Practical Law: Legal Content Analyst (remote)

Practical Law is looking for a self-starter, driven to work on cutting edge products for the legal market to join our editorial team. The ideal candidate has experience as a transactional associate in a law firm or has done equivalent work at Practical Law and has comfort working across a broad range of legal issues and practice areas in the US. A passion for innovation and desire to work in legal technology and publishing are a must. This role can be remote.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Legal Content Analyst you will be responsible for reading, analyzing, evaluating, and extracting insights from agreements across multiple US practice areas and bringing those insights to bear in our market-leading products. Working with our expert attorney editors and development teams, primary responsibilities include:

• Reviewing agreements, including commercial agreements, lease and purchase agreements, merger and acquisition agreements, and other agreements to identify data that reflect current market trends.
• Provide guidance for the architecture, development, testing, and implementation of artificial intelligence models and validate that the final approach satisfies defined requirements.
• Extensive training of artificial intelligence models, including annotating documents to build training data and grade results.
• Providing support to the editorial and product management teams on new and evolving product initiatives as required.
• Providing substantive editorial expertise for additional tasks and projects across Editorial.

About You

You're a fit for the role of Legal Content Analyst if your background includes:

• J.D. from an accredited institution and licensed to practice law
• Two or more years' experience in a law firm and/or in a Practical Law editorial role with relevant experience, including two years of experience in one or more US transactional areas of practice such as M&A, securities, real estate, or commercial contracting, resulting in:
  • A working understanding of one or more transactional practice areas.
  • Experience with analyzing and drafting transactional documents.
  • Familiarity with corporate documents, the EDGAR database, and overall corporate transaction process.

• Analytical and research skills and ability to identify key information from sources.
• Ability to organize and present information in a clear and structured manner.
• Ability to work efficiently and within deadlines and communicate effectively across Practical Law practice areas and teams.
• A passion for developing and applying legal technology to solve our customers' problems.
• Understands business and customer needs to meet objectives and improve user experience and access to relevant Practical Law resources.
• Proficiency in and familiarity with Microsoft Office 365.
• Ability to work flexibly in an agile product development environment.
• Candidates selected to advance will be required to submit a writing sample.

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

• Hybrid Work Model: Currently the majority of our employees are working within a hybrid environment consisting of in-office and remote work, and following local COVID-19 bylaws and guidelines.
• 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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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.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The location(s) for this role include one or more of the following (New York City, San Francisco, Culver City). The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $97,000 - $180,100. The location(s) for this role include one or more of the following states (CA, CO, CT, NV, WA) and/or remote. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $88,200 - $163,800. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual's knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.

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