Senior Legal Taxonomist UK

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