Legal Publisher

Thomson Reuters; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 52,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global information solutions provider is seeking a Legal Publisher - Commentary to create and maintain high-quality legal content. This entry-level role requires a law degree and strong editorial skills. The candidate will manage relationships and ensure timely delivery of legal commentary for various platforms. This position offers a hybrid work model with flexible policies to support work-life balance, alongside competitive benefits for career development and wellbeing.

Benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Comprehensive benefit plans

Employee development programs

Mental health support

Qualifications

• Law degree required, practice or legal editorial experience preferred.
• Self-starter with aptitude for legal research and writing.
• Ability to interpret and communicate complex legal material.

Responsibilities

• Source and maintain legal commentary content.
• Manage relationships for publishing schedules.
• Stay current with legal trends and developments.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Legal research

Strong communication

Content editing

Relationship management

Education

Law degree from an accredited law school

Tools

Westlaw

Microsoft Office 365

Job description

Replacement: This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs.

Legal Publisher - Commentary

Join our Global Legal Commentary team to source, create, edit, and maintain high-quality legal content for platforms like Westlaw, print, and Proview. This entry-level role requires strong editorial skills and effective relationship management to maintain our world-class Commentary collection. The position is hybrid, requiring in-office work 1 day per week. It is available in Toronto or Montreal.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Legal Publisher Commentary you will:

• 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, ensuring 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.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Legal Publisher Commentary if you have/are:

• 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.

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

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.

Our use of AI within the recruitment process Thomson Reuters utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our global recruitment process. Unless you opt-out, our AI system will assess the information provided by you and compare it to the requirements listed for the role, and present the result to our recruitment personnel for further review. The AI system acts as a supporting tool, but there is always a human making the decision if you will be considered for the role.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $52,900 CAD - $98,200 CAD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

About Us

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.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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