Attorney Editor

Refinitiv; Ann Arbor (MI); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a detail-oriented Attorney Editor who will provide legal interpretation through research, analysis, and writing. This role involves creating premium legal content, classifying legal materials, and ensuring accuracy in published information. The ideal candidate will possess a J.D. degree and demonstrate strong legal research and writing skills. This innovative firm promotes a hybrid work model, offering flexibility and a supportive work-life balance, while fostering career development and a culture of inclusion. Join a team that makes a real-world impact in the legal sector and contributes to upholding the rule of law.

Benefits

Flexible Hybrid Work Model

Work-Life Balance Policies

Career Development Programs

Comprehensive Benefit Plans

Paid Volunteer Days

Mental Health Resources

Qualifications

• J.D. degree required with a strong aptitude for legal research and writing.
• Ability to analyze and communicate complex legal material effectively.

Responsibilities

• Create legal information and classify key attributes of cases.
• Adhere to editorial schedules and maintain quality standards.

Skills

Legal Research

Legal Writing

Analytical Thinking

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Time Management

Education

J.D. degree from an ABA accredited law school

Tools

Westlaw

Word Processing Applications

Job description

In this role you will provide legal interpretation in the form of research, analysis, and writing to support the development and maintenance of Thomson Reuters Legal information in all media. Members of this team are also tasked with ensuring that published legal information contains and delivers premium legal content.

About the Role:
In this opportunity as an Attorney Editor you will:

• Legal Research, Analysis and Writing: Attorney Editors create legal information in the form of headnotes, highlights, and other features and enhancements. They also identify key legal issues in editorial materials while demonstrating competence in Westlaw navigation and online research tools.
• Legal Classification: Attorney Editors classify key attributes of a case to a proprietary hierarchy. They also manage and maintain the hierarchies.
• Editorial Responsibility: Attorney Editors adhere to editorial publishing schedules and quality standards. They also verify their own work and that of other staff as required for accuracy and completeness and ensure that the information is properly presented and organized. In this role you will be required to maintain and develop legal knowledge and skills training as needed to complete your work and to stay current on legal trends and developments that are related to your editorial responsibilities.
• Individual and Leadership Development: As a part of a larger team, you will attend and participate in meetings and take part in the employee evaluation process (both wider feedback and self-evaluation). To be most effective at your job, you will develop knowledge of Thomson Reuters Legal publications and products related to your responsibilities, and those of competitors.

About You:
You’re a fit for the role of Attorney Editor if you have/are:

• J.D. degree from an American Bar Association accredited law school
• Self-starter with aptitude for legal research and writing
• Analytical thinker who uses logic and collaborates to solve difficult problems
• Decisive with a focus on making quality decisions quickly
• Ability to interpret, analyze, organize, and communicate complex legal material.
• Comfortable with personal computers and familiar with word processing and online applications
• Can prioritize tasks and projects and pursue them with energy and drive
• Great teammate who will work successfully in a shared environment.
• Strong communicator who can speak and write clearly and effectively with all contacts, both in and outside Thomson Reuters.

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.