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Senior Writer - Practical Law, Employment

Are you keen to move from law practice? Do you love writing and enjoy deep dive research? Join Thomson Reuters Practical law Employment team.

Why do we have this role?
Practical Law is a time-saving online legal guidance and know-how solution. It is relatively new to Australia, despite its deep history in the United Kingdom and the United States. We're still growing our local offering, and we're looking for a creative, commercial, experienced employment lawyer to help us expand and deepen our employment law content offering.

About Practical Law
Practical Law empowers law firms and legal departments to act with confidence by relying on up-to-date practical guides, precedents, and legal updates that help them navigate their way through legal issues and focus their deeper research. Practical Law's content is created by a high calibre team comprised of ex-top tier and senior in-house lawyers with substantial practicing experience.

Key responsibilities:
Under direction from the Head Writer of the Practical Law Employment Team, the Senior Writer will write, review, commission, maintain, and mentor junior members of the team to produce, high quality content for the Employment Law area. This includes (but is not limited to):

o practice notes

o standard documents

o drafting notes

o checklists

o current awareness updates

o case reports

o trend reports.

You will:
• Maintain currency and expertise across all jurisdictions of Australian Employment Law.
• Monitor developments and trends in human resources and people management issues and maintain processes to ensure the currency of the Employment Law area.
• Contribute to innovative plans for future employment law content to be published.
• Develop creative strategies for the dissemination of content, including the use of social media, to build and maintain Practical Law’s customer base

Key Criteria:
• Minimum 5+ years' PQE working as an employment and/or industrial relations lawyer, or comparable experience, in practice or in an in-house counsel role.
• Sound understanding of the Australian legal market and of the needs and priorities of law firms and in-house counsel.
• An understanding of the challenges facing human resource and people management professionals.
• An understanding of Australia's workplace relations system and the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth).
• An innate curiosity, interest and passion for learning about and writing on legal topics.
• Excellent project management, research, technical, drafting and communication skills.
• Good knowledge of legal research databases