Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law Employment

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

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Specialist Legal Editor to join their Practical Law Employment team. This role offers an opportunity to leverage your expertise in Employment law to create and maintain high-quality legal resources. Collaborate with a supportive team while engaging with industry experts and customers to stay updated on legal trends. With a flexible hybrid work model and a commitment to career development, this position is designed for those who want to make a real impact in the legal field.

Benefits

Flexible Hybrid Work Model

Career Development Programs

Comprehensive Benefits

Mental Health Days Off

Paid Volunteer Days Off

Qualifications

• Substantial post qualification experience as an Employment lawyer.
• Demonstrable interest in writing and legal analysis.

Responsibilities

• Analyse Employment law developments and create new materials.
• Commission and edit content, answering legal questions from subscribers.

Skills

Employment Law

Legal Writing

Regulatory Analysis

Education

Law Degree

Job description

Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law Employment

We are seeking an experienced Employment law practitioner (e.g. solicitor, barrister, legal executive) to join the Practical Law Employment team in the UK on a 12 month fixed term contract.

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 advising on Employment law matters 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:

• Analysing the latest Employment law, regulatory and policy developments, deciding which items to cover and to what extent
• Creating new and maintaining existing materials spanning a variety of formats including standalone and comparative resources
• Commissioning, reviewing and editing content written internally and externally
• Answering legal questions submitted by subscribers through the Ask service
• Meeting with external customers and industry experts to maintain and build understanding of the latest trends and pressures in Employment law and practice

In addition to this, a Senior Specialist Legal Editor will assist:

• With marketing the Practical Law Employment practice area and engaging with customers
• The wider Thomson Reuters editorial teams, liaising with sales, marketing, product management, technology and segment functions where necessary

About you

The successful candidate is likely to have:

• Substantial post qualification experience (England & Wales) as an Employment lawyer in either a law firm or in-house
• A demonstrable interest and ability in writing
• In-depth understanding of Employment law and extensive experience in advising on Employment matters

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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.

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