Attorney Editor

Thomson Reuters; Manila; Hybrid; PHP 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Flexibility & Work-Life Balance

Career Development and Growth

Industry Competitive Benefits

Culture and inclusion

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking an Attorney Editor to distill complex procedural law into clear, actionable content for customers. You will analyze laws and deadlines across jurisdictions, draft and maintain rules sets for calendaring, and ensure high editorial quality.

The role emphasizes strong legal research, meticulous attention to detail, and collaboration with global teams. A JD and US-litigation familiarity are preferred, with a hybrid work model supporting work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school or equivalent.
• Experience with US litigation and related procedures is preferred.
• Strong analytical and research skills with sound judgment and discretion.
• Ability to interpret, organize, and communicate complex legal materials.

Responsibilities

• Analyze procedural laws, statutes, court rules, and orders across jurisdictions to identify deadlines and provide legal interpretation.
• Draft, review, and maintain hierarchical rules sets for legal calendaring and ensure accuracy.
• Develop and maintain legal knowledge, write event narratives, calculations, and citations for deadlines and requirements.

Skills

Juris Doctorate

US litigation

Attention to detail

Legal research

Microsoft 365

Adobe apps

Strong communicator

Education

Juris Doctorate

Tools

Microsoft 365

Adobe apps

Job description

Are you a legal professional with a sharp eye for detail and a passion for precision in procedural law? Do you thrive on the challenge of distilling complex legal information into clear, actionable insights? Join our team as an Attorney Editor and leverage your expertise to shape the legal landscape for our customers.

About The Role

• Analyze procedural laws, statutes, court rules, administrative orders and standing orders at multiple jurisdictional levels to identify and isolate docketable deadlines and to provide legal interpretation through analysis and research to develop and review content for customers
• Drafts, reviews, and maintains hierarchical rules sets used for legal calendaring in various jurisdictions and subject matters, and adheres to editorial publishing schedules and quality standards as required for accuracy and completeness
• Maintain and develop legal knowledge and skills as needed to complete your work and to stay current on legal trends and developments. This includes writing clear, consistent, and comprehensive event narratives, calculations, and legal citations for deadlines and procedural requirements.
• Documents decisions regarding inclusion/exclusion of deadlines, and maintains detailed records of sources and rationale
• Demonstrate competence on company-specific systems, including customized editorial systems, periodic review of released rules sets to incorporate amendments, modifications, and new legal and procedural requirements.
• Adhere to editorial publishing schedules and quality standards as required for accuracy and completeness

About You

• Have a Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited law school or other equivalent, relevant legal training.
• Experience with US litigation, including familiarity with related procedures and deadlines preferred.
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills, using sound judgment, logic, and discretion to collaborate effectively with global teammates and solve complex problems.
• Self-starter with aptitude for legal research and analysis; have the ability to interpret, analyze, organize, and communicate complex legal materials
• Are comfortable with personal computers and familiar with word processing and online applications including the Microsoft 365 suite of apps and Adobe apps.
• Are a strong, proactive, and assertive communicator who can speak and write clearly and effectively with all contacts, both in and outside Thomson Reuters, across the globe.

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.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 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. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.