Lead Attorney Editor

Attorney Editor Lead - Practical Law Editorial:

Practical Law Attorney Editors are responsible for legal research, analysis, and writing to support the maintenance of Practical Law content. Members of this team will work collaboratively with Practical Law colleagues globally to ensure our customers have access to the most accurate, current, and comprehensive Practical Law content. Attorney Editors must have sound editorial judgment, as they play a key role in ensuring the quality of our Editorial content. The Attorney Editor Lead acts as a subject matter expert and on-site coordinator for a team of Attorney Editors in addition to their editorial responsibilities.

About the Role - Key responsibilities include:

• Team Oversight: The Attorney Editor Lead is a senior member of the team of Attorney Editors, overseeing work assignments and training processes for the team, acting as a senior colleague responding to team questions, and generally ensuring that the team is appropriately integrated with and supported by TR resources at the Manila location.
• Legal Research, Analysis, Editing, and Writing: Attorney Editors review existing Practical Law content to ensure it is accurate and reflects recent developments. Attorney Editors must be able to identify key legal issues in editorial materials while demonstrating competence in Westlaw and on-line research tools.
• Editorial Responsibility: Members of this team must adhere to editorial publishing schedules and quality standards. They will verify their own work and that of other staff as required for accuracy and completeness, and they will ensure that the information is properly presented and organized. Attorney Editors must maintain and develop legal knowledge and skills training as needed to complete their work and stay current on legal trends and developments related to editorial responsibilities.
• Individual and Leadership Development: As a part of a larger team, Attorney Editors must participate in meetings and take part in the employee evaluation process (including self-evaluation and giving and receiving feedback). To be effective, Attorney Editors must develop knowledge of Practical Law and Thomson Reuters products, and those of competitors.
• Self-direction: Attorney Editors must prioritize their own work and understand the roles and responsibilities of each team member and how each role impacts production. Attorney Editors are required to demonstrate expertise in company-specific systems necessary to perform job functions.
• Engagement with Editorial AI Efforts: Attorney Editors will be involved in AI and LLM development, including experimentation, prompting, and evaluating results.

About You

You're a fit for the role of Attorney Editor Lead if you:

• Have a Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited law school or other equivalent, relevant legal training.
• Are a self-starter with an aptitude for legal research, writing, and analysis.
• Have a keen eye for detail and established proof-reading skills in addition to being able to pivot your attention to address high priority updates with little notice.
• Are an analytical thinker who uses logic and discretion to collaborate with global teammates to solve difficult problems where proof-reading alone cannot establish accuracy.
• Are decisive with a focus on making quality decisions quickly.
• Have the ability to interpret, analyze, organize, and communicate complex legal material.
• Are comfortable with personal computers and familiar with word processing and online applications.
• Can prioritize tasks and projects and pursue them with energy and drive.
• Are a great teammate who will work successfully in a global and collaborative environment.
• Are a strong, proactive, and assertive communicator who can speak and write clearly and effectively with all contacts, both in and outside Thomson Reuters, across the globe.
• Prior experience leading a team is a plus.

#LI-CS3

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.

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.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

Learn more on how to protect yourself from fraudulent job postings here.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on