Casual Legal Editor

Do you love legal research, editing and writing? We are looking for a diligent Legal Editor (Casual) to join our team of experienced editors and work collaboratively in a team with a strong work ethic and a passion for the law.

To be successful in the role you will love legal research, editing, writing, and possess a high degree of attention to detail. You’ll enjoy learning, be receptive to instruction and feedback. You will be a self-starter who can manage your own workload, while working collaboratively within a team environment. You will be able to work within our publishing conventions and priorities.

About the role

• Constitute, develop and maintain content of assigned publications – ensure legislation, case law and commentary are current, accurate and relevant.
• Assess all material submitted by authors for accuracy and relevance.
• Edit material for content and presentation, ensuring requirements are met.
• Undertake cross-referencing, classification and other editorial tasks.
• Write commentary, as and when required, on topical points of law.
• Review and edit legal commentary and journal articles created by other employees, authors, and others.
• Identify key legal issues in editorial materials.
• Adhere to editorial publishing schedules and quality standards.
• Verify own work and that of colleagues and external contributors as required for accuracy, completeness, and quality, following the New Zealand Law Style Guide, and ensure that the information is properly presented and organised.
• Maintain and develop legal knowledge and skills training as required to complete work and stay current on legal trends and developments related to the employee’s editorial responsibilities.

About You:

• Hold a New Zealand Law degree
• Have post-qualification legal experience (desirable) – or similar experience
• Possess strong legal research skills and familiarity with New Zealand legal resources
• Ability to interpret, analyse, organise, and communicate complex legal material
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and understanding of its importance from a customer perspective
• Ability to adapt quickly and respond positively to change
• A commitment to both team and personal goals
• Excellent time management skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks and work efficiently
• Editorial experience an advantage

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What’s in it For You?

• 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.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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