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About the Role
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. Practical Law editors are experienced legal professionals who sit at the intersection of law, technology and the development of AI-driven legal solutions, such as CoCounsel.
Responsibilities
- Research, write and maintain clear, current, and practical legal content aligned with market practice and customer needs, and business objectives.
- Review and edit content written by others, whether by colleagues or external expert contributors.
- Keep up to date with legal, practice and market developments to ensure content remains accurate, relevant and aligned with business objectives.
- Use your legal expertise to support the development of customer-focused Thomson Reuters' AI-powered legal solutions.
- Use your legal expertise and editorial skills to support the development and application of internal AI editorial tools.
- Develop and maintain relationships with lawyers and industry groups to ensure content reflects current market practice.
- Use your specialist legal knowledge to assist the wider Thomson Reuters team, working with product management, sales, marketing, and technology functions where necessary.
Requirements
- You are a UK qualified solicitor, barrister or legal executive.
- Substantial post-qualification experience working as a public sector lawyer in local or central government, in a law firm, in-house or at the bar in the UK and extensive experience of administrative and public law, including judicial review, local authority decision-making and information law.
- Strong writing skills, and a passion for writing about legal practice accurately, concisely and in plain English.
- A collaborative mindset with the ability to work effectively independently and in teams.
- Strong technical skills and the ability to effectively utilise various tools, including generative AI technologies, to enhance productivity and accuracy.
- Adaptability and flexibility to work on diverse projects and tasks within the generative AI space as well as new and emerging technologies.
- A curious mindset, including about the increasing intersection of AI and legal practice, adaptable and open to change.
- Experience of using AI tools in legal work.
Skills
- Public sector law
- Administrative law
- Local government law
- Writing
- Editing
- AI tools
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Specialist
- Substantial post-qualification experience
Education Level
- UK qualified solicitor, barrister or legal executive
Benefits
- Hybrid Work Model (2-3 days a week in the office)
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance (Flex My Way policies)
- Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
- Career Development and Growth (Grow My Way programming)
- Industry Competitive Benefits (flexible vacation, mental health days, Headspace app access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs)
- Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- Social Impact (two paid volunteer days off annually, pro-bono consulting, ESG initiatives)
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.