Legal Data Editor
Ready to leverage your legal expertise to help Australian organisations stay ahead of legislative changes?
TimeBase, now part of Thomson Reuters, has been a trusted authority on Australian legislation for more than 30 years. Our mission is clear: to provide the most comprehensive and reliable platform to find, search, track, and understand legislation. Backed by a dedicated team of legally trained editors, we ensure our services are intuitive, accurate, and always up to date.
As a Legal Data Editor, you will monitor legislative and parliamentary sources and accurately update our datasets so users in law firms, government agencies, universities and corporates can rely on the most current, accurate and useful legislative information and tools.
About the Role
* Accurately enter legislation for your jurisdiction into the LawTracker database.
* Monitor Bill progress through relevant Parliaments.
* Adhere to quality and copyright standards.
* Maintain downloads to reflect the most recent compilations of legislation in the dataset.
* Double check other jurisdictions to ensure accuracy.
* Complete daily checks of the email alerts to ensure that legislation has been processed correctly.
* Sorting and entering cases into the CaseTracker systems.
About You
* Has a law degree or is a recent law graduate.
* Sharp eye for detail and accuracy.
* Good computer skills and feel comfortable learning new programs (on the job training provided).
* Demonstrated interest in all aspects of the law and the legislative process.
* Self‐motivated, and can work effectively on your own and within a team.
* Knowledge of the Australian legal system and parliamentary procedures.
* Ability to manage and prioritise tasks.
Additional preferred qualifications include
* Ability to work under pressure and meet firm deadlines.
* Ability to analyse and summarise complex legal concepts into concise outlines for legislative entries.
* Accuracy and attention to detail.
What's in it For You?
* 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.
* Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
* Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI‐enabled future.
* Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company‐wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
* Culture: Globally recognized, award‐winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work‐life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
* Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro‐bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
* Making a Real‐World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally 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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