Associate Legal News Editor
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 an Associate Legal News Editor, you will monitor and identify important legal developments and write news articles for daily news production. You will help set direction and provide tactical guidance when needed. Seeking continual improvement of publication content, you will help your team meet their performance goals.
This role can be performed anywhere within the United States.
Responsibilities
- Gathering news and identifying relevant official documents regarding events and developments in the assigned practice areas
- Selecting which developments to report
- Digesting and providing explanation on court opinions and other litigation-related documents following guidance provided by manager
- Writing news articles for daily upload to website and inclusion in print publications
- Meeting all deadlines while producing publications in a timely manner
- Reviewing all available analytics of web-based usage of content to help drive content focus
Requirements
- Possess hard news reporting experience and excellent news judgment
- Have a Bachelor’s degree in journalism/communications (relevant experience considered without a degree)
- Have the ability to multitask and reprioritize throughout the day
- Have the ability to understand and explain complex legal topics
- Be a skilled and speedy news writer
- Have the ability to network with attorney sources, use online and other resources to gather information
- Possess excellent interviewing skills
- Be able to work Eastern time zone hours
- Have the ability to work independently