Reporter - Business of Law

Department: Content Editorial & Research | Employment Type: Full Time | Location: Florida | Compensation: $61,000 - $62,000 / year

About the role

As part of Centellic’s global newsroom, the business of law team is focused on covering the news, trends, and issues involving the largest law firms in the world. We deliver breaking news, analysis, and features about issues that impact large and midsize law firms’ business, such as mergers, staffing concerns, geographic expansion, management, and compensation. In the last five years, Miami has become one of the U.S.’s hottest legal markets, as many of the country’s largest law firms have followed private equity, finance, and technology clients relocating to South Florida. You’ll be writing about this vibrant beat primarily for our Florida publication, the Daily Business Review, while also contributing to The American Lawyer, Pro Mid Market, and our other brands.

Responsibilities

• Break news and deliver exclusives on the world’s largest law firms and the business forces shaping them.
• Build and maintain a strong network of sources across law firms, legal industry consultants, recruiters, and other market insiders.
• Cover key developments including leadership changes, law firm finances, compensation, hiring, mergers, strategy, and client trends.
• Use data to identify story ideas, support reporting, and add depth to coverage.
• Analyze datasets related to law firm performance, headcount, revenue, profitability, expansion, and market trends.
• Create or collaborate on charts, graphics, and other visual storytelling elements that help readers understand the story quickly.
• Produce a mix of breaking news, enterprise, analysis, and feature stories.
• Work closely with editors and colleagues across the newsroom to shape coverage that is authoritative, competitive, and distinctive.

Requirements

• Several years of reporting experience, ideally covering legal, financial, business, or professional services sectors.
• A strong track record of breaking news and developing exclusive stories.
• Excellent source-building skills and the ability to cultivate trust with high-level industry contacts.
• Strong news judgment and the ability to spot what matters in a fast-moving, competitive environment.
• Strong writing, reporting, and interviewing skills, with close attention to accuracy and detail.
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to work effectively across a digital newsroom.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience covering the legal industry or major professional services firms.
• Interest in combining traditional beat reporting with investigative and data-driven journalism.

About Centellic

Centellic stands at the center of the markets it serves, empowering organizations with indispensable data and insight to make critical decisions on growth, risk, and opportunity. Through proprietary data, deep market expertise, and AI-enabled technology, our platforms are embedded in client workflows. That capability is underpinned by our events, which bring the market together to share perspective and deepen understanding of the issues shaping each sector. Together, they give organizations earlier visibility of emerging trends and the clarity and confidence to act when decisions matter.

At Centellic, we’re a global intelligence and information services business, setting the standard for how critical business decisions are made. Why Centellic? We help our clients make better decisions, and our people are at the heart of that work. Every individual plays an important role, bringing curiosity and high standards to everything they do. Those who thrive here take ownership, care deeply about their work, and are committed to excellence. Standards are high because our people set them that way. While we have decades of expertise, we are still growing, pushing, and building something extraordinary. Centellic’s advantage is our people and the culture we’ve created together—an environment where individuality is encouraged, relationships are genuine, and there’s a strong sense of purpose in what we’re building together. Collaborative, respectful, and driven, we take our work seriously without taking ourselves too seriously.

Benefits

• 15 vacation days, 12 company holidays, three personal days, one day to volunteer at the organization of your choice, plus a day off for your birthday each year.
• Choice of three Cigna health insurance plans, two dental plans, and vision coverage.
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flex Spending Accounts (FSA).
• Comprehensive wellness program.
• Employer-paid life insurance.
• Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Accident and critical illness insurance.
• 401K and Roth retirement savings plans with employer matching.
• Employee Referral Awards.
• Tuition reimbursement after 1 year of service.
• Commuter Benefits.