Lawyer Writer

Do you work as a **commercial lawyer** within a top or mid-tier law firm or in-house team? Have you got experience advising across a wide range of commercial legal topics like data protection, marketing and advertising law, supply chain, technology, outsourcing and IP laws?

Practical Law is the legal know-how solution from Thomson Reuters that provides more than 130,000+ lawyers worldwide a time-saving head start. Lawyers in law firms and legal departments across the world depend on Practical Law's market-leading legal guidance tool to advise with confidence and efficiency using our practical guides, precedents, and legal updates. Practical Law's quality starts with its people.

You will be working alongside the Practical Law New Zealand Lead who is based in Wellington and who has substantial practising experience. You will be backed up by the high calibre team of lawyer writers at Practical Law Australia.

As Lawyer Writer, Practical Law New Zealand, you will be passionate about sharing your knowledge to provide practising lawyers with high quality, useful and up to date content relevant to their special requirements. The innovative work environment at Thomson Reuters, Practical Law spans both the legal and technology industries, and offers genuine work life balance within a supportive and inclusive culture.

**About the role**:
In this new role of Lawyer Writer, Practical Law New Zealand, you will:

- Keep up to-date with commercial law topics and monitor legal, practice and market developments relevant to lawyers both in private practice and in-house environments.
- Plan, research, write, adapt, edit and maintain premium quality commercial know-how resources including practice notes, standard documents, checklists and drafting notes for lawyers.
- Support internal peer review processes to ensure content is legally correct, kept continuously updated and maintained to reflect all relevant legal developments and reflect current market practice.
- Meet with external customers, industry and sector experts to build a superior understanding of commercial law and related developments to ensure relevant and premium quality content is delivered that anticipates, meets and exceeds customer needs.
- Maintain relationships with the market to ensure the highest standards of content relevancy and currency.
- Assist in the development and publication of commissioned content authored by commercial lawyers in private practice and in-house legal teams.

**About You**:
To be successful in this role you will need to meet following requirements:

- Admitted to practice as a lawyer in New Zealand, with a minimum of 3 years PQE experience, working as a commercial lawyer, most recently in a top/mid-tier private practice or in-house role.
- Confidence to work closely with our commercial law private practice and in-house client base to ensure Practical Law content is up to date with changing demands, legal trends and developments.
- A genuine and demonstrable interest in commercial law and helping re-invent the way legal know-how works. Bonus points for having published articles in prior roles.
- Have a keen interest in engaging with new methods of providing content e.g., podcasts, social media, video content etc.
- Strong project management and problem-solving skills, and an ability to work cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently and communicate effectively with your manager (located in Wellington) and the rest of the Practical Law team.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills. A keen ability to articulate and present your ideas, strategies and decisions.
- A proactive, “get it done” mindset, always looking for solutions and not shy about pursuing them.
- Positive attitude, team-orientated, flexible, and analytical. Attention to detail is a must.

**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**: Currently the majority of our employees are working within a hybrid environment consisting of in-office and remote work, and following local COVID-19 bylaws and guidelines.
- ** 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: company-wide Mental Health Day Off; 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) initia