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About the Role
As Legal Editor at Thomson Reuters, you will help build Westlaw Japan, a comprehensive online legal research service for Japanese law. You will collect, analyze, and edit legal information, such as statutes, case law, legal articles, and legal news, and link related information on the database so that its users can find what they need quickly and accurately. This role lets you apply your legal knowledge and editorial expertise to contribute directly to the growth of our products.
Responsibilities
- Collecting, selecting, editing, updating, and maintaining legal information in the database.
- Classifying, organizing, and linking information to enhance database usability.
- Ensuring database integrity by reviewing content and implementing quality standards.
- Collaborating with legal practitioners, external editors, professional bodies, and government agencies.
- Leading assigned projects and overseeing the quality of work from external contributors.
- Improving editorial systems, standardizing procedures, and increasing efficiency with generative AI tools.
- Applying an editorial perspective to the development of new and existing content.
- Collaborating with product, technology, sales, and overseas editorial teams to enhance content quality based on customer feedback.
Requirements
- A law degree, or equivalent legal knowledge gained through legal practice or legal editing.
- Ability to accurately interpret the structure of statutes and case law.
- Japanese proficiency for reading, interpreting, and editing legal documents.
- Excellent writing and proofreading skills in Japanese.
- Strong communication skills for building trust and reporting.
- Close attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines.
- Conversational English skills for email and meetings with overseas teams.
- Proficiency in editorial systems, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Positive attitude towards adopting new tools and technologies, including generative AI.
Skills
- Legal editing
- Database management
- Content enhancement
- Quality management
- Collaboration
- Project management
- Process improvement
- Generative AI tools
- Content development
- Customer feedback analysis
- Japanese language proficiency
- English language proficiency
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid Work Model
- Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Experience Level
- Legal practice
- Legal editing
- Editing experience at a legal publisher or legal information service company
- Experience commissioning content and collaboration with external practitioners, professional bodies, and government agencies
- Management of structured documents, such as XML
- Development of classification systems using fundamental programming knowledge
- Proficiency in leveraging generative AI tools for editorial operations
- Experience managing competing priorities and resolving editorial issues under publication deadlines
Education Level
- Law degree
- Juris Doctor (JD) from a Japanese law school
- Master's degree or higher in law
- Legal qualifications (Japanese bar examination, judicial scrivener, administrative scrivener, or patent attorney)
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
- Two paid volunteer days off annually
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.
- As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals.
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.