[Remote] Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Commercial Generalist
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thomson Reuters is a leading provider of trusted content and technology, serving professionals across various sectors. They are seeking a Senior Specialist Legal Editor to develop commercial legal and compliance content for their online services, ensuring it meets the needs of law firm and law department subscribers.
Responsibilities
- Develop commercial legal and compliance content that is of national and global significance to be published as part of Practical Law’s online services
- Write and edit legal resources, including standard form documents, practice guidance notes and checklists in accordance with Practical Law writing style
- 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 to ensure timely updates to existing content and the development of new content
- Develop relationships with lawyers in private practice, in-house counsel, and legal professional groups to ensure that the Commercial service’s content is topical and meets their needs
- Support AI initiatives, including training AI for use in products and validating model performance
Skills
- A minimum of eight years' experience working as a lawyer in a law firm or as in-house counsel and an understanding of the needs and priorities of law firm attorneys and in-house counsel
- Expertise in a variety of commercial transactional and regulatory matters, including one or more of the following: general contract principles and boilerplate, including the purchase, sale, and supply of goods and services; government contracting; multi-state consumer regulatory issues and compliance; manufacturing and supply chain compliance; franchise; distribution, logistics, warehousing, and reseller transactions; e-commerce transactions; and consulting, sales representative, and professional services arrangements
- Strong project management skills and the ability to balance multiple tasks at once
- Skill and passion for writing, including: close attention to detail; impressive command of grammar, punctuation, and plain English; and the ability to write about complex legal issues clearly and simply
- The ability to collaborate with and support team members
- Flexibility in working on tasks other than writing legal resources, such as: supporting the product development and sales and marketing teams in their efforts to build and market Practical Law; conducting sales demonstrations and webinars on topics of interest for customers, as requested; and responding to subscriber inquiries regarding Practical Law resources
Benefits
- Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset.
- Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
- Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach
- Comprehensive benefit plans to include 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
- Opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives
- 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 (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave
- Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee
- Optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
- Fitness reimbursement
- Access to Employee Assistance Program
- Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee
- Access to 529 Plan
- Commuter benefits
- Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance
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