Reporter (Legal Business)

Randstad (Schweiz) AG; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a dynamic reporter to join its Legal Business team. This role involves crafting insightful content about law firms and in-house lawyers, contributing to the firm's reputation in the legal sector. You'll engage with legal professionals, produce editorial pieces, and represent the company at prestigious events. If you have a passion for legal affairs and a knack for storytelling, this is your chance to make a significant impact in a vibrant and competitive environment. Join a team that values innovation and collaboration in the heart of London's legal landscape!

Qualifications

• Experience in journalism or writing, particularly in legal topics.
• Ability to understand complex legal issues and convey them clearly.

Responsibilities

• Write daily/weekly editorial content on law firms and legal topics.
• Build relationships with law firm management and PRs.
• Represent the company at industry events.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Networking skills

Strong writing skills

Curiosity about the legal market

Team player

Job description

About us:

LegalBusiness is a market-leading provider of news and content within the legal world across the world's key financial centres. Powered by Legal500, LegalBusiness combines top-class journalism alongside global law firm and client data from Legal500, which means we provide highly-respected insight across the legal landscape.

Job purpose:

The job of a reporter on the Legal Business team involves writing about law firms, in-house lawyers and other subjects of relevance to the legal profession. This contribution plays a crucial role in helping to meet L500 corporate ambitions of boosting relations with the leading UK and global law firms as well as the biggest in-house legal teams via insightful market commentary and access to industry leaders.

Reporters cover a specific group of law firms and industry sectors and are expected to build relationships with law firm management, partners and PRs at those firms to build up an understanding of their business.

Reporters will also represent the company at internal and external events, including the Legal Business awards, considered the 'Oscars' of the legal business world!

Core responsibilities:

1. Writing daily/weekly editorial content on law firms – news, features, analysis and interviews
2. Coming up with ideas for and getting involved in video content
3. Coming up with regular news leads and other ideas for content on a weekly basis
4. Talking to lawyers and other professionals to build up an understanding of the legal market
5. Involvement in company events – interacting with panellists and helping with event organisation
6. Online production – uploading and publishing content to weekly deadlines

What we're looking for:

1. Strong communication and networking skills, particularly in the senior lawyer/partner space
2. A natural desire to break stories ahead of our competition
3. Strong writing skills with an eye on deadlines
4. Ability and desire to speak to partners on a daily basis about a range of topics, even those that are sensitive
5. Curiosity and an interest in the commercial legal market and the business world
6. A collaborator and a team player
7. Reporters need to gain a good understanding of what makes news and is interesting to our readers
8. Interest in business news in general and the legal market specifically and ability to build understanding

Working arrangements:

Hybrid - 3 days a week in the office on Fleet Street

Interview process:

1. First stage - call with internal recruiter at Legal 500
2. Second stage - written task (virtual)
3. Third stage - face-to-face interview with Editorial Director