Legal Consultant; JD

Are you interested in an alternative legal career that combines legal expertise, training and sales?

Do you enjoy providing education and support to legal professionals?

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 today top model creators for each individual legal use case.

As a Blended Practice Area Consultant, you will engage customers in law firms and. You will do so to create preferences and active users. You will assess customer needs, develop firm-specific and school-specific business plans, and educate customers. You will also partner internally to maximize contract renewals, by ensuring the customer is receiving value from our products.

• Acting as a consultative sales person, by supporting law firms and law school customers in order to increase active users
• Working at all levels of a law firm and law school including students, faculty, associates, partners, librarians and leadership (i.e. law school Dean-level and law-firm managing partners)
• Developing strategic account plans (which will differ school-by-school and firm-by-firm), recognize sales
• Partnering with law firm client managers
• Demonstrating deep product, content or practice area knowledge; acts as internal resource for sales, marketing and segment
• Preparing and delivering specialized customer presentations that communicate our value proposition and differentiators to create new active users
• Conducting research, analysis of findings and shares information with product, segment and marketing as applicable

• Have a Juris Doctor degree;
  State Bar membership is highly preferred
• Possess legal practice, training or sales experience
• Display excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Have experience developing and executing on account plans and coordinating key stakeholders and resources to positively impact clients
• Demonstrate outstanding networking capabilities and exhibit a professional demeanor, business maturity, and technical knowledge
• Have the ability to travel to local accounts

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, and study assistance, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

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:

• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Wellbeing:
  Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
• Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

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. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.