Attorney Editor | Product Research

Position Overview

Thomson Reuters is seeking an Attorney Editor. In this role, you'll research and analyze procedural authorities across jurisdictions to identify docketable deadlines and translate them into structured rules sets used for legal calendaring. You'll write clear event narratives and calculations with supporting citations, document editorial decisions, and collaborate with the team to deliver accurate, timely releases.

About the Role:

In this opportunity, as an **Attorney Editor,**you will:

• Analyze procedural laws, statutes, court rules, administrative orders, and standing orders at multiple jurisdictional levels to identify and isolate docketable deadlines, using Westlaw and official court websites to gather and verify source materials.

• Draft, review, and maintain hierarchical rules sets for legal calendaring across jurisdictions and subject matters, applying technical standards for rule coding, calculation fields, authority citation formats, and inheritance structures.

• Write clear, consistent event narratives, deadline calculations, and supporting legal citations for procedural requirements, and document decisions regarding inclusion/exclusion of deadlines with detailed records of sources and rationale.

• Periodically review released rules sets to incorporate amendments, modifications, and new legal/procedural requirements, staying current on developments affecting calendaring.

• Adhere to production schedules, release cycles, and quality standards established by the Rules Calendaring Team, maintaining high quality through objective metrics, peer/manager review, and client feedback.

• Collaborate with rules writers, reviewers, managers, and information coordinators to draft, review, and release rules sets, participating in regular team meetings to discuss issues and share best practices.

• Conduct thorough self-review and peer review to ensure accuracy, completeness, consistency, and proper organization of rules sets and related documentation.

• Participate in training, feedback, evaluation, and performance development processes, and contribute to special projects, training efforts, and/or client support as assigned.

About You:

You're a fit for the role of an Attorney Editor if your background includes:

• Attorney-level background with proven legal research and legal writing abilities.

• Must be a licensed attorney in good standing (bar admission required).

• It would be nice to have experience with U.S. litigation, including familiarity with relevant procedures and the ability to manage deadline-driven requirements.

• Strong attention to detail, analytical skills, and sound judgment in interpreting authorities and making inclusion/exclusion decisions.

• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.

• Comfort working within structured editorial standards, production schedules, and evolving tools/technologies.

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• 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 flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, 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 flexible vacation, 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.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. 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.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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