Sr. Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law Asia, Commercial

Sr. Specialist Legal Editor, Practical Law Asia, Commercial

As part of our continued development of Practical Law and Asian market growth, we are planning to expand our Asian content. We are therefore looking to recruit legal professionals with extensive practising experience in the legal fields of Corporate, Commercial, Employment, and Dispute Resolution open to be based in Singapore or Hong Kong.

As a Senior Specialist Legal Editor, you will use your technical expertise and substantial experience as a practising lawyer to write and edit insightful and customer-focused content for online publication, maintain existing content and answer questions from customers, ensuring all content is of the quality and scope that meets business objectives and customer needs.

About the Role

• Researching, writing, commissioning and delivering well-written, up-to-date content for online publication that reflects current market legal practice and is of the quality and scope that meets the business objectives and needs of customers.
• 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 needs of customers.
• Developing relationships with third parties with a view to obtaining contributions of content or improving content through third party insights into law or practice.
• Ensuring that you develop and maintain an excellent understanding of the legal market, our customers and their emerging needs, and competitors. This includes interacting effectively with customers, consultation boards and contributors, and working with all parts of the business to deliver insight into business strategies, other products, sales, marketing, and technology development.
• Attending training events, conferences and talks and otherwise networking with customers and potential customers and with industry leaders.
• Helping with the development of Practical Law Asia and, more generally with the development of Practical Law.
• Supporting marketing and sales and all other parts of the business to ensure delivery of business objectives.
• Supporting and mentoring colleagues in relation to writing and maintaining content and answering questions from customers, including through subediting and peer review.

About You

• Must be qualified to practise law in either Singapore or Hong Kong.
• At least five years' post-qualification experience as a commercial lawyer (at a law firm or in-house).
• Recent substantial experience (at a law firm or in-house) in advising on commercial matters in Singapore or Hong Kong.
• Excellent writing skills in English.
• A passion for writing and outstanding editorial skills, including, very close attention to detail, impressive command of grammar, punctuation, and plain English, and the ability to write about complex legal issues clearly and simply.
• Excellent communication skills. Chinese proficiency desirable.
• Able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experienced at working to deadlines and able to prioritise and manage own workload.
• Experienced in assimilating and applying new complex information.
• Excellent knowledge of online research databases.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and in a matrixed environment and proven ability to build strong relationships and collaborate with diverse teams of people who bring different perspectives and lived experiences to the business.

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. 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.