Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law Private Client

Refinitiv; London; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Specialist Legal Editor to enhance its Practical Law Private Client team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to leverage your Scots law expertise in creating and maintaining vital legal resources. You will work alongside a supportive team, engaging in diverse editorial tasks and collaborating with various departments to ensure high-quality content delivery. Join a forward-thinking organization that values work-life balance and fosters professional growth, while making a meaningful impact on the legal profession and society at large.

Benefits

Flexible vacation

Mental Health Days Off

Work from another location

Headspace app subscription

Tuition reimbursement

Employee incentive programs

LinkedIn Learning access

Paid volunteer days

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain Practical Law content on private client matters.
• Collaborate with internal and external legal teams.

Skills

Scots law private client expertise

Legal writing

Trusts and estates law

Dual-qualification in England and Wales

Education

Law Degree

Tools

Practical Law resources

LinkedIn Learning

Job description

Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law Private Client

Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law Private Client

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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.

What's in it For You?

• 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.

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.