Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law Corporate-Commercial (English and Scots law) 

We are seeking an experienced corporate-commercial lawyer to join the Practical Law Corporate and Commercial team in the UK. 

Practical Law is a leading online know-how service providing rigorous, peer-reviewed resources, such as practice notes, current awareness and standard documents to help legal professionals work smarter and advise with confidence. Practical Law is part of Thomson Reuters, one of the world’s most trusted providers of answers across law, tax, compliance, government and media. 

About the Role 

As a Senior Specialist Legal Editor in Practical Law, you will use your specialist legal knowledge of corporate-commercial law to provide and maintain a wide range of Practical Law content. Working in a supportive team of highly experienced colleagues, you will deal with a breadth of interesting legal and editorial work including: 

• Creating well-written, up to date content for online publication that reflects current law and practice and is of the quality and scope to meet business objectives and customer needs 

• Commissioning, reviewing and editing content written internally and externally 

• Maintaining all content for which you are responsible to ensure it is up-to-date and continues to be of the quality and scope that meets business objectives and customer needs 

• Developing relationships with third parties with a view to obtaining contributions of content or improving content through third party insights into law or practice 

In addition to this, the Senior Specialist Legal Editor will: 

• Assist with developing and marketing the Corporate and Commercial practice areas  

• Support marketing and sales and all other parts of the business to ensure delivery of business objectives, including engaging with customers 

About You 

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

• Substantial post qualification experience (in England & Wales and Scotland) as a lawyer specialising in corporate-commercial at a law firm or in-house including in relation to: 

• Supply of goods and services terms and conditions 

• Confidentiality agreements 

• General contract law including boilerplate provisions 

• Execution of documents 

• Company formation and administration 

• Private M&A 

• Partnerships 

• A demonstrable interest and ability in writing with excellent attention to detail 

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:

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: 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.
• 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: Eleven 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.

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We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

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We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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