Are you qualified as a Lawyer in Australia and keen to use your writing skills in publishing? Practical Law Australia is growing and we are searching for a Lawyer Editor to join a supportive team.
As a Lawyer Editor you will form part of our Central Editorial team and will work in conjunction with more experienced colleagues to interpret and explain legal, practice and market developments to our customers through online content.
You'll also edit content in accordance with house style and tone and with Practical Law writing principles, ensuring consistency in terminology, formatting and style across all Practical Law materials.
About the Role
In this opportunity as Lawyer Editor, you will:
Monitor and identify developments to cover in the Practical Law current awareness product offering.
With support and supervision from colleagues, draft new content for online publication.
Conduct research projects and present results with proper analysis and in a succinct manner.
With support and supervision from colleagues, maintain content to ensure that it is up to date and reflects current legal and market practice, and is of the quality and scope that meets business objectives and customer needs.
With support and supervision from colleagues, respond to queries from customers and provide support to others to ensure that questions are answered and published appropriately.
Provide support to the Practical Law editorial and writing teams.
Edit content in accordance with house style and verify cases, legislation and quotations.
About You
You’re a fit for the role of Lawyer Editor if your background includes:
You have excellent writing and communication skills.
You are able to work independently and as part of a team, can work to deadlines and are able to prioritize and manage own workload.
You are able to assimilate and apply new complex information.
You have proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
You show excellent attention to detail.
You are comfortable with technology and able to adapt to new technology quickly.
You have an Undergraduate Australian Law Degree.
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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:
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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