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About the Role
Practical Law US is seeking a Senior Specialist Legal Editor to develop and write commercial legal and compliance content for their online services, assist in editorial development, and manage relationships with external contributors.
Responsibilities
- Develop commercial legal and compliance content of national and global significance.
- Write and edit legal resources, including standard form documents, practice guidance notes, and checklists.
- Assist in the editorial development of Practical Law or Thomson Reuters products, including Global and AI initiatives.
- Establish and maintain relationships with external law firm contributors.
- Write and edit content for Practical Law’s companion magazine, Practical Law The Journal.
- Stay informed of current developments and legal issues relating to commercial contracting and practice.
- Develop relationships with lawyers in private practice, in-house counsel, and legal professional groups.
- Support AI initiatives, including training AI for use in products and validating model performance.
- Support product development and sales and marketing teams.
- Conduct sales demonstrations and webinars.
- Respond to subscriber inquiries regarding Practical Law resources.
Requirements
- A minimum of eight years' experience working as a lawyer in a law firm or as in-house counsel.
- Understanding of the needs and priorities of law firm attorneys and in-house counsel.
- Expertise in a variety of commercial transactional and regulatory matters.
- Strong project management skills.
- Ability to balance multiple tasks.
- Skill and passion for writing.
- Close attention to detail.
- Impressive command of grammar, punctuation, and plain English.
- Ability to write about complex legal issues clearly and simply.
- Ability to collaborate with and support team members.
- Flexibility in working on tasks other than writing legal resources.
- Candidates selected for a second interview will be required to submit a writing sample.
Skills
- Commercial transactional and regulatory matters
- General contract principles and boilerplate
- Government contracting
- Multi-state consumer regulatory issues and compliance
- Manufacturing and supply chain compliance
- Franchise
- Distribution, logistics, warehousing, and reseller transactions
- E-commerce transactions
- Consulting, sales representative, and professional services arrangements
- Project management
- Writing
- Collaboration
Work Type
- Flexible work arrangements
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $119,700 USD - $222,300 USD
Benefits
- Flexible vacation
- Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
- Access to the Headspace app
- Retirement savings
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee incentive programs
- Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
- Competitive 401k plan with company match
- Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Sabbatical leave
- Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance
- Optional life and AD&D insurance
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
- Fitness reimbursement
- Access to Employee Assistance Program
- Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit
- Access to 529 Plan
- Commuter benefits
- Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
About the Company
- Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions.
- We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media.
- Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency.
- Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
- We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments.
- At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them.
- Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
Equal Opportunity
- As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals.
- To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law.
- Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
- We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.