Reporter - Law.Com

Law Business Research; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Eye care

Pension (employer contribution)

Life assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Wellbeing allowance

Private healthcare

Company socials

Mentoring scheme

Volunteering Day

Work from anywhere (2 weeks)

Generous parental leave

Job summary

Centellic seeks an ambitious reporter to explore the world’s largest law firms, uncovering exclusive stories and data-driven insights that illuminate the business of law. You will build strong sources, analyze firm performance, and craft compelling enterprise journalism with clear, data-backed storytelling.

You’ll develop feature and analysis pieces, create engaging visuals, and collaborate across a global newsroom to deliver authoritative coverage that informs readers and industry professionals

Qualifications

• Several years of reporting experience, ideally in legal, financial, business, or professional services.
• Strong track record of breaking news and exclusive stories.
• Excellent source-building and trust with high-level contacts.
• Strong news judgment in a fast-moving environment.
• Comfort with data cleaning, analysis, and interpretation for journalism.
• Experience with data visualization tools like Tableau, Flourish, Datawrapper.

Responsibilities

• Break news and deliver exclusives on the world’s largest law firms.
• Build and maintain a network of sources across law firms and market insiders.
• Cover developments including leadership changes, finances, compensation, hiring, mergers and strategy.
• Use data to identify story ideas and support reporting.
• Analyze datasets related to firm performance, headcount, revenue and trends.
• Create charts, graphics, and visual storytelling elements.
• Produce a mix of breaking news, enterprise, analysis, and features.
• Collaborate with editors to shape authoritative coverage.

Skills

Reporting experience

Source-building

Data visualization

Writing & interviewing

Legal/business reporting

Analytical mindset

Education

Journalism degree

Tools

Tableau

Flourish

Datawrapper

Job description

The Team

Law.com is a fast-growing and highly successful publication featuring news and analysis of the global legal industry. Our reporting combines investigative rigor with commercial awareness to help our audience make better strategic decisions.

We have a network of reporters, correspondents and editors across 14 countries, all of whom are energetic, dynamic, upbeat individuals who work hard on producing excellent off-diary journalism.

The Role

We're seeking an ambitious reporter to look under the hood of the world’s biggest law firms. This role is ideal for a journalist who thrives on delving into data, landing exclusives, and producing deeply reported stories on the business of law. The successful candidate will know how to build relationships with sophisticated professionals, is at home working with data, and can track major developments across elite global firms like leadership and structural changes, to strategy shifts, partner pay, lawyer well-being, financial performance, talent wars, and market expansion.

Data is a big part of this role. You'll be at home finding stories in numbers, analyzing firm performance, and using data visualization tools to make complex information clear and compelling for readers. We are looking for someone who can combine source-driven reporting with analytical rigor and a passion for data to produce scoops, trend stories, and visually engaging enterprise journalism.

What You’ll Do

• Break news and deliver exclusives on the world’s largest law firms and the business forces shaping them.
• Build and maintain a strong network of sources across law firms, legal industry consultants, recruiters, and other market insiders.
• Cover key developments including leadership changes, law firm finances, compensation, hiring, mergers, strategy, and client trends.
• Use data to identify story ideas, support reporting, and add depth to coverage.
• Analyze datasets related to law firm performance, headcount, revenue, profitability, expansion, and market trends.
• Create or collaborate on charts, graphics, and other visual storytelling elements that help readers understand the story quickly.
• Produce a mix of breaking news, enterprise, analysis, and feature stories.
• Work closely with editors and colleagues across the newsroom to shape coverage that is authoritative, competitive, and distinctive.

What We’re Looking For

• Several years of reporting experience, ideally covering legal, financial, business, or professional services sectors.
• A strong track record of breaking news and developing exclusive stories.
• Excellent source-building skills and the ability to cultivate trust with high-level industry contacts.
• Strong news judgment and the ability to spot what matters in a fast-moving, competitive environment.
• Comfort working with data, including cleaning, analyzing, and interpreting datasets for journalism.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Flourish, Datawrapper, or similar platforms.
• Ability to turn complex financial or operational information into clear, engaging stories.
• Strong writing, reporting, and interviewing skills, with close attention to accuracy and detail.
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to work effectively across a digital newsroom.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience covering the legal industry or major professional services firms.
• Familiarity with law firm financial metrics, rankings, and the global legal market.
• Experience using spreadsheets, database tools, and visualization platforms to support reporting.
• Interest in combining traditional beat reporting with investigative and data-driven journalism.

About Centellic

Centellic stands at the center of the markets it serves, empowering organizations with indispensable data and insight to make critical decisions on growth, risk and opportunity.

Through proprietary data, deep market expertise and AI-enabled technology, our platforms are embedded in client workflows. That capability is underpinned by our events, which bring the market together to share perspective and deepen understanding of the issues shaping each sector. Together, they give organizations earlier visibility of emerging trends, and the clarity and confidence to act when decisions matter.

At Centellic, we’re a global intelligence and information services business, setting the standard for how critical business decisions are made.

Why Centellic?

At Centellic, we help our clients make better decisions, and our people are at the heart of that work. Every individual plays an important role in this, bringing curiosity and high standards to everything they do.

Those who thrive here take ownership, care deeply about their work and are committed to excellence. Standards are high because our people set them that way. And while we have decades of expertise, we are still growing, pushing and building something extraordinary.

Centellic’s advantage is our people and the culture we’ve created together. It’s an environment where individuality is encouraged, relationships are genuine, and there’s a strong sense of purpose in what we’re building together. Collaborative, respectful and driven, we take our work seriously without taking ourselves too seriously.

Benefits

Our people are our most valuable asset, as such, we offer a wide range of benefits to help ensure that all are supported:

Start of employment:

• Eye care
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A day off for your birthday

After 3 months employment:

• Pension (4% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution)

After 4 months employment:

• Life assurance

After probation:

• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• £350 annual wellbeing allowance to contribute to gym memberships or fitness classes
• Puregym access
• Perks at work platform access

After 1 year service:

• Private healthcare

Additional Perks:

• Company socials
• Access to Employee Affinity Networks
• Mentoring scheme
• Volunteering Day
• Mortgage Advice
• Work from anywhere (2 weeks)
• Generous parental leave

We are committed to making our organisation an inclusive, respectful & engaging place to work with a culture shaped by our core values that promote equality, collaboration & respect in everything we do. We are proud to be part of the Disability Confident Scheme, meaning we are committed to being inclusive and accessible, which starts with our application and recruitment process. If you do require any reasonable adjustments to be made, please let us know as part of our application page.

‘We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that all candidates are given the same opportunity to succeed regardless of their sex, gender identity/expression or reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age or disability.’