Lawyer Editor

TRSS; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative publishing team as a Lawyer Editor, where your legal expertise will shape online content. This role involves monitoring legal developments, drafting new content, and ensuring the quality of published materials. Enjoy a flexible work-life balance, career development opportunities, and a culture that values inclusion and social impact. Be part of a company that empowers professionals with the insights needed to uphold justice and transparency in society. If you are passionate about law and publishing, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible Work Arrangements

Mental Health Days

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Incentive Programs

Paid Volunteer Days

Access to Headspace App

Qualifications

• Excellent writing and communication skills are essential for this role.
• Ability to manage workload and meet deadlines is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Monitor legal developments for content creation.
• Edit content to ensure consistency and quality.
• Conduct research and present findings clearly.

Skills

Writing Skills

Communication Skills

Research Skills

Attention to Detail

Ability to Work Independently

Proficiency in Microsoft Office

Education

Undergraduate Australian Law Degree

Job description

Are you qualified as a Lawyer in Australia and keen to use your legal skills in publishing? Practical Law Australia is growing and we are searching for a Lawyer Editor to join a supportive team.

As a Lawyer Editor you will form part of our Central Editorial team and will work in conjunction with more experienced colleagues to interpret and explain legal, practice and market developments to our customers through online content.

You'll also edit content in accordance with house style and tone and with Practical Law writing principles, ensuring consistency in terminology, formatting and style across all Practical Law materials.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Lawyer Editor, you will:

• Monitor and identify developments to cover in the Practical Law current awareness product offering.

• With support and supervision from colleagues, draft new content for online publication.

• Conduct research projects and present results with proper analysis and in a succinct manner.

• With support and supervision from colleagues, maintain content to ensure that it is up to date and reflects current legal and market practice, and is of the quality and scope that meets business objectives and customer needs.

• With support and supervision from colleagues, respond to queries from customers and provide support to others to ensure that questions are answered and published appropriately.

• Provide support to the Practical Law editorial and writing teams.

• Edit content in accordance with house style and verify cases, legislation and quotations.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Lawyer Editor if your background includes:

• You have excellent writing and communication skills.

• You are able to work independently and as part of a team, can work to deadlines and are able to prioritize and manage own workload.

• You are able to assimilate and apply new complex information.

• You have proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.

• You show excellent attention to detail.

• You are comfortable with technology and able to adapt to new technology quickly.

• You have an Undergraduate Australian Law Degree.

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What’s in it For You?

• 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.

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