Legal Research Analyst

THOMSON REUTERS CORP PTE LTD - PHILIPPINE BRANCH; Manila; Hybrid; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Mental health days

Headspace access

Tuition reimbursement

Volunteer days

Job summary

Thomson Reuters Philippines seeks a Legal Research Analyst to join a high-impact initiative shaping the future of legal research. You will apply your legal knowledge and analytical skills to build connections between state trial court orders, using AI tools to validate results for professionals worldwide.

You will work closely with Product Manager and internal stakeholders to support project scope and progression toward acquisition targets.

Qualifications

• : Bachelor's degree (J.D. not required).
• Comfort working with AI-generated tools and outputs; no specialized legal research tools experience needed.
• Ability to interpret, analyze, organize, and express complex legal material quickly and accurately.
• Ability to work independently, consistently meet deadlines, and achieve individual objectives within larger team projects.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong computer skills, including proficiency with Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Ability to adapt to evolving tools, priorities, and operational requirements.
• Availability for a fixed-term contract through December 2027.

Responsibilities

• Analyze legal information sets, identifying relationships and gaps across trial court orders and related content.
• Make qualitative judgments about the accuracy and relevance of AI-suggested connections, applying sound legal and analytical judgment.
• Interpret, analyze, organize, and express complex legal material quickly and accurately.
• Document findings and validation outcomes to support the broader content acquisition initiative.
• Work independently on assigned validation tasks while contributing to team-wide project goals and deadlines.
• Verify and validate AI-generated suggestions for state trial court order connections within the KeySite History product.
• Collaborate with the Product Manager and internal stakeholders to support project scope, quality, and progress toward acquisition targets.

Skills

Legal research

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Independence

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AI tools familiarity

Job description

Legal Research Analyst

Thomson Reuters is seeking Legal Research Analysts to join a high-impact initiative shaping the future of legal research. In this role, you'll use your legal knowledge and analytical skills alongside cutting-edge AI technology to build connections between state trial court orders, helping create a smarter, more comprehensive legal research experience for professionals worldwide. You will work closely with AI-generated outputs and internal tools to confirm connections between trial court orders, contributing to a large-scale content expansion effort.

Job Description

Thomson Reuters is seeking Legal Research Analysts to join a high-impact initiative shaping the future of legal research. In this role, you'll use your legal knowledge and analytical skills alongside cutting‑edge AI technology to build connections between state trial court orders, helping create a smarter, more comprehensive legal research experience for professionals worldwide. You will work closely with AI-generated outputs and internal tools to confirm connections between trial court orders, contributing to a large-scale content expansion effort.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze legal information sets, identifying relationships and gaps across trial court orders and related content.
• Make qualitative judgments about the accuracy and relevance of AI‑suggested connections, applying sound legal and analytical judgment.
• Interpret, analyze, organize, and express complex legal material quickly and accurately.
• Document findings and validation outcomes to support the broader content acquisition initiative.
• Work independently on assigned validation tasks while contributing to team‑wide project goals and deadlines.
• Verify and validate AI‑generated suggestions for state trial court order connections within the KeySite History product.
• Collaborate with the Product Manager and internal stakeholders to support project scope, quality, and progress toward acquisition targets.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (J.D. not required).
• Comfort working with AI‑generated tools and outputs; no specialized legal research tools experience needed.
• Ability to interpret, analyze, organize, and express complex legal material quickly and accurately.
• Ability to work independently, consistently meet deadlines, and achieve individual objectives within larger team projects.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong computer skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Ability to adapt to evolving tools, priorities, and operational requirements.
• Availability for a fixed‑term contract through December 2027.

Preferred Qualifications

• Legal background such as legal assistant, paralegal experience, or current law student status.
• Familiarity with legal content structures, such as case law or court order documentation.
• Experience with AI‑assisted tools or platforms in a professional or academic setting.

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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.

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