Senior Specialist Legal Editor, PL Commercial (Global)

We are seeking an experienced commercial lawyer to join the Practical Law Commercial team in the UK.

Practical Law is a leading online know-how service providing rigorous, peer-reviewed resources, such as practice notes, current awareness and standard documents to help legal professionals work smarter and advise with confidence. Practical Law is part of Thomson Reuters, one of the world’s most trusted providers of answers across law, tax, compliance, government and media.

About The Role

As a Senior Specialist Legal Editor in Practical Law, you will use your specialist legal knowledge of commercial law to provide and maintain a wide range of Practical Law content. Working in a supportive team of highly experienced colleagues, you will deal with a breadth of interesting legal and editorial work including:

• Analysing the latest legal, regulatory and policy developments in commercial law.
• Creating and maintaining content for online publication that reflects current law and practice and is of the quality and scope to meet business objectives and customer needs.
• Using your knowledge of UK commercial lawyers\’ needs to support Practical Law Global colleagues in developing new Practical Law Commercial offerings in common law jurisdictions around the world.
• Using your legal expertise to support the development of Thomson Reuters\’ AI-powered legal solutions including internal editorial tools.
• Reviewing and editing content written by others, both internally and externally.
• Developing relationships with third parties with a view to obtaining contributions of content or to improving content through third party insights into law or practice.

In addition, a Senior Specialist Legal Editor will assist:

• With marketing the Practical Law Commercial practice area and engaging with subscribers.
• The wider Thomson Reuters team (including Sweet & Maxwell, Lawtel and Westlaw), liaising with sales, marketing, product management and technology functions where necessary.

We can discuss part-time 4 days or full-time 5 days for this role.

About You

You\’re a fit for the role if you have:

• At least five years post-qualification experience (England & Wales) of practising commercial law in either a law firm, in-house or at the bar.
• A demonstrable interest and ability in writing.
• Extensive experience of working on supply of goods and supply of services agreements.
• Knowledge of some, not necessarily all, of the following areas: agency, franchising, distribution, outsourcing, consumer and advertising/marketing.

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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.

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