Attorney Editor

Attorney Editor, US Legal Commentary

Do you enjoy delivering high-quality content? Join our Global Legal Commentary team and work closely with distinguished authors to source, create, edit, and maintain high-quality legal content for various platforms including Westlaw, print, and Proview. This role is pivotal in upholding our world-class Commentary collection through effective relationship management, adherence to deadlines, and showcasing strong editorial skills. This is an entry-level hybrid position requiring in-office work 2 days per week, located in Minneapolis-St. Paul (Eagan) (preferred) or Dallas (Frisco).

About The Role

In this opportunity as Attorney Editor you will:

• Editorial Responsibility
• Source, review, and maintain commentary content within the assigned portfolio, in alignment with the content strategy as defined by the Product Management team.
• Manage third-party content relationships and liaise closely with partner departments to ensure the successful delivery of content.
• Adhere to editorial publishing schedules and quality standards.
• Verify the accuracy and completeness of your work and that of others.
• Maintain and develop legal knowledge and skills to stay current on legal trends and developments.
• Monitor market developments and changing needs to support the creation and updating of content.
• Support specific online, print, and Proview product workflows, projects, and initiatives where required.
• Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing
• Create, edit, and update secondary legal content, including practice tips, highlights, and other features.
• Identify and organize key legal issues in editorial materials while showcasing expertise in Westlaw navigation and online research tools.
• Coordinate, quality control, and manage value-add content such as index updates, publication notes, and associated legal research to agreed schedules.
• Collaboration and Development
• Understand the roles and responsibilities of each team member and how they impact production.
• Understand and prioritize work, demonstrating competence in company-specific systems necessary for job functions.
• Communicate clearly and effectively with all contacts, both within and outside the organization.
• Work effectively as part of a larger team, participating in team meetings and the employee evaluation process.
• Collaborate with others to problem solve and facilitate successful delivery against goals/OKRs, lending domain expertise and supporting author relations where required.
• Develop knowledge of Thomson Reuters Legal publications and products, as well as those of competitors.
  
  
  

About You:

You are a fit for the role of Attorney Editor if your background includes:

• A J.D. degree from an accredited law school (Required).
• Law review or journal experience (Preferred).
• Experience practicing law in Texas (Preferred).
• Exceptional written and verbal English communication skills.
• A self-starter attitude with strong legal research and writing skills.
• The capability to interpret, analyze, organize, and communicate complex legal material effectively.
• Analytical thinking skills with a collaborative approach to problem-solving.
• The ability to make quality decisions quickly and decisively.
• Proficiency with personal computers, word processing, and online applications.
• Ability to both work independently and collaborate with others.
• Attention to detail, strong time management and organizational skills, and the ability to juggle competing deadlines, adapt to changing priorities and deadlines, and escalate where appropriate.
  
  
  

Join us to make a significant impact on the legal community by delivering top-tier commentary content across the globe.

What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• 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
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet 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.
  
  
  

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

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 that celebrate diversity and inclusion. 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.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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