Senior Specialist Legal Editor - Employment Lawyer (Remote)

Senior Specialist Legal Editor - Employment Lawyer (Remote)

Role Summary :

Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Practical Law, a Thomson Reuters business, is a leading online provider of legal know-how.

We help lawyers practice more efficiently and deliver greater value to clients.

Practical Law Canada is looking for a Senior Specialist Legal Editor who has a passion for research and writing to create lawyer-specific resources for our Practical Law Canada Employment Service.

We are looking for a lawyer with at least 8-10 years of experience practicing employment law, whether on the employer or plaintiff-side, to assist with expanding the scope of our legal know-how employment law materials.

As a full-time Senior Specialist Legal Editor on Practical Law’s Canadian Employment Service team, you will have the opportunity to apply your practical legal experience in a highly professional environment with other experienced lawyers.

This is a dynamic job that allows you to fully utilize and continuously expand your skills, and develop information and technology solutions.

Our culture is dynamic, energetic and intellectual. We work collaboratively on resources and interesting projects that integrate with Thomson Reuter's other offerings, particularly in the legal technology space.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Senior Specialist Legal Editor you will :

• Conceptualize, draft and edit original legal know-how materials, including Practice Notes, annotated Standard Documents and Checklists for online and print publication, in accordance with Practical Law Canada writing standards.
• Focus and shape the future of Practical Law Canada’s employment law content.
• Maintain current awareness of and analyze law and market practice in Canadian employment law.
• Assist with the development of special projects undertaken by Thomson Reuters and Practical Law Canada.
• Organize and conduct webinars on topics of interest to lawyers practicing in the employment law area, and assist with marketing initiatives and sales demonstrations.
• Develop and use existing relationships with in-house counsel and legal practitioners to ensure that the employment law content is topical and meets their needs.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Senior Specialist Legal Editor, if you have the following skills and experience :

• Call to the Bar from a Canadian common law province or territory (J.D. or LL.B.).
• At least eight years working as an employment lawyer in a law firm or as in-house counsel dealing with employment issues.
• Expertise in all aspects of employment law including employment contracts, wrongful dismissal, human rights, and employment litigation.

Business immigration and / or traditional labor law experience is an asset.

• A solid understanding of the needs of law firm lawyers and corporate counsel with respect to all areas of employment law practice.
• Ability to understand and interpret fundamental workings and trends within a target industry.
• Familiarity with electronic legal research techniques.
• Enthusiasm and ambition, with a desire to improve the efficiency of legal services.
• A passion for writing and good editing 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.

Candidates selected for a second interview will be required to provide a writing sample.

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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 :

• 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.

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