Legal Content Editor

New Position: This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs.

 

 

Legal Content Editor

Role Summary:
In this role you will provide legal interpretation in the form of identification and analysis of the interrelationship between decisions of different courts andagencies to support the development and maintenance of Thomson Reuters Legal information, in particular, its KeyCite citator. Members of this team arealso tasked with ensuring that published legal information contains and delivers premium legal content.

About the Role:
In this opportunity as a Legal Content Editor your responsibilities will include

• Identify key issues in editorial materials and the relationships among and between editorial materials as required.
• Direct the integration of legal content into repository; creates captions, historical notes and other contextual materials as required.
• May create information that provides additional context to editorial materials such as assigning judges, parties, and roles within and between trial documents, or identifying and adding research references.
• Summarize basic content types, as required.
• Allocate information in the form of headnotes, historical notes, headings, analysis, indexes, highlights, and other text to an existing scheme or taxonomy, as required.
• Identify, determine and resolve direct and indirect case history relationships, as required.
• Adhere to editorial publishing schedules and quality standards.
• Verify own work for accuracy and completeness, and ensure that the information is properly presented and organized.
• Attend and participate in meetings as requested/required.
• Develop understanding of the roles and responsibilities of each collaborator/team member and how each role impacts production.

About You:

You’re a fit for the role of Legal Content Editor if you have/are:

• A bachelor’s degree, or have completed an approved paralegal certificate

• A self-starter with aptitude for legal research

• Capable of balancing solitary day-to-day work with team needs and guidelines

• An analytical thinker who uses logic and collaborates to solve difficult problems

• Decisive with a focus on making quality decisions quickly

• The ability to interpret, analyze, and organize complex legal material

• Comfortable with personal computers and familiar with word processing and online applications

• The ability to prioritize tasks and projects and pursue them with energy and drive

• A great teammate who will work successfully in a shared environment

• Fluency in Spanish preferred

• Strong communication skills and can speak and write clearly and effectively with all contacts, both in and outside Thomson Reuters

• Demonstrate strong technical skills and the ability to effectively utilize various tools, including generative AI technologies, to enhance productivity and accuracy

• Adapt to diverse projects and tasks within the generative AI space as well as new and emerging technologies

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What’s in it For You?

• 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 commitment of 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 paid leave, 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.

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