Senior Counsel, Reuters

Refinitiv; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Counsel to support its global media operations. This unique opportunity involves negotiating complex media and technology deals while providing innovative legal advice on pressing multijurisdictional issues. The role requires collaboration with leadership across various locations, ensuring compliance with established principles and tracking legal developments impacting the media landscape. Join a forward-thinking firm that values diversity, inclusion, and the pursuit of justice, and be part of a culture that fosters professional growth and work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible Work Arrangements

Comprehensive Benefit Plans

Mental Health Days Off

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Incentive Programs

LinkedIn Learning Access

Paid Volunteer Days

Social Impact Initiatives

Qualifications

• Current practicing lawyer with a bar admission.
• Experience in media licensing and advising clients in tech industries.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate media licensing and partnership deals.
• Provide legal advice on issues across the media business.

Skills

Commercial Law

Media Licensing Negotiation

Intellectual Property Law

AI/ML Understanding

Multijurisdictional Legal Advice

Education

Law Degree

Job description

Senior Counsel, Reuters

Thomson Reuters is hiring a global media lawyer to support Reuters News. This is a unique role, with the successful candidate being an experienced commercial lawyer who is able to negotiate complex media/technology deals as well as provide creative legal advice on thorny multijurisdictional issues often at the intersection of journalism and AI. This role will work closely with Reuters leadership in New York and London, and in coordination with Thomson Reuters lawyers and staff around the world and can be located in London (or Toronto or New York).

Thomson Reuters provides legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals with the tools and information they need to empower people and decision-making. Its media business, Reuters, is the world’s leading international news agency, reaching more than one billion people every day and delivering real-time, award-winning news coverage to news and media organizations, brands and consumers. Reuters covers a broad range of topics, including business, finance, politics, sports and technology. The hallmarks of Reuters’ journalism are speed, impartiality and insight.

About The Role

As Senior Counsel for Reuters, your primary responsibility will be to support the growth of relationships between Reuters and its clients and partners in a fast-evolving, global environment. Responsibilities will also include n egotiating media licensing and partnership deals ; p roviding timely , clear and practical advice on legal issues across the media business; supporting business stakeholder s in analysing novel technologies and use cases through a legal lens; e nsuring compliance with the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles, which reflect our commitment to integrity, independence and freedom from bias ; and t rack ing global legal developments affecting the interests of news and media businesses.

About you

You're a fit for the role of Senior Counsel, Reuters if you :

• Are a c urrent practicing lawyer ( with a current bar admission/practising certificate).
• Have s ubstantial post-qualification experience negotiating media licensing deals and advising clients in news/media/information/technology industries.
• Have the ability to advocate for the interests of business partners in commercial disputes.
• Have a depth and breadth of experience in acting in intellectual property matters, especially copyright, including experience counselling on enforcement of IP rights.
• Are a daptable and prepared to contribute to areas outside core expertise .
• Have a strong work ethic with ability to work independently, prioritize and meet deadlines and demands in a fast-paced environment.

It would also be desirable if you have:

• Understanding of AI/ML technologies.
• Experience communicating across diverse geographies and cultures as part of a global team.

What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• 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.
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet 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.

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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

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.

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