Role Summary
Join our Global Legal Commentary team to source, create, edit, and maintain high‑quality legal content for platforms like Westlaw, print, and Proview. This entry‑level role requires strong editorial skills and effective relationship management to maintain our world‑class Commentary collection. The position is hybrid, requiring in‑office work 2 days per week. It is available in Minneapolis‑St. Paul.
About The Role
As a Commentary Attorney Editor you will:
- Source, review, and maintain legal commentary content, supporting workflows and projects for online, print, and e‑book products.
- Manage third‑party and internal relationships to adhere to publishing schedules and quality standards and ensure timely content delivery.
- Stay current with legal trends and market developments.
- Demonstrate expertise, efficiency, and curiosity in using Westlaw and other legal research technology.
- Create, edit, and update secondary legal content, including practice tips, highlights, and other features. Identify and organize key legal issues. Verify accuracy and completeness of legal content.
- Leverage legal knowledge and experience to test and validate AI solutions by working across teams to create gold data, and test and grade model outputs.
- Prioritize work and communicate effectively with stakeholders in the production of legal content and understand the roles and responsibilities of each collaborator/team member and how each role impacts the work.
- Demonstrate competence on company‑specific systems necessary to perform your job functions and develop knowledge of Thomson Reuters content and products, as well as those of competitors.
About You
You're a fit for the role of Commentary Attorney Editor if you meet the following qualifications:
- Law degree from an accredited law school required.
- Practice experience or legal editorial experience, or equivalent, strongly preferred; law review or journal experience preferred.
- Self‑starter with aptitude for legal research and writing, including experience using Westlaw and/or Practical Law and other products used for legal research.
- Analytical thinker who uses logic and collaboration to solve difficult problems.
- Decisive with a focus on making quality decisions efficiently and productively.
- Ability to interpret, analyze, organize, and communicate complex legal material.
- Comfortable working in a fluid, dynamic, and fast‑paced environment.
- Ability to prioritize tasks and projects and pursue them with energy and drive.
- A positive teammate who is flexible and adaptable and will work successfully in a shared environment.
- Strong communicator who can speak and write clearly and effectively with all contacts, both in and outside Thomson Reuters.
- Proficiency in and familiarity with Microsoft Office 365.
Benefits
- Hybrid Work Model: 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, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
- Career Development and Growth: Continuous learning and skill development with Grow My Way programming and a skills‑first approach to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI‑enabled future.
- Industry Competitive Benefits: 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: Recognition for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work‑life balance, and more.
- Social Impact: Two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro‑bono consulting projects and ESG initiatives.
- Making a Real‑World Impact: Helping customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency, upholding the rule of law.
Additional benefits include health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, a competitive 401(k) with company match, flexible time off, parental and sabbatical leave, optional hospital and accident insurance, flexible spending accounts, and more. Compensation for eligible U.S. locations ranges from $58,100 to $107,900, with annual bonus opportunities.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and provide reasonable accommodations and a drug‑free workplace. We do not discriminate based on race, color, sex/gender, pregnancy, gender identity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law.
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