Senior Legal Industry Reporter - California

About the role

This role can be performed in San Francisco or Los Angeles. Law360 is seeking a senior reporter to cover the legal industry in California and the wider adoption of legal technology and artificial intelligence across law firms, courts and regulators.

Responsibilities

• Generate scoops and produce breaking news stories on major developments in the legal industry.
• Write deeper analytic pieces and enterprise reporting that puts developments into context.
• Cover the rise of generative AI and the broader transformation of legal services through technology.
• Cultivate a network of sources across the legal tech ecosystem, including law firm leaders, startup founders, investors, consultants, academics, and regulators.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, compelling journalism for a sophisticated legal audience.
• Juggle daily news and longer-term features and enterprise reporting.

Requirements

• Possess at least five years of full-time, paid reporting experience.
• Demonstrated reporting and writing skills.
• Comprehensive understanding of the tech landscape, AI, SaaS and related topics.
• Experience working a beat.
• Collaborative approach and desire to follow the news.
• Able to juggle daily news and longer-term features and enterprise reporting.

Preferences

• Experience covering the legal industry, including in-house legal departments, law firms, legal associations and regulators, legal technology and artificial intelligence.
• Experience reporting for a professional audience.
• Ability to generate scoops, write breaking news stories and deeper analytic pieces.
• Ability and openness to regularly meet with tech, law firm and other sources.

Benefits

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Health Benefits: Comprehensive program for medical, dental and vision benefits.
• Retail Benefits: 401(k) with match.
• Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs.
• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity.
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves.
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts.
• Annual Paid Time Off, up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice.