Are you seeking a part time, casual legal research focused role? We are looking for a diligent Casual Legal Editor to join our team of experienced editors working on Westlaw and the Australian Digest. In this role you help provide our customers with the most up-to-date and best-in-class legal publications.
As a Legal Editor, you will assist with the delivery of case law content.
**About the role**:
In this new opportunity as Casual Legal Editor, you will:
- Classifying cases in accordance with the Australian Digest classification key.
- Adding case relationships and litigation history to the cases database.
- Writing digest notes for significant cases.
- Verifying and updating cases references.
- Conducting online Quality Assurance; and
- Assisting the Case Law Manager and Senior Legal Editors on specific cases projects.
**About you**:
You're a fit for the role if you have:
- Degree in Law and strong legal research skills and familiarity with Australian legal resources
- Ability to interpret, analyse, organise, and communicate complex legal material
- Strong attention to detail and understanding of its importance from a customer perspective
- Ability to work quickly and accurately under pressure
- Ability to adapt quickly and respond positively to change (a sense of humour helps)
- A commitment to both team and personal goals
- Excellent comprehension and writing skills
- Good verbal communication skills
- Excellent time management skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks and work efficiently
- Editorial experience and familiarity with XML an advantage
**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 (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected
**Wellbeing**: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, 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.
**Culture**:Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
**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**:Ten 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.
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We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
**Accessibility**
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. T