Über diese Attorney Editor - Practical Law Stelle bei Thomson Reuters
Practical Law Attorney Editors review, maintain, and update Practical Law content to ensure alignment with current law and jurisprudence. Attorney Editors apply strong legal comprehension, analytical judgment, and attention to detail when reviewing editorial materials and making updates.
The role is highly editorial and detail-oriented, with a primary focus on maintaining and enhancing existing Practical Law resources rather than drafting original content.
About the Role:
In this opportunity as Attorney Editor, you will:
Legal Analysis, Editing, and Writing: Attorney Editors review, maintain, and update Practical Law content to ensure accuracy, consistency, and alignment with in-house style guides, current law, and recent developments. Attorney Editors apply strong legal comprehension, analytical judgment, and attention to detail when reviewing editorial materials and making updates or comments.
Editorial Responsibility: Members of this team must adhere to editorial publishing schedules and quality standards, verifying their own work and that of others for accuracy, Style Guide adherence, completeness, and clear presentation. This includes performing detailed editorial review work such as maintaining Practical law documents, checking and validating case and statute citation links, and correcting punctuation, style, grammar, and formatting to ensure citations function correctly within Practical Law resources. Attorney Editors are also expected to maintain and develop their legal knowledge and editorial skills to stay current on relevant legal developments.
Individual and Leadership Development: As part of a collaborative, global team, Attorney Editors participate in team meetings and the employee evaluation process, including self-evaluation and giving and receiving feedback. Attorney Editors are expected to develop and maintain strong knowledge of Practical Law, and be familiar with Thomson Reuters products, and relevant competitor offerings.
Self-direction: Attorney Editors must effectively prioritize their own work, understand how individual roles contribute to overall production, and manage responsibilities independently. They are expected to demonstrate proficiency in company-specific systems and tools required to perform editorial and production tasks.
Engagement with Editorial AI Efforts: Attorney Editors will engage with AI and large language model (LLM) initiatives, including experimentation, prompt development, and evaluation of AI-generated outputs to support content quality and workflow efficiency.
About You
You’re a fit for the role of Attorney Editor if you:
Have a Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited law school.
Demonstrate strong legal comprehension, analytical thinking, and attention to detail.
Have established copyediting and proofreading skills, including the ability to review punctuation, grammar, formatting, and citations with precision.
Are comfortable using advanced editing tools in Microsoft Word.
Are proficient in or able to quickly develop proficiency with Westlaw and Practical Law, including maintaining and updating resource content.
Can quickly comprehend legal content and apply style guides, editorial standards, and revisions accurately.
Can pivot efficiently to address high‑priority updates while maintaining quality
Are a collaborative team member who works effectively in a global, cross-functional environment.
Are a clear, proactive communicator who can convey ideas and feedback effectively in both written and verbal form to stakeholders within and outside Thomson Reuters worldwide.
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What’s in it For You?
Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: 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. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer 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, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact: 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.
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