Senior Legal Editor, Practical Law Tax
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.
What’s in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:
Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
Social Impact: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet 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.