Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law Private Client

Thomas Reuters; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking team as a Senior Specialist Legal Editor, where your expertise in Scots law private client matters will shape the future of legal knowledge. You'll create and maintain essential resources that empower legal professionals to work smarter. This role offers a unique opportunity to engage with a variety of legal and editorial tasks, collaborating with a diverse team to deliver high-quality content. Be part of an organization committed to transparency, inclusivity, and innovation, and help redefine how knowledge professionals operate in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Substantial post qualification experience in Scots law private client matters.
• Demonstrable interest and ability in writing legal content.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain a wide range of Practical Law content.
• Collaborate with the Private Client team and engage with customers.

Skills

Scots law private client expertise

Writing ability

Knowledge of trusts and estates law

Dual-qualification in England and Wales

Education

Law degree

Job description

Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law Private Client (Scots Law)

We are seeking an experienced Scots Private Client lawyer to join the Practical Law Private Client 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 Private Client (Scots law) you will use your specialist knowledge of advising on private client matters in Scotland 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 new and maintaining existing materials spanning a variety of formats.
• Commissioning, reviewing and editing content written internally and externally.
• Working collaboratively with the wider Private Client team and engaging with customers.
• Engaging with 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 in Scots law private client.
• Dual-qualification England and Wales (E&W) or at least with significant knowledge and experience of E&W law private client.
• A demonstrable interest and ability in writing.
• In-depth understanding of trusts and estates law.

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.