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Practical Law Intern – Intellectual Property & Technology

Thomson Reuters
New York City, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Feb 2025
💰 $40,000/yr

About the role

Are you looking for a summer internship that provides real-world-project experience while growing your talents on a supportive and inclusive team? If so, we want to connect with you! 

At Thomson Reuters, we provide information-enabled software to help our customers in the legal, tax, accounting, corporate, news, and media fields, to make decisions that move society forward. By joining us, you will make your mark in one of WayUp’s Top 100 Internship Programs of 2023, working on industry-leading products.

Practical Law is looking for an intern who has completed their first or second year at an ABA-accredited law school to work with our Intellectual Property & Technology team for Summer 2023.

This internship will be fully remote and pay is $20/hr.

About the Role

As a Practical Law Intellectual Property & Technology Summer Intern you will: 

  • Conduct legal research on various legal intellectual property and technology law-related topics.
  • Engage in quality assurance with respect to Practical Law content.
  • Assist editors in writing new content, including legal updates.
  • Summarize changes to primary law.
  • Provide additional support, as needed.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of a Practical Law Intellectual Property & Technology Summer Intern if you:

  • Demonstrate strong legal research, writing, and analytical skills.
  • Demonstrate an ability to interpret, analyze, organize, and express complex legal material quickly and accurately.
  • Have an impressive command of grammar, punctuation, and plain English.
  • Consistently pay strong attention to detail and have good organizational skills.
  • Can work independently, consistently meet deadlines, and achieve individual objectives within larger team projects.
  • Have experience using Westlaw and Microsoft Office products.
  • Have experience or an interest in intellectual property and technology law.

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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:

  • 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.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: 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

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