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The Senior Specialist Legal Editor will research, draft, and maintain practical legal content tailored to the needs of startup companies. They will also partner with product teams to integrate AI-powered solutions into Thomson Reuters' legal offerings.
Candidates must hold a JD and possess at least eight years of experience in a law firm or in-house setting with a focus on startups. Strong technical proficiency, particularly with generative AI tools, and excellent writing skills are essential for this role.
We are seeking an experienced capital markets lawyer with significant experience advising startups to join Practical Law’s Capital Markets & Corporate Governance team in the US.
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.
As a Senior Specialist Legal Editor in Practical Law, you will use your specialist legal knowledge of, and experience in, law and practice addressing issues unique to startups to create and maintain a wide range of content and to support the development of Thomson Reuters AI-powered legal solutions. Working in a supportive team of highly experienced colleagues, you will deal with a breadth of interesting work.
Researching, drafting, and maintaining clear, current, and practical legal know-how content addressing the needs of startup companies for Practical Law and other Thomson Reuters products and initiatives in alignment with market practice, customer needs, and business objectives, using a variety of evolving tools, formats, and content development methods.
Monitoring legal, practice, and market developments impacting startups to ensure personal skills and expertise and that our content remains relevant and accurate.
Using your legal expertise to support the development of customer-focused AI-powered tools, including identifying and implementing methods that address the intersection of content development and AI-driven legal solutions.
Partnering with Product Management to innovate on tech development, product enhancements, and the integration of AI into TR's offerings.
Using your legal expertise and writing skills to support the development and application of internal AI editorial tools.
Establishing and maintaining relationships with external law firm contributors and industry groups to ensure content reflects market practice and meets customer needs.
Supporting sales, marketing, and other parts of the business, including responding to customer inquiries.
You’re a fit for the role of Senior Specialist Legal Editor in Practical Law,, if your background includes
JD required.
Minimum of eight (8) years' experience working as a lawyer in a law firm or in-house with a significant amount of experience working with startup companies.
Strong technical skills and the ability to effectively utilize various tools, including generative AI technologies, to enhance productivity and accuracy.
Demonstrated adaptability and flexibility to work on diverse projects and tasks within the generative AI space as well as new and emerging technologies.
Deep curiosity about the increasing intersection of AI and legal practice, with a desire to build legal prompt engineering skills and innovative content development methods that optimize AI responses for specific legal tasks.
Understand current market issues and proposals to enact, amend, or change laws and regulations impacting US startups.
Understand the needs and priorities of law firm attorneys, in-house counsel, and other startups professionals.
Skill and passion for writing and the ability to write about complex legal issues clearly and concisely in plain English.
Innovative, agile thinker with excellent time management, organizational skills, and demonstrated project management.
Enthusiasm for working on a dynamic editorial team, comfortable working in an environment of rapid change, and a passion for exploring how AI can revolutionize editorial content creation.
This role can be located out of a home office anywhere in the United States if the candidate does not live near a Thomson Reuters office.
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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.
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. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
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.
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Thomson Reuters (TSX/NDAQ: TRI) 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. For more information on Thomson Reuters, visit tr.com and for the latest world news, reuters.com.
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