Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law Finance

Thomson Reuters; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Specialist Legal Editor to enrich its Practical Law Finance team. This role offers the opportunity to utilize your legal expertise in finance to create and maintain high-quality content that meets the needs of legal professionals. You'll engage in diverse editorial tasks, collaborate with seasoned colleagues, and contribute to the development of cutting-edge legal resources. With a hybrid work model and a commitment to employee well-being, this position not only supports your professional growth but also empowers you to make a meaningful impact in the legal industry.

Benefits

Flexible Work Arrangements

Career Development Programs

Comprehensive Benefit Plans

Mental Health Days Off

Paid Volunteer Days

Access to Headspace App

Retirement Savings

Tuition Reimbursement

Qualifications

• Substantial post qualification experience as a finance lawyer.
• Demonstrable interest and ability in writing with attention to detail.
• In-house experience in financial institutions.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain high-quality legal content for online publication.
• Review and edit content from internal and external sources.
• Develop relationships with third parties for content contributions.

Skills

Finance Law

Legal Writing

Attention to Detail

General Lending Transactions

Leveraged Finance

Funds

Private Finance

Education

Qualified Lawyer (England & Wales)

Job description

Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law Finance

We are seeking an experienced Finance lawyer to join the Practical Law Finance team in the UK.

Practical Law is a leading online know-how service providing rigorous, peer-reviewed resources, such as practice notes, current awareness and standard documents 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.

About The Role

As a Senior Specialist Legal Editor in Practical Law, you will use your specialist legal knowledge of Finance to provide and maintain a wide range of Practical Law content. Working in a supportive team of highly experienced colleagues, you will deal with a breadth of interesting legal and editorial work including:

• Creating well-written, up to date content for online publication that reflects current law and practice and is of the quality and scope to meet business objectives and customer needs
• Reviewing and editing content written by others, both internally and externally
• Maintaining all content for which you are responsible to ensure it is up-to-date and continues to be of the quality and scope that meets business objectives and customer needs
• Developing relationships with third parties with a view to obtaining contributions of content or improving content through third party insights into law or practice

In addition to this, the Senior Specialist Legal Editor will:

• Assist with developing and marketing the Practical Law Finance practice areas
• Support our colleagues in developing products that combine our content with new technologies including AI.

We can discuss part-time 4 days or full-time 5 days for this role.

About You

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

• Substantial post qualification experience (England & Wales) as a lawyer specialising in finance law and transactions. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience ofgeneral lending transactions, leveraged finance, funds or private finance.
• A demonstrable interest and ability in writing with excellent attention to detail.
• In-house experience in one or more financial institutions.

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

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.