.
• Long Service Award: Recognition for your dedication and loyalty.
• Hybrid work arrangements: Balance work and personal life effectively.
• Access to Learning and Development Resources: Empowering your professional growth.

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.