Strategic Business Development Lawyer

About Us

Lexis Nexis 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.

Lexis Nexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and technology that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. We help lawyers win cases, manage their work more efficiently, serve their clients better and grow their practices.

This is a predominantly remote role with periodic in-office attendance. Lexis Nexis Canada is looking for a Strategic Business Development Lawyer to join our team and work with our large law firm customers to ensure that they realize maximum value from their Lexis Nexis services, including Lexis+ AI with Protégé. The Strategic Business Development Lawyer serves as both product expert and legal practice expert, educating and building relationships with customers, partnering as a trusted advisor to ensure lawyers successfully adopt our services in their legal practice.

• Directing the adoption of workflows from Lexis+ AI with Protégé into legal practices and lawyer tasks and processes
• Supporting and directly driving sales of Lexis+AI with Protege
• Delivering a superior customer and prospect experience for Lexis+ AI with Protégé based on a deep understanding of lawyers’ legal practice needs, expectations and goals
• Growing usage and adoption of Lexis Nexis services with our customers
• Managing product trials and multi-stage, multi-stakeholder evaluations across complex organizations
• Preparing and delivering customer presentations to promote adoption and sales
• Developing and maintaining relationships with key contacts and decision makers within customer organizations
• Identify events and associations relevant to the advancement of the product and act as an evangelist for the adoption of Lexis Nexis AI solutions
• Assist in the development of online resources and content, such as videos, reference guides, emails, social media posts and in-product messages
• Bring meaningful insights from the customer and the market into the business to help improve our products and market knowledge

• A J.D. or LL.B degree
• 3-5 years of recent experience in legal practice at a large (more than 100 lawyers) well-known Canadian Firm
• In-depth understanding of law firm operations and trends affecting the legal industry
• Ability to create and present materials and presentations to an executive level audience using both written and verbal communication skills
• Experience and ability in building customer relationships
• Excellent organizational skills and problem-solving abilities
• Written and verbal communication skills in French are an asset
• Knowledge of corporate legal department operations is an asset
• Sales and advocacy experience are an asset

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization, with various flexible and remote working options available to employees.

We believe in a healthy work/life balance. We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Comprehensive, multi-carrier health plan benefits
• Disability insurance
• Dependent care and commuter spending accounts
• Life and accident insurance
• Retirement benefits (salary investment plan/employer stock purchase plan)
• Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy

Lexis Nexis Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information…