Snr Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law (ME) Banking & Finance

Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law (Middle East) Banking & Finance

Are you a lawyer looking for a career change? We are seeking an experienced banking & finance lawyer to join the Practical Law Middle East team based in the United Arab Emirates.

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.

As part of our continued development of Practical Law and Middle East market growth, we are planning to expand our Middle East content. We are therefore looking to recruit legal professionals with extensive banking & finance experience in the UAE. As part of the role, the Senior Specialist Legal Editors will help to define the jurisdiction’s content strategy and be responsible for drafting high quality content, which meets our customers’ needs.

About the Role

As a Senior Specialist Legal Editor you will use your knowledge of banking & finance law and practice in the Middle East to provide and maintain a wide range of Practical Law content. Working with a supportive team of highly experienced colleagues, you will deal with a breadth of interesting legal and editorial work including:

• Creating well-written, up to date content for online publication that reflects current law and market practice and is of the quality and scope to meet business objectives and customer needs.
• Commissioning, reviewing and editing content written internally and externally.
• Maintaining all content for which you are responsible to ensure it is up-to-date and continues to be of the quality and scope that meets business objectives and customer needs.
• Developing relationships with third parties with a view to obtaining contributions of content or improving content through third party insights into law or practice.

In addition to this, the Senior Specialist Legal Editor will:

• Assist with developing and marketing Practical Law Middle East and Practical Law Global.
• Support marketing and sales and all other parts of the business to ensure delivery of business objectives, including engaging with customers.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Specialist Senior Legal Editor if your background includes:

• At least five years’ post qualification experience in banking & finance legal practice (at a law firm or in-house).
• Substantial recent experience in banking & finance legal practice (at a law firm or in-house) in either the United Arab Emirates (UAE) or Saudi Arabia (KSA).
• A demonstrable interest and ability in writing with excellent attention to detail.
• An in-depth understanding of litigation law.
• Business level written English (essential).
• Business level written Arabic (preferred).

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:

• 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.
• 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.