Attorney Editor, Primary Law Editorial
Primary Law Attorney Editors are responsible for legal research, analysis, and writing to support the development and maintenance of Thomson Reuters’ legal information in all media. Members of this team are tasked with ensuring that published legal information contains and delivers premium legal content.
Primary Law Attorney Editors work collaboratively with colleagues in the United States, Canada, and across the globe to ensure Thomson Reuters customers have access to the most accurate, current, and appropriately annotated versions of US and Canadian law, including Judicial, Legislative, Regulatory, and Court Rules materials in all media. Attorney Editors must have sound editorial judgment, as they play a key role in ensuring the quality of our Editorial content.
About the role:
In this opportunity as Attorney Editor, you will:
- Legal Research, Analysis, Validation, and Writing: Our Attorney Editors create and classify legal information in the form of headnotes, highlights, notes of decision, and other features and enhancements. Attorney Editors must be able to identify key legal issues in editorial materials while demonstrating competence in Westlaw navigation and on-line research tools.
- Editorial Responsibility: Members of this team must adhere to editorial publishing schedules and quality standards. They will verify their own work and that of other staff as required for accuracy and completeness, and they will ensure that the information is properly presented and organized. Attorney Editors must maintain and develop legal knowledge and skills training as needed to complete their work and stay current on legal trends and developments related to editorial responsibilities.
- Individual and Leadership Development: As a part of a larger team, Attorney Editors must participate in meetings and take part in the employee evaluation process (including self-evaluation and giving and receiving feedback). To be effective, Attorney Editors much must develop knowledge of Thomson Reuters Legal publications and products and those of competitors.
- Self-direction: Attorney Editors must prioritize their own work and understand the roles and responsibilities of each team member and how each role impacts production. Attorney Editors are required to demonstrate competence on company-specific systems necessary to perform job functions.
- Cases Editorial: As a member of the Cases Editorial team, you may read and analyze court decisions and classify the decision or short summaries of each point of law in the decision for Westlaw and print. Alternatively, you may be responsible for analyzing and assigning value to cases or legislation references cited by a judge in their reasons for judgment. All roles on the Cases Editorial team require strong analytical and writing skills, productivity, and quality to maintain our world class judicial content. Strong analytical and writing skills, productivity, and quality are necessary to maintain our world class judicial content.
About You
You’re a fit for the role of Attorney Editor if you:
- Have a Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited law school or equivalent relevant legal training, with aptitude for legal research, writing, and analysis.
- Possess exceptional attention to detail and established proofreading skills, with ability to pivot quickly to address high-priority updates.
- Demonstrate analytical thinking to collaborate with global teammates on complex problems where proofreading alone cannot establish accuracy.
- Make quality decisions quickly while effectively interpreting, analyzing, organizing, and communicating complex legal material.
- Show proficiency with computers, word processing, and online applications while efficiently prioritizing tasks with energy and drive.
- Thrive as a team player in a global, collaborative environment.
- Communicate proactively and assertively, both verbally and in writing, with all internal and external contacts across the globe.
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What’s in it For You?
- Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment 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
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