Sr. Legal Editor

• Posted : one year 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 Senior Legal 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 90% of the Am Law 200, hundreds of small and mid-size firms, and over 1,800 legal departments worldwide.

About the Role

:In this opportunity as a Senior Legal Editor (Construction Law Specialist), you will:

• Take on a leadership role for the Practical Law Real Estate Service, driving content planning and development of new resources for attorneys handling a variety of routine and complex real estate matters with an emphasis on construction matters.
• Develop, write, and edit a wide variety of know-how and current awareness resources on real estate construction matters (including practice guidance notes, standard documents, checklists, standard clauses, and legal updates) for practicing attorney-subscribers.
• Monitor legal developments and legal practice trends in construction, 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 and construction lawyers, and to identify and develop new high-value resources covering construction.
• Help us develop and maintain construction resources to serve all markets.
• Establish and maintain relationships with external lawyers to find content contributors and to ensure that the construction content is topical and meets their needs.
• Stay informed of current developments and issues in construction 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.
• Organize and conduct webinars on topics of interest to attorneys practicing construction law and assist with marketing initiatives.
• Serve as a liaison with one or more members of Practical Law Real Estate's Advisory Board, a group of the nation's industry leading attorneys.
• Work remotely from home on a permanent basis.

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 (Construction Law Specialist)
if you have:

• Minimum of eight (8) years' experience working as a lawyer in a law firm or as in-house counsel, with a significant or exclusive focus on highly sophisticated commercial construction transactions on a national basis.
• A construction background, having represented owners, contractors, construction managers, and design professionals in complex commercial construction transactions across different sectors and using various project delivery systems, including design-build and construction manager at risk.
• Extensive experience in drafting and negotiating sophisticated construction agreements, including working with AIA and other industry forms in addition to creation of custom contracts.
• Strong academic credentials.
• Enthusiasm and ambition, with a desire to improve the efficiency of legal services.
• Keen interest in, and understanding of, all facets of commercial construction.
• A solid understanding of the needs and priorities of law firm attorneys and in-house counsel and the legal market, including complexities that arise when negotiating construction agreements.
• A passion for writing and good editing skills, including:
  o very close attention to detail;
  o impressive command of grammar, punctuation, and plain English; and
  o 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 and to operate efficiently in a remote environment without on-site technical support.
• Current license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.

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: Currently the majority of our employees are working within a hybrid environment consisting of in-office and remote work, and following local COVID-19 bylaws and guidelines.
• 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; company-wide Mental Health Day Off; 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 caf networking
• Social Impact: Eight 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.

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.

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 reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The location(s) for this role include one or more of the following (New York City, San Francisco, Culver City). The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $125,500 - $233,100. The location(s) for this role include one or more of the following states (CA, CO, CT, NV, WA) and/or remote. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $114,100 - $211,900. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual's knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.

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Skills

• editing
• publishing
• real estate
• tech support
• accounting