Legal Editor - AI Content Updating

LexisNexis; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional in Sandton seeks a Legal Editor, AI Content Updating, to lead the commissioning and ongoing evolution of authoritative legal content across print and digital platforms. You will work with expert authors and AI tools to ensure content remains current, accurate, and commercially relevant.

The role requires strong editorial judgment, relationship-building skills, and comfort with AI-enabled drafting and updating.

Qualifications

• LLB degree or equivalent legal qualification.
• Experience in commissioning, legal publishing, or content development with portfolio ownership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with stakeholders.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with expert authors and editors.
• Willingness to innovate and apply new technologies within editorial workflows.
• Strong editorial judgment and attention to quality.
• Proven project management and organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end commissioning lifecycle for legal content across print and digital platforms.
• Recruit, onboard, and manage external authors and reviewers.
• Plan and prioritise content development using AI-enabled horizon scanning.
• Provide substantive editorial oversight and quality controls.
• Collaborate with design, product, and data teams to refine AI outputs.
• Document prompts and iterate to improve AI-assisted updates.

Skills

Communication skills

Editorial judgment

Adaptability

Relationship building

Innovation mindset

Project management

Education

LLB degree

Tools

AI-enabled tools

AI drafting tools

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 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

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 judgment 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

• Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree or an equivalent legal qualification
• 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 judgment 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.