Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law Finance & DCM

Thomson Reuters; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a Senior Specialist Legal Editor to join their dynamic team. This role involves using your expertise in Capital Markets and Finance to create and maintain high-quality legal content. You'll collaborate with experienced colleagues and engage in a variety of editorial tasks, including content creation and review. The position offers a flexible hybrid working model, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life effectively. With a commitment to career development and a supportive work culture, this opportunity is perfect for those passionate about making a real impact in the legal field.

Benefits

Flexible Hybrid Work Model

Career Development Programs

Comprehensive Benefit Plans

Mental Health Days Off

Flexible Vacation

Employee Incentive Programs

Access to Headspace App

Paid Volunteer Days Off

Qualifications

• Substantial post qualification experience as a lawyer specializing in debt capital markets.
• Demonstrable interest and ability in writing with excellent attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Create well-written, up-to-date content for online publication reflecting current law.
• Review and edit content written by others to ensure quality and accuracy.

Skills

Debt Capital Markets

Derivatives

Structured Finance

Legal Writing

Attention to Detail

Education

Qualified Lawyer (England & Wales)

Job description

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Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law Finance and Capital Markets

We are seeking an experienced Debt Capital Markets (Derivatives or Structured Finance) lawyer to join the Practical Law Finance and Capital Markets 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 Capital Markets and Finance 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
• Reviewing and editing content written by others, both 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 Capital Markets and Finance practice areas
• Support our colleagues in developing products that combine our content with new technologies including AI.
  
  
  

We can discuss 4 days or full time 5 days for this role.

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 debt capital markets, derivatives or structured finance.
• A demonstrable interest and ability in writing with excellent attention to detail.
• In-house experience in one or more financial institutions.
  
  
  

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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