US Legal Editor, AI Content Updating

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.