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Legal Editor, Westlaw Japan
Edit Japanese legal materials and improve the metadata and quality of Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw Japan research database. Work with legal contributors and cross-functional teams to develop and maintain content.
Description
- Edit and maintain statutes, case law, books, journals, articles, and news in the legal database.
- Organize and link content, add search metadata, and improve database usability.
- Review material before publication, protect database integrity, and uphold and refine quality standards.
- Work with lawyers, academics, editors, professional bodies, government agencies, and other contributors.
- Manage assigned projects and check the quality of work from external authors.
- Refine editorial systems and procedures, using generative AI to improve efficiency while checking outputs for legal accuracy and policy compliance.
- Advise on content for new products and improvements to existing products.
- Work with product, technology, sales, and international editorial teams to address customer feedback.
- Contribute to Westlaw Japan, Thomson Reuters’ online legal research service for Japanese law.
Requirements
- A law degree or equivalent legal knowledge from practice or legal editing.
- Ability to interpret the structure of statutes and case law accurately.
- Japanese proficiency to read, interpret, and edit Japanese statutes, case law, and legal commentary.
- Excellent Japanese writing and proofreading skills.
- Strong communication skills, including clear, consistent reporting and follow-up.
- Attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines.
- Conversational English sufficient for email and meetings with international teams.
- Basic computer skills, including editorial systems and Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Willingness to adopt tools and technologies such as generative AI.
- Preferred: A JD from a Japanese law school or a law master’s degree or higher.
- Preferred: Legal credentials such as passing the Japanese bar examination or registration as a judicial, administrative, or patent scrivener.
- Preferred: Editing experience with a legal publisher or legal information service.
- Preferred: Experience commissioning content and working with external practitioners, professional bodies, and government agencies.
- Preferred: Experience with structured documents such as XML and building classification systems using basic programming skills.
- Preferred: Experience using generative AI tools in editorial work.
- Preferred: Experience balancing competing priorities and resolving editorial issues to meet publication deadlines.
Benefits
- Hybrid work, with 2–3 office days per week depending on the role.
- Work from anywhere for up to eight weeks per year.
- Flexible vacation.
- Two company-wide mental health days off.
- Access to the Headspace app.
- Retirement savings.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Employee incentive programs.
- Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Two paid volunteer days each year.
- Opportunities to join pro bono consulting projects and ESG initiatives.
- Career development, ongoing learning, and skills development through Grow My Way programming.
- Flexible work arrangements and work-life balance support.