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Associate Legal News Copy Editor

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in journalism/communications or relevant work experience
  • Hard news copyediting experience and excellent news judgment
  • Ability to multitask and reprioritize throughout the day
  • Ability to understand and explain complex legal topics

Responsibilities

  • Edit legal news copy for clarity, accuracy, readability and style
  • Check legal terminology and procedural accuracy
  • Verify factual details and review headlines, leads and copy
  • Perform final publication-quality review and support editorial standards

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Multitasking
  • Time Management

About the company

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RELX

Information Services & Data Providers

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries.We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions.In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America.We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.____Please note that RELX does not contact people through social media to extend job or contract offers, nor do we request money, credit card details or bank account information as part of any project or job application process. Any such request is fraudulent. Please contact your local law enforcement agency if you have been victimized by a scammer. For careers, access https://www.relx.com/careers/why-relx

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryInformation Services & Data Providers
Company size10001

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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


This role can be performed anywhere within the United States.


The Associate Legal News Copy Editor edits copy for all legal beats on a daily basis. The articles will report on court cases, administrative proceedings, and legislative and regulatory actions. The copy editor may also monitor developments and report on legal news for an assigned topic.


As a copy editor, you will edit copy related to important legal developments across multiple topics for daily news production. You will help your team improve the publication content and meet their performance goals.  You will also be responsible for writing news articles.


Responsibilities


  • Edit legal news copy for clarity, accuracy, readability and style
  • Check legal terminology and procedural accuracy
  • Verify factual details
  • Review headlines, leads and copy
  • Apply house style consistently
  • Review legal citations and case information
  • Protect against substantive editing errors
  • Identify gaps and ambiguities
  • Maintain neutrality and appropriate legal-news tone
  • Perform final publication-quality review
  • Work within deadline-driven news operations and meet all deadlines
  • Support editorial standards and consistency across the service
  • May gather news and write news articles that provide explanation of court opinions and other litigation-related documents following guidance provided by manager


Requirements


  • Possess hard news copyediting experience and excellent news judgment
  • Have a Bachelor's degree in journalism/communications or relevant work experience
  • 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 copy editor and news writer
  • Be able to work Eastern time zone hours
  • Have the ability to work independently

Work in a way that works for you
 

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave and study assistance, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

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.



U.S. National Base Pay Range: $44,500 - $74,100. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.

Base Pay Range for CO is $44,500 - $74,100. Base Pay Range for IL is $46,700 - $77,700. Base Pay Range for Chicago, IL is $49,000 - $81,500. Base Pay Range for MD is $46,700 - $77,700. Base Pay Range for NY is $49,000 - $81,500. Base Pay Range for New York City is $53,300 - $88,800. Base Pay Range for Rochester, NY is $44,500 - $74,100. Base Pay Range for OH is $42,200 - $70,400. Base Pay Range for NJ is $52,437- $83,763.




Application deadline is 11/30/2026.



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