[Remote] Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Capital Markets

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thomson Reuters is seeking a Senior Specialist Legal Editor for Practical Law’s Capital Markets & Corporate Governance team. The role creates and maintains practical legal content on securities offerings, monitors legal and market developments, and supports AI-powered legal solutions and related product development.

Responsibilities

• Researching, drafting, and maintaining clear, current, and practical legal know-how content for Practical Law and other Thomson Reuters products and initiatives in alignment with market practice, customer needs, and business objectives, using a variety of evolving tools, formats, and content development methods
• Monitoring legal, practice, and market developments impacting securities offerings to ensure that our content remains relevant and accurate
• Using your legal expertise to support the development of customer-focused AI-powered tools, including identifying and implementing methods that address the intersection of content development and AI-driven legal solutions
• Partnering with Product Management to innovate on tech development, product enhancements, and the integration of AI into Thomson Reuter’s offerings
• Establishing and maintaining relationships with external law firm contributors and industry groups to ensure content reflects market practice and meets customer needs
• Supporting sales, marketing, and other parts of the business, including responding to customer inquiries

Skills

• Experienced capital markets lawyer with significant experience in public and private securities offerings
• JD required
• Minimum of eight (8) years' experience working as a lawyer in a law firm or in-house with a significant amount of experience working on a variety of private and public debt and equity securities offerings
• Strong technical skills and the ability to effectively utilize various tools, including generative AI technologies, to enhance productivity and accuracy
• Understand current market issues and proposals to enact, amend, or change laws and regulations impacting US private and public companies
• Understand the needs and priorities of law firm attorneys, in-house counsel, and other startups professionals
• Skill and passion for writing and the ability to write about complex legal issues clearly and concisely in plain English
• Enthusiasm for working on a dynamic editorial team, comfortable working in an environment of rapid change, and a passion for exploring how AI can revolutionize editorial content creation
• Experience representing both issuers and underwriters
• Demonstrated adaptability and flexibility to work on diverse projects and tasks within the generative AI space as well as new and emerging technologies
• Deep curiosity about the increasing intersection of AI and legal practice, with a desire to build legal prompt engineering skills and innovative content development methods that optimize AI responses for specific legal tasks
• Innovative, agile thinker with excellent time management, organizational skills, and demonstrated project management

Benefits

• Flexible hybrid working environment for office-based roles.
• Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
• Flexible vacation.
• Two company-wide Mental Health Days off.
• Access to the Headspace app.
• Retirement savings, including a competitive 401k plan with company match.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee incentive programs.
• Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Two paid volunteer days off annually.
• Opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs.
• Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, and sabbatical leave.
• Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee.
• Optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee.
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
• Fitness reimbursement.
• Access to Employee Assistance Program.
• Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee.
• Access to 529 Plan.
• Commuter benefits.
• Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance.
• Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• May be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

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