Senior Specialist Legal Editor (Lawyer), Wage and Hour

$132,400 - $246,000/Yr

Thomson Reuters - Eagan, MN

Full-time - Senior

Eagan, MN

10,001+ employees

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About the position

The Senior Specialist Legal Editor (Lawyer) for Wage and Hour at Thomson Reuters is responsible for creating and updating attorney-specific resources related to wage and hour law. This role focuses on expanding the legal know-how materials in various areas of wage and hour standards, including federal and state regulations, litigation, and emerging trends. The position requires a strong background in labor and employment law, particularly in wage and hour litigation defense, and involves collaboration with various teams to ensure the content meets the needs of legal practitioners.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize, draft, and edit original legal know-how materials, including practice notes, annotated standard-form documents, and checklists for online and print publication.
• Monitor and analyze federal, state, and local wage and hour developments as well as current trends in wage and hour standards and legal practice.
• Focus and shape the future of Practical Law's wage and hour content.
• Support Labor & Employment teammates and colleagues on other teams through collaboration, peer review, special projects, and more.
• Collaborate with sales and marketing teams to assist with marketing initiatives, sales demonstrations, the creation of video content, webinars, and more for current and potential subscribers.
• Assist with the development of special projects undertaken by Thomson Reuters and Practical Law.
• Develop and use existing relationships with in-house counsel and legal practitioners to ensure that the wage and hour content is topical and meets their needs.

Requirements

• At least eight years of labor and employment experience specializing in defense-side wage and hour litigation and advice and counsel.
• A solid understanding of the needs of law firm attorneys and corporate counsel with respect to all areas of labor and employment law practice.
• Ability to understand and interpret complex wage and hour concepts, statutory and regulatory language and case law.
• A passion for writing and excellent editing skills, including very close attention to detail, impressive command of grammar, punctuation, and plain English, and the ability to write about complex legal issues clearly and simply.

Nice-to-haves

• Enthusiasm and ambition, with a desire to improve the efficiency of legal services.

Benefits

• 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.
• LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
• Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
• Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match.
• Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave.