Senior Legal Editor, Real Estate (Remote)
Thomson Reuters- Full Time
- Posted : 4 years ago
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Practical Law, a Thomson Reuters business, is a leading online provider of legal know-how. We help lawyers practice more efficiently and deliver greater value to clients. As a full-time Practical Law editor on our Real Estate team, you will have the opportunity to apply your practical experience in a highly professional environment with other experienced attorneys. This is a dynamic job that allows you to fully utilize and continuously expand your skills and develop information and technology solutions. Our subscribers include most major international law firms and corporations, including approximately 85% of the Am Law 200, hundreds of small and mid-size firms and over 1,300 legal departments worldwide.
About the Role
In this opportunity as a Senior Legal Editor, you will:
- Take on a leadership role for the Practical Law Real Estate service for California, driving content planning and development of new resources for attorneys handling a variety of routine and complex real estate matters in California.
- Develop, write and edit a wide variety of know-how and current awareness resources on real estate matters (including practice guidance notes, standard documents, checklists, and legal updates) for practicing attorney-subscribers, with a focus on California-specific resources.
- Monitor real estate related legal developments and legal practice trends in California, with the overarching goal of ensuring our coverage is current, accurate and relevant.
- Collaborate with other Practical Law editors on content planning and priorities to meet the practice needs of real estate lawyers handling California-specific transactions, and to identify and develop new high-value California-specific and national, resources covering a wide variety of topics including, acquisitions, sales, financing, and leasing of commercial real estate.
- Help us develop and maintain both California, and national, real estate resources to serve all markets.
- Establish and maintain relationships with external California-based real estate lawyers to find content contributors and to ensure that the real estate content is topical and meets their needs.
- Stay informed of current developments and issues in real estate in California, and nationally, to ensure timely updates of existing content and development of new content.
- Work with sales and marketing teams to promote the Practical Law Real Estate service.
- Work remotely from home on a permanent basis – anywhere in the State of California.
Candidates selected for a second interview will be required to undertake writing and editing samples.
About You
You’re a fit for the role of Senior Legal Editor if you have:
- At least six (6) years’ recent experience working as a real estate attorney in a California law firm, including experience at either a large firm with a real estate group or a boutique firm with a sophisticated real estate practice.
- A clear focus on real estate matters, with an emphasis on handling drafting and negotiating California-specific real estate transactions, optimally including the handling of routine and complex commercial real estate leasing, acquisitions, sales, development, and financing transactions. Experience in handling national commercial leasing matters is also a plus.
- Actively licensed in California.
- Strong academic credentials.
- Enthusiasm and ambition, with a desire to improve the efficiency of legal services.
- A passion for writing and strong editing skills, including:
- Very close attention to detail
- Excellent command of grammar, punctuation and plain English
- Strong technical drafting skills; and
- The ability to write about complex legal issues clearly and simply.
- Self-motivated with excellent management and organizational skills to effectively track productivity and ensure product development milestones are met.
- Ability to constantly collaborate with and support team members in a remote environment.
- Ability to operate efficiently in a remote/VPN environment without on-site technical support.
What’s in it For You
At Thomson Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:
- Compensation: Competitive salary and bonus.
- Learning & Development: Environment that encourages continuous learning and development.
- Benefits: Excellent 401(k) with generous match, paid time off, parental leave, health insurance, employee stock purchase program, and other benefits.
- Perks: Excellent work-life balance in a professional and flexible work environment that celebrates diversity and inclusion.
Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.
We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 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
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
Skills
- Machine Learning
- English
- Administrative Works
- Sales
- Fast-learner
- Multi-Tasking
- Editorial skils
- Technical Writing
- Technical support
- Task Management
- Client Relationship Management
- Written & Verbal Communication
- Real Estate Knowledge
