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About the Role
Practical Law is seeking an experienced capital markets lawyer with significant experience advising startups to join its Capital Markets & Corporate Governance team in the US. As a Senior Specialist Legal Editor, you will use your specialist legal knowledge and experience to create and maintain content for Practical Law and support the development of Thomson Reuters AI-powered legal solutions.
Responsibilities
- Researching, drafting, and maintaining clear, current, and practical legal know-how content addressing the needs of startup companies for Practical Law and other Thomson Reuters products and initiatives.
- Monitoring legal, practice, and market developments impacting startups to ensure content remains relevant and accurate.
- Using legal expertise to support the development of customer-focused AI-powered tools, including identifying and implementing methods that address the intersection of content development and AI-driven legal solutions.
- Partnering with Product Management to innovate on tech development, product enhancements, and the integration of AI into TR's offerings.
- Using legal expertise and writing skills to support the development and application of internal AI editorial tools.
- Establishing and maintaining relationships with external law firm contributors and industry groups to ensure content reflects market practice and meets customer needs.
- Supporting sales, marketing, and other parts of the business, including responding to customer inquiries.
Requirements
- JD required.
- Minimum of eight (8) years' experience working as a lawyer in a law firm or in-house with a significant amount of experience working with startup companies.
- Strong technical skills and the ability to effectively utilize various tools, including generative AI technologies, to enhance productivity and accuracy.
- Demonstrated adaptability and flexibility to work on diverse projects and tasks within the generative AI space as well as new and emerging technologies.
- Deep curiosity about the increasing intersection of AI and legal practice, with a desire to build legal prompt engineering skills and innovative content development methods that optimize AI responses for specific legal tasks.
- Understand current market issues and proposals to enact, amend, or change laws and regulations impacting US startups.
- Understand the needs and priorities of law firm attorneys, in-house counsel, and other startups professionals.
- Skill and passion for writing and the ability to write about complex legal issues clearly and concisely in plain English.
- Innovative, agile thinker with excellent time management, organizational skills, and demonstrated project management.
- Enthusiasm for working on a dynamic editorial team, comfortable working in an environment of rapid change, and a passion for exploring how AI can revolutionize editorial content creation.
- Candidates selected for a second interview will be required to submit a writing sample.
Skills
- Capital Markets Law
- Corporate Governance
- Startup Advising
- Legal Content Creation
- AI Legal Solutions
- Generative AI Technologies
- Prompt Engineering
- Legal Writing
- Time Management
- Organizational Skills
- Project Management
Location
- United States
Work Type
- Remote
- Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Experience Level
- Senior Specialist
- Minimum of eight (8) years' experience working as a lawyer
Education Level
- JD required
Salary/Compensations
- $119,700 USD - $222,300 USD
Benefits
- Flex My Way workplace policies
- Flexible work arrangements
- Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
- Continuous learning and skill development
- Grow My Way programming
- Skills-first approach
- Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
- Competitive 401k plan with company match
- 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
- Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging
- Two paid volunteer days off annually
- Opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and ESG initiatives
- 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
- Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance
About the Company
- Practical Law is a leading online know-how service providing expert-created, practical maintained content to help legal professionals work smarter and advise with confidence.
- Practical Law is part of Thomson Reuters, one of the world’s most trusted providers of answers across law, tax, compliance, government and media.
- 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.
- We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency.
- Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
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.