US Legal Editor, AI Content Updating

Matthew Bender & Company, Inc. Company; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 109,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing initiatives

Shared parental leave

Study assistance

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional seeks a US Legal Editor, AI Content Updating to curate and expand authoritative US legal analysis. This role partners with authors and leverages AI-enabled tools to ensure content remains current and useful, applying editorial judgment to AI outputs before publication.

You will lead author relationships, manage content updates, and help test and improve AI-assisted workflows, with a focus on real-time currency for evolving legislation and case law.

Qualifications

• Edit complex legal analysis for clarity, consistency, and voice.
• Demonstrate ability to edit diverse legal commentary with precision.
• Draft, review, and refine AI-assisted content workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own author relationships and content management with a focus on currency.
• Coordinate with AI tools to update content in real time after legal developments.
• Provide subject-matter insight for testing and improving AI editorial tools.
• Support cross-functional initiatives like new product pilots and author recruitment.

Skills

Editorial judgment

AI tooling proficiency

Legal analysis

Project management

Relationship management

Education

J.D.

Tools

Lexis+ Protégé

Agentic Content Platform

Job description

Ready to bring your legal and editorial expertise into the AI era? Do you want to play a key role in shaping how AI transforms legal content development?

About the 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.

About the Role

We’re looking for a highly collaborative and detail-oriented US Legal Editor, AI Content Updating to join the Global Analytical Editorial Operations team. In this role you will curate, enhance, and expand authoritative US legal analysis by partnering with expert authors and leveraging AI-enabled editorial tools to ensure legal commentary and analysis remains accurate, current, and useful. You’ll combine sharp legal insight with strong project and relationship management skills to ensure that our products deliver comprehensive and timely guidance to our customers. A central focus of the role is the thoughtful, day-to-day use of AI tools to support content commissioning, research, drafting, review, and updating at scale. You will apply editorial judgment to review and refine AI-generated outputs before publication, contribute subject-matter insight to the testing and improvement of those tools, and encourage authors and contributors to adopt AI-supported workflows effectively.

Core responsibilities include owning author relationships, content management, and AI-enabled content updating, with a focus on maximizing content currency through real-time updates following legislative, case law, and regulatory developments.

Author & Contributor Relationships

• Recruit, onboard, and support top external authors in the field, fostering strong relationships with trusted subject matter experts and positioning LexisNexis as a preferred publishing partner.
• Set clear expectations for scope, style, quality, and delivery timelines, and provide ongoing guidance and feedback to drive consistent, high-value content aligned to portfolio and customer needs.
• Maintain productive long-term relationships, intervening early to resolve performance issues or revise author mix as needed; manage contributor contracts within approved budgets.
• Encourage and support authors’ effective use of Lexis+ Protégé and provide guidance on quality standards for AI-assisted content.

Domain Expertise & Content Planning

• Track legislative, regulatory, and case-law developments to keep content current, understand emerging trends, and identify white-space opportunities for new content.
• Manage portfolio delivery plans, collaborating with Content Operations to balance quality, speed, and cost.

AI-Enabled Editorial & Content Updating

• Use Agentic Content Platform as an integral part of everyday editorial workflows, applying editorial judgment to evaluate, refine, and approve outputs before publication.
• Provide substantive and structural updates and edits, ensuring accuracy, clarity, consistency, and cross-platform functionality.
• Contribute subject-matter insight to the testing, evaluation, and continuous improvement of AI tools used for content development and updating.
• Contribute to cross-functional initiatives such as new product pilots, author recruitment, Lexis+ Protégé answer quality analysis.

Product & Market Alignment

• Partner with Product Managers, Content Strategy, and Segment teams to ensure alignment with market needs; monitor customer feedback and analytics to make improvements.
• Act as subject matter expert for assigned practice areas, supplying requirements for customer-facing features and workflow improvements.
• Support Marketing and Sales with subject-matter expertise to enhance marketing collateral and product positioning.

Requirements

• Education – J.D. required.
• Experience – 1–5 years of legal practice, legal publishing, or comparable legal content development experience, along with a desire to develop professional depth of understanding in other practice areas.
• Editorial Excellence – Demonstrated ability to edit complex legal analysis for clarity, consistency, and voice.
• AI & Tech Fluency – Confidence working with AI-enabled tools for legal research, document summarization, content drafting, and editorial review. Skilled at crafting prompts, evaluating outputs, iterating for optimal results, and contributing to the improvement of AI-supported workflows.
• Commercial Mindset – Ability to interpret market signals, customer feedback, and data to inform content initiatives and drive sustainable growth.
• Communication & Adaptability – Clear, positive communicator who thrives on collaborating with stakeholders and partners; executes on commitments, pivots quickly as needed, and views setbacks as learning opportunities.

Work in a way that works for you

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

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

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.

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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.

#AIFluent Primary Location Base Pay Range: Home based-New York $65,100 - $108,500. U.S. National Base Pay Range: $59,200 - $98,600. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. Base Pay Range for CO is $59,200 - $98,600. Base Pay Range for IL is $62,100 - $103,500. Base Pay Range for Chicago, IL is $65,100 - $108,500. Base Pay Range for MD is $62,100 - $103,500. Base Pay Range for NY is $65,100 - $108,500. Base Pay Range for New York City is $71,000 - $118,300. Base Pay Range for Rochester, NY is $59,200 - $98,600. Base Pay Range for OH is $56,200 - $93,700. Base Pay Range for NJ is $69,916- $111,684.

Application deadline is 10/31/2026.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.

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.