Regional Reporter

Law Business Research Limited; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Centellic seeks a Cleveland-based Regional Reporter to own Ohio legal coverage, including lawyers, firms, judges, and cases shaping the market. You’ll build a beat from scratch, cultivate sources, and deliver clear, enterprise journalism for a professional audience.

Join a fast-paced newsroom that values curiosity, accuracy, and high standards as you become the go-to journalist for lawyers and legal leaders across Ohio.

Qualifications

• Experience covering law or business.
• Knowledge of Ohio's legal market is a plus.
• Comfort building a beat from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Cover mid-size law firms, major cases and litigation trends in Ohio.
• Report on judges, courts, and civil procedure developments.
• Track firm strategy, growth, and regulatory changes.
• Translate complex legal issues into clear journalism for professionals.
• Source-driven reporting with enterprise stories.

Skills

Beat reporting

Source cultivation

Court/law knowledge

Writing for professionals

Job description

Regional Reporter

Department: Content Editorial & Research

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Cleveland

Compensation: $60,000 - $70,000 / year

Description

The Role

We are seeking a Cleveland-based, ambitious, enterprising reporter to build and own coverage of the Ohio legal community. This reporter will cover the lawyers, law firms, judges and cases that shape the business and practice of law in one of the country’s most important legal markets. This reporter will be based in Cleveland, but will cover happenings in the legal market across the state.

This is a beat-building role from the ground up. The right candidate will be comfortable cultivating sources, working the phones, showing up in person, and becoming a familiar—and trusted—and presence within the Ohio legal ecosystem.

The Team

On Law.com's Regional Desk, we cover the lawsuits, lawyers and judges making national headlines. We move fast and are often on the go—covering hearings and trials or meeting with key players in our ecosystem. We are a newsroom that enjoys nerding out about our coverage areas with each other and are quick to offer up a source or perspective to one another. If diligently tracking emerging case law and charting the world's most influential lawyers sounds like fun to you, you're in the right place.

Key Responsibilities

What You’ll Cover

• Mid-size law firms as the core of the beat, including firm strategy, growth and lateral moves.
• Major cases and litigation trends shaping Ohio's legal landscape, with an emphasis on civil litigation. You will be keeping an eye on key players within the court system, tracking which firms are getting the big cases and proactively getting insights into the fallout from major court decisions.
• Judges and courts, including key rulings, judicial appointments, caseloads, court administration, and developments inside state and federal courts.
• Rules and policy changes, including updates to civil procedure, court administration, and other regulatory shifts affecting legal practice.
• The business of law, including firm management, client dynamics, and broader market trends.

Why This Role Matters

Cleveland is a dynamic and consequential legal market, and this reporter will define how we cover it. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a high-impact beat, break meaningful news, and become the go-to journalist for lawyers and legal leaders across the region.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

What This Role Requires

• A strong reporter’s instinct for what matters—and what’s next—in the legal industry.
• The confidence and curiosity to build a beat from scratch, identifying stories before they’re obvious.
• Willingness to meet people face to face, attend hearings, firm events, bar association meetings, and industry gatherings.
• Comfort working the phones, developing sources, and maintaining regular contact with attorneys, judges, and court officials.
• The ability to translate complex legal issues into clear, compelling journalism for a professional audience.
• Sharp news judgment, strong writing skills, and a commitment to accuracy and fairness.
• The initiative to generate story ideas independently and pursue them aggressively.

Preferred Background

• Experience covering law, courts, business, or a similarly complex beat.
• Familiarity with Ohio's legal market is a plus, but not required.
• A track record of source-driven reporting and enterprise stories.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced newsroom environment with high standards.

About Centellic

Centellic stands at the center of the markets it serves, empowering organizations with indispensable data and insight to make critical decisions on growth, risk and opportunity.

Through proprietary data, deep market expertise and AI-enabled technology, our platforms are embedded in client workflows. That capability is underpinned by our events, which bring the market together to share perspective and deepen understanding of the issues shaping each sector. Together, they give organizations earlier visibility of emerging trends, and the clarity and confidence to act when decisions matter.

At Centellic, we’re a global intelligence and information services business, setting the standard for how critical business decisions are made.

Why Centellic?

At Centellic, we help our clients make better decisions, and our people are at the heart of that work. Every individual plays an important role in this, bringing curiosity and high standards to everything they do.

Those who thrive here take ownership, care deeply about their work and are committed to excellence. Standards are high because our people set them that way. And while we have decades of expertise, we are still growing, pushing and building something extraordinary.

Centellic’s advantage is our people and the culture we’ve created