Attorney Editor - Current Awareness
Thomson Reuters is seeking an Attorney Editor to write and edit current awareness content for Westlaw Today for legal practitioners across a broad range of practice areas that may include energy, environment, bankruptcy, antitrust, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, securities or related topics. The Attorney Editor will research, write and publish timely legal analysis articles on developments related to corporate transactions, litigation, legislation and regulation.
About the Role
In this opportunity as Attorney Editor, you will:
- Research, write, and edit high-quality articles daily.
- Prioritize concurrent projects to meet challenging deadlines.
- Analyze and anticipate interests of a targeted professional audience.
- Identify key court, regulatory and transactional documents.
- Develop and maintain contacts with members of the legal community in assigned focus areas.
- Assist with online publishing tasks, including assigning topics, linking, and reviewing published content.
- Use multiple applications and content management systems to perform assigned tasks.
- Work with colleagues and other departments globally to foster company goals.
- Contribute to product development as needed.
- Regularly use AI solutions in your day-to-day work and contribute to development and refinement of AI tools.
- Perform legal research using Westlaw, CoCounsel, and systems.
About You
You're a fit for the role of Attorney Editor if your background includes:
- A Juris Doctor and experience writing and analyzing legal content related to energy, environment, corporate transactions, bankruptcy, antitrust, corporate finance, or securities.
- Superior writing and editing skills, with a keen eye for detail and accuracy.
- Experience in legal journalism, news, or other writing environment.
- Familiarity with Associated Press style.
- Ability to write about complex legal issues clearly and simply.
- Proven news judgment and analytical ability.
- Experience using online legal research platforms such as Thomson Reuters Westlaw.
- Ability to quickly learn and master new technologies.
- Ability to prioritize concurrent projects and adhere to challenging deadlines.
- Ability to adapt and change quickly to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders, ongoing responsibilities, and emerging projects.
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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 paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally 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.
About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
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. 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.
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Skills Required
- Juris Doctor (JD) degree
- Experience writing and analyzing legal content in areas such as energy, environment, corporate transactions, bankruptcy, antitrust, corporate finance, or securities
- Superior writing and editing skills with strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Experience in legal journalism, news, or other professional writing environments
- Familiarity with Associated Press (AP) style
- Experience performing legal research using Westlaw and related platforms (e.g., CoCounsel)
- Regular use of AI solutions in day-to-day work and contribution to AI tool development/refinement
- Experience using content management systems and multiple applications for online publishing
- Ability to prioritize concurrent projects and meet challenging deadlines
- Ability to build and maintain contacts within the legal community and work with global teams
Thomson Reuters Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Thomson Reuters and has not been reviewed or approved by Thomson Reuters.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible work options such as hybrid schedules and “Flex My Way” with Work From Anywhere allowances (including limited weeks abroad) are offered and positioned to support work-life balance. Feedback suggests policy-backed flexibility is a notable strength even though application can vary by role and manager.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous paid time off, enhanced bereavement, caregiver leave, two global mental-health days, and a sabbatical program expand time-away options. Paid parental leave is explicitly highlighted, with a global minimum described at 16 weeks.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is paired with wellbeing resources such as EAP, mental-health tools, and fitness/wellbeing programs. FSAs/HSAs and related health benefits reinforce the depth of the healthcare offering.
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What We Do
Thomson Reuters (NYSE / TSX: TRI) informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. The company serves professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Its products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news. For more information, visit tr.com.
