Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thomson Reuters is a leading provider of trusted content and technology for legal professionals, and they are seeking a Senior Specialist Legal Editor for their Capital Markets & Corporate Governance team. The role involves creating and maintaining legal content for startups, utilizing legal expertise to develop AI-powered tools, and collaborating with various teams to ensure the relevance and accuracy of the content.
Responsibilities
- Researching, drafting, and maintaining clear, current, and practical legal know-how content addressing the needs of startup companies for Practical Law and other Thomson Reuters products and initiatives in alignment with market practice, customer needs, and business objectives, using a variety of evolving tools, formats, and content development methods
- Monitoring legal, practice, and market developments impacting startups to ensure personal skills and expertise and that our content remains relevant and accurate
- Using your legal expertise to support the development of customer-focused AI-powered tools, including identifying and implementing methods that address the intersection of content development and AI-driven legal solutions
- Partnering with Product Management to innovate on tech development, product enhancements, and the integration of AI into TR's offerings
- Using your legal expertise and writing skills to support the development and application of internal AI editorial tools
- Establishing and maintaining relationships with external law firm contributors and industry groups to ensure content reflects market practice and meets customer needs
- Supporting sales, marketing, and other parts of the business, including responding to customer inquiries
Skills
- JD required
- Minimum of eight (8) years' experience working as a lawyer in a law firm or in-house with a significant amount of experience working with startup companies
- Strong technical skills and the ability to effectively utilize various tools, including generative AI technologies, to enhance productivity and accuracy
- Demonstrated adaptability and flexibility to work on diverse projects and tasks within the generative AI space as well as new and emerging technologies
- Deep curiosity about the increasing intersection of AI and legal practice, with a desire to build legal prompt engineering skills and innovative content development methods that optimize AI responses for specific legal tasks
- Understand current market issues and proposals to enact, amend, or change laws and regulations impacting US startups
- Understand the needs and priorities of law firm attorneys, in-house counsel, and other startups professionals
- Skill and passion for writing and the ability to write about complex legal issues clearly and concisely in plain English
- Innovative, agile thinker with excellent time management, organizational skills, and demonstrated project management
- Enthusiasm for working on a dynamic editorial team, comfortable working in an environment of rapid change, and a passion for exploring how AI can revolutionize editorial content creation
Benefits
- 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.
- Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
- 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.
- 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.
- Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
- 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.
- Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs.
- Competitive 401k plan with company match.
- Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave.
- Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee.
- Optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee.
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
- Fitness reimbursement.
- Access to Employee Assistance Program.
- Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee.
- Access to 529 Plan.
- Commuter benefits.
- Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance.
- Tuition Reimbursement.
- Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.
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