Senior Legal Counsel

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

 

 

Senior Legal Counsel

Do you want to be part of a team that helps professionals do their jobs better and which also strives to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future?  At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years (see below for more information!).

We're looking for an experienced, hands-on commercial lawyer with a problem-solving approach to providing commercial legal services in a technology-enabled, data-driven corporate, legal department.  The successful candidate should have advanced legal skills and be able to provide sound legal and business advice to sales professionals in North America, product management, and other internal customers, on a broad range of legal and compliance matters, particularly in relation to software (including SaaS), information licensing and partnerships.

This opportunity is with Thomson Reuters and based in Dallas, Toronto or Minneapolis-Saint Paul. The role sits within the Customers & Commercial team of the Thomson Reuters General Counsel’s Office, a highly collaborative international team focused on enabling business growth and mitigating risk for the customer-centric commercial group.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Senior Legal Counsel, you will:

• Review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of customer facing and partner facing agreements, primarily complex software (including SaaS) and information licensing agreements, re-distribution, reseller, referral and other channel partnership agreements, integration, hosting, content acquisition, consulting and professional services agreements, non-disclosure agreements and other commercial agreements relating to sales of Thomson Reuters products and services.
• Provide strategic legal advice to business leaders and partner with multiple stakeholders to drive strategy and growth.
• Experience advising on the licensing of, as well as using, AI tools and other legal technology.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Senior Legal Counsel if your background includes:

• 6-8+ years post qualification experience in private practice and/or as in-house legal counsel advising a sales organization on customers (rather than procurement).
• A desire to build a legal career within a large corporate setting.
• Excellent technical legal knowledge in contract and commercial law, particularly with SaaS products and solutions, including Generative and Agentic AI products and solutions.
• Experience and knowledge of software/technology contracting.
• Excellent negotiation and drafting skills.
• An ability to think strategically, creatively and practically, to identify and resolve legal issues.
• A desire and ability to quickly learn about Thomson Reuters products and services, and its internal processes and organizational structure.
• Authorized to practice law.

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What’s in it For You?

• 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.

• 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 flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, 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 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: 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.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two pa