Legal Publisher

Thomson Reuters is a leading provider of trusted content and technology, and they are seeking a Legal Publisher to join their Global Legal Commentary team. This role involves sourcing, creating, editing, and maintaining high-quality legal content for various platforms 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
• Practice experience or legal editorial experience, or equivalent, strongly preferred
• 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
• Bilingual in French/English is preferred but not mandatory

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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