About This Role
This role involves editing copy for all legal beats daily, focusing on court cases, administrative proceedings, and legislative and regulatory actions. The Associate Legal News Copy Editor will also monitor developments and report on legal news for an assigned topic, ensuring content clarity, accuracy, and adherence to house style. The position requires working within deadline-driven news operations and supporting editorial standards.
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
- Hard news copyediting experience and excellent news judgment
- Bachelor's degree in journalism/communications or relevant work experience
- Ability to multitask and reprioritize throughout the day
- Ability to understand and explain complex legal topics
- Skilled and speedy copy editor and news writer
- Ability to work Eastern time zone hours
- Ability to work independently
Benefits
- Healthy work/life balance across the organization
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Shared parental leave
- Study assistance
Important Details
- Work format: can be performed anywhere within the United States
- Application deadline: 30 November 2026
About the Company
Lexis Nexis Legal & Professional serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide. It is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. The company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market, employing over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions. Lexis Nexis 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.
