Legal Counsel

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your legal experience to a world class organization that is leading the way in both content and technology to serve and protect our citizens home and abroad? Do you have the skills necessary to provide legal support to a proposal team on responses to government and corporate issued solicitations? Then Thomson Reuters Special Services (TRSS) is looking for you!

About the Role

The Legal Counsel will serve as a hands-on contracts attorney in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment. As a TRSS Legal Counsel, day to day duties will primarily include the review, drafting and negotiation of client contracts, teaming agreements, subcontracts, Non-Disclosure Agreements, 3rd party data licenses, supplier agreements, and partner agreements. The Legal Counsel is also responsible for providing timely advice to business development, technology, product development, and finance teams regarding contractual terms at the proposal, negotiation, and contract performance stages. The position will provide legal support to the proposal team on responses to government and corporate issued solicitations. 

• Provide legal review of sales agreements including client contracts, teaming agreements, subcontracts, Non-Disclosure Agreements
• Provide legal review of supplier/partner agreements including 3rd party data and software licenses, reseller agreements, and partner/consultant agreements
• Negotiate directly with external government and commercial clients, suppliers, partners and consultants to achieve commercially beneficial terms
• Draft contractual language to ensure appropriate risk allocation and advantageous terms for the business 
• Review terms and conditions for Requests for Proposals, Invitations to Bid, as well as other informal bidding opportunities for government and commercial customers
• Provide legal guidance in the resolution of contract issues and disputes
• Provide general legal/contracting support to business development team
• Evaluate negotiation practices and make recommendations to continually improve the process.
• Recommend updates/revisions to contract templates in response to changing business needs and customer requirements

About You:

You’re a good fit for the role of Legal Counsel if you have:

• Juris Doctorate (J.D.) required from an accredited law school and current attorney licensure
• 2-5 years in customer contracting and/or procurement contracting in a corporate setting, with strong legal experience negotiating and drafting customer and/or vendor agreements including content, software and technology
• Experience structuring, drafting, analyzing and negotiating a wide range of buy side and sell side contracts, including sales agreements, data licensing agreements, teaming agreements, subcontracts, software licensing agreements, master service agreements, NDAs, and reseller agreements
• Passion for contract review, drafting and negotiation
• Ability to adapt to change, prioritize multiple projects and to work within tight deadlines
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Word redlining functions and versioning
• Demonstrated business judgment and acumen
• High level of integrity and professionalism
• Highly developed organizational skills and strong attention to detail 
• Excellent oral and written communication skills 
• Works well as a team member and able to build trust and rapport with both internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to successfully balance the interests of the client and/or supplier while maintaining a good legal and fiscal position for the company
• Ability to work autonomously and be a self-starter
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Security Clearance

Knowledge and Preferred Skills

• 1-3 years in federal government contracting and strong knowledge of FAR/DFAR required
• Undergraduate or Associate’s degree in Business or Economics
• Contract administration and compliance experience
• Experience in data licensing/data rights

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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 (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

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, 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.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• 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: Ten 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 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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