Legal Editor

SKILL PROFILE

1. AU legally qualified
2. Editorial experience (desirable)
3. 2-3 years PQE experience (desirable)

We are looking for a diligent Legal Editor to join our team of experienced editors working on Westlaw and the Australian Digest. In this role you help provide our customers with the most up-to-date and best-in-class legal publications. As a Legal Editor, you will assist with the delivery of case law content. The work includes:

- Classifying cases in accordance with the Australian Digest classification key;
- Adding case relationships and litigation history to the cases database;
- Writing digest notes for significant cases;
- Verifying and updating cases references;
- Conducting online Quality Assurance; and
- Assisting the Case Law Manager and Senior Legal Editors on specific cases projects.

We are a close, collaborative team with a strong work ethic and a passion for case law. We work hard and offer reasonable work hours and work-life balance in return.

To be successful in the role you will have a general and broad interest in legal information and legal publishing, particularly case law. You’ll enjoy learning, be receptive to instruction and feedback and be comfortable asking for help. You will be a self-starter who can manage your own workload, while working collaboratively within a team environment. You will be able to work within our publishing conventions and priorities.
- Degree in Law
- Strong legal research skills and familiarity with Australian legal resources
- Ability to interpret, analyse, organise, and communicate complex legal material
- Strong attention to detail and understanding of its importance from a customer perspective
- Ability to work quickly and accurately under pressure
- Ability to adapt quickly and respond positively to change (a sense of humour helps)
- A commitment to both team and personal goals
- Excellent comprehension and writing skills
- Good verbal communication skills
- Excellent time management skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks and work efficiently
- Editorial experience and familiarity with XML an advantage

At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With more than 25,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realise innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.

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, colour, 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.

Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.

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 25,000 employees across more than 75 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.

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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, ma