RELX
Professional Support Lawyer
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Are you a commercially focused legal professional who enjoys translating complex legal concepts into practical, accessible guidance for customers? Do you want to play a key role in shaping high-quality legal content and current awareness for a market-leading platform?
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
You will contribute to the creation and delivery of high-quality commercial legal content and current awareness for the Lexis+ platform. This role focuses on producing practical guidance, monitoring legal developments, and collaborating with internal teams and customers to ensure content is relevant, accurate, and valuable to practitioners.
Responsibilities
- Assisting with the creation, development, and maintenance of a market-leading content set for the Commercial practical guidance module to a high standard technically and editorially
- Monitoring developments, including anticipated upcoming developments, relevant to our customer base and/or which other teams within Lexis+ may need to be aware of
- Working closely with Lexis+ Hub to produce a market-leading current awareness offering, providing news and analysis of the highest quality, and tailored to the needs and expectations of practitioners
- Engaging proactively with customers and contacts in relevant markets to understand customer requirements and keep up-to-date with developments in practice
- Assisting with customer queries via customer feedback or the LexisAsk service regarding relevant coverage areas where required
- Working proactively with other Lexis+ practice areas and the wider business where it is relevant to do so
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Requirements
- A lawyer qualified in England and Wales (either a solicitor (including professional support lawyer/PSL) or barrister) with significant and broad experience of commercial law and practice
- Excellent knowledge—both technically and in the practical application—of relevant laws, issues, processes, and procedures
- Ability to communicate complex legal and procedural concepts and their practical application concisely, clearly and in Lexis+ tone and house style
- A deep understanding of the legal market and in-house legal community, including the technical and practical needs and pain-points of practitioners
- Demonstrable experience of drafting documents on substantive and procedural issues, updates on key developments and/or other legal know-how
- Excellent research, organisation and planning skills, and a strong drive and ability to meet challenging objectives and deliverables
- Ability to work effectively and co-operatively with others, adopting a can-do attitude
- Pro-active in taking responsibility for continually developing and expanding areas of expertise, skills and knowledge
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; 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.
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