Commissioning Editor Practical Law (Remote)

Commissioning Editor Practical Law | Thomson Reuters | Australia

We are seeking an international Commissioning Editor to join the UK Practical Law commissioning team who will work closely with the Australian editorial team. You will commission legal know-how articles on a range of topics and from a range of jurisdictions for publication on the Practical Law website, promoting the knowledge and expertise of the contributing lawyers.

Practical Law is a leading online know-how service providing rigorous, peer-reviewed resources, such as practice notes, current awareness and standard documents to help legal professionals work smarter and advise with confidence. Practical Law is part of Thomson Reuters, one of the world’s most trusted providers of answers across law, tax, compliance, government and media.

About the role

As a Commissioning Editor, Practical Law, you will:

• Liaise with the editorial teams to identify necessary legal know-how content to be commissioned.
• Research and then communicate with external law firms and lawyers and their representatives, to ensure the commissioning of legal know-how articles, including attempting to ensure that copy is delivered in the time frame agreed.
• Manage the terms and conditions for articles commissioned.
• Where necessary, and where other duties do not conflict, assist with the technical legal editing, copy editing, sub-editing, and the proof-reading and review of international content pieces.
• Where necessary, assisting with commissioning for other projects and practice areas.
• Help promote Practical Law content to Practical Law’s subscribers and other users.
• Conduct focused research into specific areas of law, legal developments, law firms and in-house lawyers across different jurisdictions to build a working knowledge of current themes and issues in relevant practice areas.

About You

As a Commissioning Editor, Practical Law, you should have:

• Bachelor of Laws from an Australian university or an equivalent law degree from a Commonwealth country with at least 1 year of Australian practicing experience.
• Experience in publishing and/or editorial is desirable.

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:

• Compensation: This position includes a competitive hourly rate
• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected. 
• 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: 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.
• 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: Nine 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. 

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.

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

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