Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Capital Markets(Startups)

About the role

We are seeking an experienced capital markets lawyer with significant experience advising startups to join Practical Law’s Capital Markets & Corporate Governance team in the US.

Responsibilities

• Researching, drafting, and maintaining clear, current, and practical legal know-how content addressing the needs of startup companies for Practical Law and other Thomson Reuters products and initiatives in alignment with market practice, customer needs, and business objectives, using a variety of evolving tools, formats, and content development methods.
• Monitoring legal, practice, and market developments impacting startups to ensure personal skills and expertise and that our content remains relevant and accurate.
• Using your legal expertise to support the development of customer-focused AI-powered tools, including identifying and implementing methods that address the intersection of content development and AI-driven legal solutions.
• Partnering with Product Management to innovate on tech development, product enhancements, and the integration of AI into TR's offerings.
• Using your legal expertise and writing skills to support the development and application of internal AI editorial tools.
• Establishing and maintaining relationships with external law firm contributors and industry groups to ensure content reflects market practice and meets customer needs.
• Supporting sales, marketing, and other parts of the business, including responding to customer inquiries.

Qualifications

• JD required.
• Minimum of eight (8) years' experience working as a lawyer in a law firm or in-house with a significant amount of experience working with startup companies.
• Strong technical skills and the ability to effectively utilize various tools, including generative AI technologies, to enhance productivity and accuracy.
• Demonstrated adaptability and flexibility to work on diverse projects and tasks within the generative AI space as well as new and emerging technologies.
• Deep curiosity about the increasing intersection of AI and legal practice, with a desire to build legal prompt engineering skills and innovative content development methods that optimize AI responses for specific legal tasks.
• Understand current market issues and proposals to enact, amend, or change laws and regulations impacting US startups.
• Understand the needs and priorities of law firm attorneys, in-house counsel, and other startups professionals.
• Skill and passion for writing and the ability to write about complex legal issues clearly and concisely in plain English.
• Innovative, agile thinker with excellent time management, organizational skills, and demonstrated project management.
• Enthusiasm for working on a dynamic editorial team, comfortable working in an environment of rapid change, and a passion for exploring how AI can revolutionize editorial content creation.

Benefits

This role can be located out of a home office anywhere in the United States if the candidate does not live near a Thomson Reuters office.