Assistant Editor

Job Description

We are seeking a law graduate, with some experience in a legal or publishing environment to join the Practical Law team in the UK.

Practical Law is a leading online know-how service providing rigorous, peer-reviewed resources, such as practice notes, current awareness and standard documents to help legal professionals work smarter and advise with confidence. Practical Law is part of Thomson Reuters, one of the world’s most trusted providers of answers across law, tax, compliance, government and media.

Key Responsibilities

As an Assistant Editor in the Practical Law Global team, you will use your developing legal knowledge and experience to assist your colleagues devise, provide and maintain a wide range of Practical Law content. Working in a supportive global team of highly experienced colleagues, you will deal with a breadth of interesting legal and editorial work including:

• Creating new and maintaining existing materials spanning a variety of formats.

• Reviewing and editing content written internally and externally.

• Liaising with contributors in relation to their content, including in relation to requests for annual reviews.

• Providing administrative and publishing support, ensuring that content is produced in compliance with technical and editorial requirements and helping to maintain internal content database.

• Providing support in relation to new legal AI and technology-driven projects.

Required Qualifications

You're a fit for this role of Assistant Editor if your background includes:

• An undergraduate law degree (2:1 or above), or an undergraduate degree in another subject (2:1 or above) together with a completed law conversion course.

• Knowledge or experience of international or cross-border legal practice, or experience in legal publishing, including editing content by contributors whose first language is not English.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to write and edit clearly under guidance.

• Strong organisational skills; experience of managing or coordinating large volumes of content or data would be an advantage.

• Excellent attention to detail.

• The ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.

• The ability to meet deadlines, prioritise tasks and manage their own workload.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and a willingness to learn relevant Practical Law and Thomson Reuters applications.

• Undergraduate Law Degree.

• Undergraduate Degree in a subject other than Law and Post Graduate Diploma in Law (or equivalent).

Preferred Qualifications

A strong interest in AI, confidence in using technology and the ability to adapt quickly to new tools.

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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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