Legal Intern

Are you looking for an internship that provides real-world-project experience, networking with employees and executives worldwide, while growing your talents on a supportive and inclusive team? If so, we want to connect with you!

At Thomson Reuters, we provide information-enabled software to help our customers in the legal, tax, accounting, corporate, news, and media fields, to make decisions that move society forward. By joining us, you will make your mark in one of WayUp's Top 100 Internship Programs of 2020, with opportunities for working with industry-leading products.

We are seeking a motivated law student to work on legal research and content projects within Practical Law.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Legal Intern, you will:

• Conduct legal research and draft new content such as legal updates, in addition to analyzing and summarizing changes to primary law
• Engage in quality assurance and review of new content and linking while providing additional support to teams to Practical Law teams
• Flexible Schedule 10 - 20 hours per week during school terms, and up to 40 hours per week during the summer and while on breaks.

About You

You're a fit for the role of Legal Intern if you:

• Completion of the first or second year of ABA-accredited law school (Required)
• Demonstrate strong legal research, writing, and analytical skills.
• Interpret, analyze, organize, and express complex legal material quickly and accurately.
• Possess strong communication skills and can effectively communicate with those at various levels
• Ability to work independently, consistently meet deadlines, and achieve individual objectives within larger team projects.

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:

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: company-wide Mental Health Day Off; Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters cafe networking
• Social Impact: Eight 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.

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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.

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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