Legal Support Agent

RELX INC; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

RELX INC is seeking an AI-enabled Research Support Specialist to combine legal and financial research with customer support, leveraging LexisNexis tools and AI-driven capabilities to assist clients in research, writing, and decision-making.

You will deliver high-quality research, demonstrate AI-enabled capabilities, and help customers confidently apply these tools to their workflows.

Qualifications

• LLB legal qualification or equivalent.
• Experience in legal, financial, or news research or customer support.
• Experience using Lexis Advance, Lexis+, or Lexis+ AI.
• Familiar with AI drafting, summarization, and research technologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; able to translate AI concepts for non-technical users.
• Strong multitasking and analytical abilities; manage multiple inquiries simultaneously.
• Proficient PC skills: Windows OS, Microsoft Office; 40 WPM.

Responsibilities

• Conduct high-quality legal, financial, and news research using LexisNexis platforms, traditional sources, and AI-assisted tools.
• Use generative AI to synthesize, summarize, and analyze complex data sets, delivering timely, accurate insights.
• Engage directly with customers through phone, chat, and email to resolve inquiries and demonstrate AI tools in real time.
• Showcase how AI drafting features can accelerate workflows—generating case summaries, client memos, and analytical reports.
• Partner with clients to co-create AI-enhanced outputs, building confidence in responsible AI adoption.
• Diagnose and resolve issues efficiently using department tools, research expertise, and sound professional judgment.
• Act as a customer advocate, reporting feedback and identifying opportunities for AI-driven enhancements to products and processes.
• Maintain the highest standards of data integrity, accuracy, and transparency when using AI tools.

Skills

Legal research

Customer support

Communication

Multitasking

Data integrity

Education

LLB or equivalent

Tools

Lexis Advance

Lexis+

Lexis+ AI

Job description

South Africa

Full time

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Are you passionate about combining expert research skills with cutting-edge technology to deliver exceptional customer experiences?

Would you like to help customers use generative AI and AI drafting tools to transform research, writing, and decision-making?

About our Team

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 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 ( the Role

As an AI-Enabled Research Support Specialist, you will combine research expertise with customer support to help clients make effective use of Lexis+ AI and related technologies. You will deliver high-quality research, demonstrate AI-enabled capabilities, and help customers confidently apply these tools to research, writing, and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Conduct high-quality legal, financial, and news research using LexisNexis platforms, traditional sources, and AI-assisted tools.
• Use generative AI to synthesize, summarize, and analyze complex data sets, delivering timely, accurate, and actionable insights.
• Engage directly with customers through phone, chat, and email to resolve inquiries and demonstrate AI tools in real time.
• Showcase how AI drafting features can accelerate workflows-such as generating case summaries, client memos, and analytical reports.
• Partner with clients to co-create AI-enhanced outputs, building confidence in responsible AI adoption.
• Diagnose and resolve issues efficiently using department tools, research expertise, and sound professional judgment.
• Act as a customer advocate, reporting feedback and identifying opportunities for AI-driven enhancements to products and processes.
• Maintain the highest standards of data integrity, accuracy, and transparency when using AI tools.

Requirements

• Have LLB/legal qualification or equivelant
• Experience in legal, financial, or news research or customer support
• Experience using Lexis Advance, Lexis+, or Lexis+ AI
• Familiarity with AI drafting, summarization, and research technologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to translate complex AI concepts for non-technical users
• Strong multitasking and analytical abilities; able to manage multiple inquiries simultaneously
• Proficient PC skills, including Windows OS, Microsoft Office, and web browsers; minimum typing speed of 40 WPM

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.

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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; 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.