Legal Editor Practice Area Con

1 week ago


Durban, South Africa LexisNexis Full time

Would You Like to Shape the Future of Legal Content?

Join Us in Innovating the Law

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 SA Legal Editor 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. 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.

Responsibilities- Recruiting, onboarding, and supporting external authors; setting clear expectations for scope, style, and delivery.- Maintaining productive long‑term relationships, intervening early to resolve performance issues or revise author mix as needed; managing contributor contracts within approved budgets.- Tracking legislative, regulatory, and case‑law developments to keep content current, understanding emerging trends, and identifying white‑space opportunities for new content.- Managing portfolio delivery plans, collaborating with Content Operations to balance quality, speed, and cost.- Providing substantive and structural updates and/or edits, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and cross‑platform functionality.- Acting as content expert for assigned practice areas, supplying requirements for customer‑facing features and workflow improvements.-
- Leveraging generative and agentic AI, automation, and data to support streamlining of content development and editorial processes.

Requirements- Have a degree in law (LLB, JD, or equivalent); Advanced degree in taxation a plus- Have at least 1 year of professional tax experience in practice, corporate, or advisory settings.- Demonstrated ability to scope requirements for new legal content; edit complex legal analysis for clarity, consistency, and voice.- Be comfortable using LLMs for legal research; skilled at crafting prompts, evaluating outputs, and iterating for optimal results.- Able to interpret market signals, customer feedback, and data to inform content initiatives and drive sustainable growth.- Be a clear and positive communicator who thrives on collaborating with stakeholders and partners; delivers 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 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 for You

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

- Medical Aid
- Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
- Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
- Study Leave

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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