Legal Editorial Associate - (Global) UK/US - LLB/LLM

Job Description

We are seeking Legal Editorial Associates (LEAs) to support the Practical Law editorial teams with the creation, publication, delivery, and presentation of content for Practical Law Global. At Practical Law, you will work as part of a market leading team, using your experience and expertise to contribute to a market leading product.

About The Role

Working with editorial teams in both Hyderabad and the UK and under the organization and supervision of two Hyderabad-based Managers, you will:

• Proof-read content to ensure that there are no typographical errors or broken links on the live site.
• Review the content in document templates to ensure that the content renders properly on the live site and solve template usage problems as and when they arise.
• Assist with writing and copy-editing and technical legal editing of content.
• Learn and apply applicable style and citation guides when reviewing content.
• Carry out legal and non-legal research as needed.
• Assist with content creation and maintenance, liaising where appropriate with colleagues and external contributors.
• Respond to customer queries as appropriate and provide support to others to ensure questions are answered and published appropriately.
• Help collate business intelligence data reports and other reports and spreadsheets related to content creation and management.
• Other administrative support tasks for editorial, as required.
  
  

About You

• Legal qualifications: either a Bachelor of Laws or an Integrated undergraduate degree in law, or 3+ years' experience as a paralegal
• Experience with UK and US legal systems strongly preferred
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Excellent proof-reading skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office applications
• Prior legal training and/or experience preferred
• Previous experience working in a publishing environment preferred
• Previous experience using technology to create and disseminate online content preferred
  
  

What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• 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
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet 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.
  
  

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

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 that celebrate diversity and inclusion. 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.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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