Legal Intern

Job Description
Are you looking for an internship that provides real-world-project experience, networking with employees and executives worldwide, while growing your talents on a supportive and inclusive team? If so, we want to connect with you!
At Thomson Reuters, we deliver content-driven solutions and artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help our customers in the legal, tax, accounting, corporate, news, and media fields, to make decisions that move society forward. By joining us, you will make your mark in one of WayUp's Top 100 Internship Programs of 2024, with opportunities for working with industry-leading products.
We are seeking a motivated law student to work on legal content and research projects within Practical Law. This internship will have a flexible schedule that adapts to the academic calendar. During the school year, you will work remotely 12-15 hours a week. In the summer, you will transition to a full-time schedule with a hybrid arrangement, spending one or two days in the office and the remainder of the week working remotely. The pay for this internship is $20/hour.

About the Role
In this opportunity as a Legal Intern, you will:

• Draft and edit content such as legal updates, in addition to analyzing and summarizing changes to primary law.

• Engage in quality assurance and review of content and linking while providing additional support to Practical Law teams.

• Interact with technology, including Practical Law's publishing platform, tools, and site.

• Learn about alternative legal career paths from Practical Law's team of highly experienced and credentialed staff of attorney editors.

• Benefit from a flexible schedule of 10 - 20 hours per week during school terms, and up to 40 hours per week during the summer and while on breaks.

About You

• You are a fit for the role of Legal Intern if you:

• Have completed the first or second year of an ABA-accredited law school (Required)

• Demonstrate strong legal research, writing, and analytical skills.

• Possess a high level of technical acumen.

• Interpret, analyze, organize, and express complex legal material quickly and accurately.

• Possess exceptional communication skills, both oral and written.

• Can work independently, consistently meet deadlines, and achieve individual objectives within larger team projects.

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What's in it For You?
At Thomson Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

• 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 Days 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 cafe 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.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we've been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

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. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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