Thomson Reuters is a global leader in providing trusted content and technology for professionals in various sectors. The Legal Publisher role involves sourcing, creating, editing, and maintaining high-quality legal content for platforms like Westlaw, while managing relationships to ensure timely content delivery.
Responsibilities
- Source, review, and maintain legal commentary content, supporting workflows and projects for online, print, and e-book products
- Manage third-party and internal relationships to adhere to publishing schedules and quality standards and ensure timely content delivery
- Stay current with legal trends and market developments
- Demonstrate expertise, efficiency, and curiosity in using Westlaw and other legal research technology
- Create, edit, and update secondary legal content, including highlights, and other features. Identify and organize key legal issues. Verify accuracy and completeness of legal content
- Leverage legal knowledge and experience to test and validate AI solutions by working across teams to create gold data, and test and grade model outputs
- Prioritize work and communicate effectively with stakeholders in the production of legal content and understand the roles and responsibilities of each collaborator/team member and how each role impacts the work
- Demonstrate competence on company specific systems necessary to perform your job functions and develop knowledge of Thomson Reuters content and products, as well as those of competitors
Skills
- Law degree from an accredited law school required
- Self-starter with aptitude for legal research and writing, including experience using Westlaw and/or Practical Law and other products used for legal research
- Analytical thinker who uses logic and collaboration to solve difficult problems
- Decisive with a focus on making quality decisions efficiently and productively
- Ability to interpret, analyze, organize, and communicate complex legal material
- Comfortable working in a fluid, dynamic, and fast-paced environment
- Ability to prioritize tasks and projects and pursue them with energy and drive
- A positive teammate who is flexible and adaptable and will work successfully in a shared environment
- Strong communicator who can speak and write clearly and effectively with all contacts, both in and outside Thomson Reuters
- Proficiency in and familiarity with Microsoft Office 365
- Practice experience or legal editorial experience, or equivalent, strongly preferred
- Bilingual in French/English is preferred but not mandatory
Benefits
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Company Overview
Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, CAN, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://thomsonreuters.com.
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