Attorney Editor (Current Awareness)

Reuters; Manila; Hybrid; PHP 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Career development

Mental health days

Tuition reimbursement

Volunteer days

Job summary

Reuters is seeking an Attorney Editor to write and edit current awareness content for Westlaw Today, covering energy, environment, corporate finance, and securities. You will research, write, and publish timely legal analysis for practitioners and develop sources across practice areas while meeting tight deadlines in a hybrid Manila-based role.

The ideal candidate holds a Juris Doctor, has strong editing and AP style skills, and can explain complex legal issues clearly.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor degree and experience writing/analyzing legal content.
• Superior writing and editing skills with attention to detail.
• Experience in legal journalism, news, or similar writing environment.
• Familiarity with Associated Press style.
• Ability to write about complex legal issues clearly and simply.

Responsibilities

• Research, write, and edit high-quality articles daily.
• Prioritize concurrent projects to meet deadlines.
• Analyze and anticipate interests of a targeted professional audience.
• Identify key court, regulatory and transactional documents.
• Develop and maintain contacts with members of the legal community in assigned focus areas.
• Assist with online publishing tasks, including assigning topics, linking, and reviewing published content.
• Use multiple applications and content management systems to perform assigned tasks.
• Work with colleagues and other departments globally to foster company goals.
• Contribute to product development as needed.
• Regularly use AI solutions in your day-to-day work and contribute to development and refinement of AI tools.
• Perform legal research using Westlaw, CoCounsel, and systems.

Skills

Writing

Editing

AP style

Analytical thinking

Legal journalism

Education

Juris Doctor

Tools

Westlaw

CoCounsel

Job description

## Attorney Editor (Current Awareness)Applyremote type: Hybridlocations: Philippines, Manilatime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todaytime left to apply: End Date: September 30, 2026 (30+ days left to apply)job requisition id: JREQ202578**Attorney Editor - Current Awareness**Thomson Reuters is seeking an Attorney Editor to write and edit current awareness content for Westlaw Today for legal practitioners across a broad range of practice areas that may include energy, environment, bankruptcy, antitrust, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, securities or related topics. The Attorney Editor will research, write and publish timely legal analysis articles on developments related to corporate transactions, litigation, legislation and regulation.**About the Role** In this opportunity as **Attorney Editor**, you will:* Research, write, and edit high-quality articles daily.* Prioritize concurrent projects to meet challenging deadlines.* Analyze and anticipate interests of a targeted professional audience.* Identify key court, regulatory and transactional documents.* Develop and maintain contacts with members of the legal community in assigned focus areas.* Assist with online publishing tasks, including assigning topics, linking, and reviewing published content.* Use multiple applications and content management systems to perform assigned tasks.* Work with colleagues and other departments globally to foster company goals.* Contribute to product development as needed.* Regularly use AI solutions in your day-to-day work and contribute to development and refinement of AI tools.* Perform legal research using Westlaw, CoCounsel, and systems.**About You** You're a fit for the role of **Attorney Editor** if your background includes:* A Juris Doctor and experience writing and analyzing legal content related to energy, environment, corporate transactions, bankruptcy, antitrust, corporate finance, or securities.* Superior writing and editing skills, with a keen eye for detail and accuracy.* Experience in legal journalism, news, or other writing environment.* Familiarity with Associated Press style.* Ability to write about complex legal issues clearly and simply.* Proven news judgment and analytical ability.* Experience using online legal research platforms such as Thomson Reuters Westlaw.* Ability to quickly learn and master new technologies.* Ability to prioritize concurrent projects and adhere to challenging deadlines.* Ability to adapt and change quickly to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders, ongoing responsibilities, and emerging projects.#LI-CS3**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.