Legal Editorial Associate - Indexing - LLB/LLM

Job Description Summary:

 Analyse, create, and deliver content that enhances the research value to customers of Thomson Reuters legal information, within parameters established by management and/or editors. Act as a resource for junior staff in handling both substantive content and production issues related to responsibilities

Commentary Law: As a member of the Global Commentary editorial team, you will work closely with other teams and individuals to collaborate on your work.  Relationship management, meeting deadlines, and strong editorial skills are necessary to maintain our indexes as part of our world-class commentary collection.

About the Role:

In this role, you will provide legal interpretation to create or update existing indexes for Thomson Reuters Legal in all media. Members of this team are also tasked with ensuring that published indexes contain and deliver appropriate legal concepts and terms to create a quality finding aid for our customers.

There are several key responsibilities of the Attorney Editor role:

• Create back-of-the-book indexes: Our Attorney Editors generate back-of-the-book indexes by creating original content or by updating an existing index.  When applicable they incorporate their index into an existing general index.  They follow the required style guidelines and deliver within extremely strict and tight time deadlines.

• Editorial Responsibility: Members of this team adhere to editorial publishing schedules and quality standards. They also verify their own work for accuracy and completeness and ensure that the information is properly presented and organized. In this role, attention to detail, knowledge of legal concepts and “terms of art” of how legal concepts fit together, and the ability to synthesize complex material are required. 
• Individual and Leadership Development: As a part of a larger team, you will attend and participate in meetings and take part in the employee evaluation process (both wider feedback and self-evaluation).  To be most effective at your job, you will develop knowledge of Thomson Reuters Legal publications and products related to your responsibilities, and those of competitors.

Members of our team prioritize their own work and understand the roles and responsibilities of each collaborator/team member and how each role impacts production. You will also be required to demonstrate competence on company-specific systems necessary to perform your job functions.

About you:

• Education: Legal degree from an accredited law school.
• Self-starter with an aptitude for legal concepts and “terms of art” of how legal concepts fit together
• Analytical thinker who uses logic and collaborates to solve difficult problems
• Decisive with a focus on making quality decisions quickly
• Driven by deadlines and can deliver results
• Ability to interpret, analyze, organize, and communicate complex legal material.
• Comfortable with personal computers and familiar with word processing and online applications
• Can prioritize tasks and projects and pursue them with energy and drive
• Great teammate who will work successfully in a shared environment.
• Strong communicator who can speak and write clearly and effectively with all contacts, both in and outside Thomson Reuters.

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What’s in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

• Industry-Leading 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.

  
  

• 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, and hybrid model, 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 skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

  
  

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Social Impact:  Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

  
  

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 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 

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.

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