Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law Finance

Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law Finance

We are seeking an experienced Finance lawyer to join the Practical Law Finance 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.

About The Role

As a Senior Specialist Legal Editor in Practical Law, you will use your specialist legal knowledge of Finance law and lending transactions to provide and maintain a wide range of Practical Law content. Working in 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 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.
• Assist with developing and marketing the Practical Law Finance practice area.
• 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:

• Substantial post-qualification experience (England & Wales) as a lawyer specialising in Finance law, with a broad range of experience in lending transactions, particularly in Leveraged Finance, Project Finance, Funds, ESG, and transition finance.
• A demonstrable interest and ability in writing with excellent attention to detail.
• In-house experience in one or more financial institutions.

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.
• 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.

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.

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.