Legal Content Editor

Thomson Reuters • Frisco, TX

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs. In this role you will provide legal interpretation in the form of identification and analysis of the interrelationship between decisions of different courts and agencies to support the development and maintenance of Thomson Reuters Legal information, in particular, its KeyCite citator. Members of this team are also tasked with ensuring that published legal information contains and delivers premium legal content.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree, or have completed an approved paralegal certificate
• A self-starter with aptitude for legal research
• Capable of balancing solitary day-to-day work with team needs and guidelines
• An analytical thinker who uses logic and collaborates to solve difficult problems
• Decisive with a focus on making quality decisions quickly
• The ability to interpret, analyze, and organize complex legal material
• Comfortable with personal computers and familiar with word processing and online applications
• The ability to prioritize tasks and projects and pursue them with energy and drive
• A great teammate who will work successfully in a shared environment
• Strong communication skills and can speak and write clearly and effectively with all contacts, both in and outside Thomson Reuters
• Demonstrate strong technical skills and the ability to effectively utilize various tools, including generative AI technologies, to enhance productivity and accuracy
• Adapt to diverse projects and tasks within the generative AI space as well as new and emerging technologies

Nice To Haves

• Fluency in Spanish preferred

Responsibilities

• Identify key issues in editorial materials and the relationships among and between editorial materials as required.
• Direct the integration of legal content into repository; creates captions, historical notes and other contextual materials as required.
• May create information that provides additional context to editorial materials such as assigning judges, parties, and roles within and between trial documents, or identifying and adding research references.
• Summarize basic content types, as required.
• Allocate information in the form of headnotes, historical notes, headings, analysis, indexes, highlights, and other text to an existing scheme or taxonomy, as required.
• Identify, determine and resolve direct and indirect case history relationships, as required.
• Adhere to editorial publishing schedules and quality standards.
• Verify own work for accuracy and completeness, and ensure that the information is properly presented and organized.
• Attend and participate in meetings as requested/required.
• Develop understanding of the roles and responsibilities of each collaborator/team member and how each role impacts production.

Benefits

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our commitment of empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include paid leave, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally 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.
• market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
• competitive 401k plan with company match
• competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off
• paid holidays (including two company mental health days off)
• parental leave
• sabbatical leave
• 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
• access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees