Senior Legal Editor

We are seeking a business tax lawyer to join the Practical Law Tax team in the UK.

Practical Law is a leading online know-how service providing rigorous, peer-reviewed resources, including practice notes, current awareness and standard documents to help legal professionals work more efficiently 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 senior editor in Practical Law Tax, you will use your specialist legal knowledge of business tax to provide and maintain a wide range of content. Working in a supportive team of highly experienced colleagues, you will deal with a breadth of interesting legal and editorial work including:

Analysing the latest legal, regulatory and policy developments, deciding which items to cover and to what extent
Creating new and maintaining existing materials in a variety of formats
Commissioning, reviewing and editing content written by both colleagues in Practical Law and our external contributors
Answering legal questions submitted by subscribers daily through the Ask service
Meeting with customers and industry experts to maintain and build understanding of the latest developments and trends in tax law and practice

In addition to this, a senior editor will assist:

With marketing the Practical Law Tax Law service and engaging with subscribers
The wider Thomson Reuters team (including Sweet & Maxwell, Lawtel and Westlaw), liaising with sales, marketing product management, technology and segment functions where necessary

About you

The successful candidate is likely to have:

Substantial post qualification experience (England & Wales) in either a law firm, in-house or at the bar
A demonstrable interest and ability in writing
In-depth understanding of business tax

We are happy to discuss remote / hybrid working.