Senior Lawyer Editor - PL Canada - Insolvency/Restructuring

Thomas Reuters; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Senior Specialist Legal Editor focusing on insolvency and restructuring law. You will create and maintain resources for legal professionals, ensuring accuracy and relevance in a fast-paced environment while collaborating in a hybrid work model to enhance legal services.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working environment

Comprehensive benefit plans

Career development opportunities

Mental health support

Paid volunteer days

Qualifications

• Call to the Bar from a Canadian common law province or territory.
• Minimum of 8 years' experience in insolvency law.
• Extensive commercial insolvency expertise.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain legal content for insolvency and restructuring.
• Draft and edit original insolvency resources and documents.
• Monitor legal developments in insolvency law.

Skills

Attention to detail

Legal research

Writing skills

Editing skills

Knowledge of insolvency law

Education

J.D. or LL.B.

Tools

Legal writing tools

Job description

Practical Law Canada - Insolvency & Restructuring Senior Specialist Legal Editor

Role Summary:

Practical Law Canada is looking for an Insolvency & Restructuring Editor who has a passion for research and writing on legal topics to create lawyer-specific resources for our Canadian Insolvency & Restructuring Service.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Senior Specialist Legal Editor, you will:

• Develop and maintain insolvency and restructuring legal-know how content to be published on Practical Law’s online services.
• Conceptualize, draft, and edit a wide range of original insolvency resources, including annotated standard form documents, practice notes, and checklists in accordance with Practical Law writing style.
• Help set the strategic direction and drive the content plan for Practical Law insolvency and restructuring resources to meet the practice needs of lawyers working at law firms and in-house.
• Maintain current awareness and monitor legal developments and legal practice trends in insolvency law and financial restructurings, with the goal of ensuring coverage is current, accurate, and relevant.
• Establish and maintain relationships with external law firm contributors providing insolvency resources.
• Develop relationships with law firm lawyers, in-house counsel, and industry groups to ensure that the insolvency content is topical and meets their needs.
• Support AI initiatives, including training AI for use in products and validating model performance.
• Assist in the editorial development of Practical Law and Thomson Reuters products.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Senior Specialist Legal Editor if your background includes:

• Call to the Bar from a Canadian common law province or territory (J.D. or LL.B.).
• Minimum of eight (8) years’ experience practicing as a lawyer concentrating in commercial insolvency and restructuring in a law firm and/or corporate law department.
• Extensive commercial insolvency expertise in out-of-court restructurings, proceedings under the CCAA, receiverships, proposals, and bankruptcies, including:
  • Representation of debtors in complex cases.
  • Representation of a diverse range of creditors, such as secured creditors, unsecured creditors, landlords, employees, and trade creditors.
  • Structuring, negotiating, and documenting restructuring transactions, such as interim financing (DIP) agreements, restructuring support agreements, plans of arrangements, proposals, sales and investment solicitation process documents, reverse vesting transactions, purchase and sale transactions within insolvency proceedings, and other insolvency transactional documents.
  • Substantive familiarity with commercial list practice and procedure.
• Deep knowledge and understanding of the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.
• Enthusiasm and ambition, with a desire to improve the efficiency of legal services, including through AI.
• A strong understanding of the needs and priorities of law firm and in-house counsel and the legal market.
• Ability to understand and interpret fundamental workings and trends within a target industry.
• Skill and passion for writing and good editing skills, including:
  • Close attention to detail.
  • Impressive command of grammar, punctuation, and plain English.
  • Strong technical drafting skills.
  • The ability to write about complex legal issues clearly and simply.
• Self-motivated with excellent management and organization skills to effectively track productivity and ensure product development milestones are met.
• The ability to continuously collaborate with and support team members in a hybrid and/or remote environment and operate efficiently in a remote environment without on-site technical support.

Candidates selected for a second interview will be required to submit a writing sample.

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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.

About Us

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