Senior Legal Writer - FindLaw

Your Impact at FindLaw, part of Thomson Reuters

We are looking for a Senior Legal Writer who can create, edit, and enhance legal forms and supporting guides for FindLaw.com.

Are you a self-starter who is passionate about developing legal materials for consumers? Do you have a background in legal research, legal document drafting, and/or document automation? Are you well-versed in technology and able to learn new systems quickly? Do you have a sincere interest in helping consumers find affordable solutions and answers to their legal needs? Are you a self-starter who works well in a team environment and embraces change? Do you love training, coaching and developing other writers in their craft, processes and systems? If so, then you are the one we want.

FindLaw.com is the number one destination for consumers with legal needs, with more than eight million visits each month. It is home to the largest online legal directory of lawyers. As a trusted source, millions of consumers and lawyers turn to FindLaw.com to learn about a legal topic, solve a legal problem, find a form, get practice tips or find a lawyer. It's your content that makes this happen.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Senior Legal Writer, you will:

• Research and draft legal forms for a consumer audience
• Automate legal forms and guide users through form creation
• Write effective informational content designed to help FindLaw.com users find answers to their legal questions
• Create and edit accessible, smart, and useful content across multiple legal practice areas in collaboration with editorial and performance partners
• Track content performance using multiple measures and use performance measures to constantly refine your writing style and improve content performance
• Assist editor and legal writers in content production and editing tasks as needed, including form and content maintenance
• Work with editor and legal writers to constantly refine and improve FindLaw best practices
• In conjunction with your editor, help train, coach and support FindLaw.com writers on systems, processes, writing and analytics
• Work with editors and colleagues to constantly refine and improve FindLaw content best practices

About You

You're a fit for the role of Senior Legal Writer if your background includes:

• 5+ years professional legal writing experience preferred
• Experience writing precisely and succinctly under tight deadlines
• Experience writing and editing in a professional setting
• Intermediate understanding of HTML and SEO
• Experience in the practice of law or in a judicial clerkship a plus
• Experience in legal marketing a plus
• Advanced user of Microsoft Word (preferred)
• Experienced user of Office365 suite
• Experience with document automation systems (preferred)

Knowledge/Skills

• Excellent writing skills, with ability write and edit compelling, accurate information for consumer audiences
• Excellent legal research skills, with ability to create accurate legal forms
• Detail-oriented and organized
• Ability to manage complex projects
• Ability to be flexible within a constantly evolving process and shifting priorities
• Technology and Internet savvy with experience using complex systems
• Comfort with editor and/or peer review of content and with constructive criticism

Education

• Bachelor's degree required
• J.D. required

About FindLaw®

The Company

FindLaw is the leading provider of business development solutions for law firms and home to the largest online destination for people with legal needs (www.findlaw.com). Our integrated marketing solutions help law firms grow their practice through strategic marketing approaches that drive results. The growth and success of our business is the direct result of our diverse teams of talent that are creative, dynamic, and just plain knowledgeable. We recruit and retain the best professionals from across the country that bring an array of expertise to the table, including legal experts, tech talents, marketing wizards, data geeks, and digital strategists.

The Employee

This part is about you. Are you a motivated professional who has a natural bias towards action? Are you a collaborator who knows how to advocate for your position, yet respects the value of different perspectives? Do you know your stuff and still want to learn even more? Do you understand that being competitive means being flexible and knowing that change can be fun? Do you care about culture and understand that you play a role in shaping it? Most importantly, do you find yourself nodding "yes," as you read this job description? If so, you should work at FindLaw, part of Thomson Reuters.

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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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

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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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