Associate Legal News Copy Editor

Are you looking for an exciting editorial role? Do you have great editing and reporting skills?

About our 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.

The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles ( 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 operation