SeniorFull TimeEN
Senior Legal Taxonomist (UK)
Are you passionate about taxonomy and AI?
Are you ready for the next step in your career?
About the team
We are a global Taxonomies and Lexicons team supporting LexisNexis legal and news products, including Lexis+ Protégé. Our work focuses on improving how content is organised, discovered, and used by customers. This includes developing and maintaining taxonomies, classification rules, metadata, and training sets, and responsibly integrating AI technologies to improve quality and efficiency.
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 prioritises using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case.
About the role
This role focuses on developing and maintaining the UK legal taxonomy for Lexis+ Protégé, working closely with Professional Support Lawyers and subject matter experts across a wide range of UK legal practice areas.
You will help ensure that legal topics are clearly structured, accurately classified, and easy for customers to find and use.
Responsibilities:
Maintain and develop topic hierarchies for UK legal and tax practice areas
Conduct legal research using UK Lexis+ to define and validate legal topics
Create and maintain programmatic classification rules to support search relevance across a large legal content corpus
Work collaboratively with PSLs and other experts to expand and improve the taxonomy
Review and enhance Current Awareness and legal news alerts
Take lead responsibility for specific practice areas over time, where you have relevant expertise
Use internal and third‑party AI tools responsibly within taxonomy workflows
Collaborate with UK and global taxonomy colleagues to apply shared standards and best practices
Work with Engineering and Product teams
Requirements:
Broad understanding of legal content across multiple practice areas (publishing background considered)
We could also consider a qualified solicitor or barrister in England and Wales, an equivalent tax qualification, or a professional librarianship qualification with substantial law library experience
Strong collaboration and communication skills
Ability to organise legal information / taxonomy clearly and consistently for different users
Attention to detail and sensitivity to legal language and nuance
Interest in complex legal research and content relevance
Experience using, or interest in, AI tools to improve quality and efficiency
Willingness to learn proprietary taxonomy and classification systems
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization, with various flexible and remote working options available to employees.
Working for you
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
Wellbeing programs
Life assurance
Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
Save As You Earn share option scheme
Travel Season ticket loan
Electric Vehicle Scheme
Optional Dental Insurance
Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
Access to extensive learning and development resources
Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work
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
We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.
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