Senior Editor, Practical Law Restructuring & Insolvency

Thomas Reuters; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a Senior Specialist Legal Editor to join their Practical Law team. This role involves using your legal expertise in Restructuring and Insolvency to create and maintain high-quality content that meets the needs of legal professionals. You will work closely with a team of experienced colleagues, contributing to a breadth of interesting legal and editorial tasks. The company offers a supportive work environment, promoting a culture of continuous learning and professional growth. If you are passionate about the law and want to make a significant impact, this is a perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible Vacation

Mental Health Days Off

Access to Headspace App

Retirement Savings

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Incentive Programs

Resources for Wellbeing

Paid Volunteer Days Off

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Restructuring & Insolvency law required.
• Strong writing skills and attention to detail are essential.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain high-quality legal content for online publication.
• Review and edit content while collaborating with third parties.

Skills

Restructuring & Insolvency Law

Legal Writing

Attention to Detail

Cross-Border Insolvency Issues

Education

Post Qualification Experience as Lawyer

Job description

Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law Restructuring & Insolvency

We are seeking an experienced Restructuring & Insolvency lawyer to join the Practical Law R&I 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 Restructuring and Insolvency law and transactions 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
• Commissioning, reviewing and editing content written 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 Restructuring & Insolvency practice area
• Support marketing and sales and all other parts of the business to ensure delivery of business objectives, including engaging with customers

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 Restructuring & Insolvency: we are looking for candidates with a broad range of experience of non-contentious corporate insolvency and are particularly interested in candidates with experience of corporate insolvency proceedings including administrations, company voluntary arrangements and insolvent schemes of arrangement and restructuring plans, company dissolution and restoration, as well as experience in advising directors and other stakeholders in the run-up to formal insolvency.
• Experience of cross-border insolvency issues from an English law perspective.
• A demonstrable interest and ability in writing with excellent attention to detail.

What’s in it For You?

• Industry-Leading 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.
• 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, and hybrid model, 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 skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.
• 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.
• 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.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

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 that celebrate diversity and inclusion. 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.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.