Legal Counsel

We are seeking a highly motivated qualified or recently practicing commercial lawyer with deep experience in SaaS contracting and a strong understanding of AI-related legal considerations to join our Knowledge & Policy Team within the GCO Customers & Commercial Practice Group. This is a specialist role focused on maintaining and constantly innovating our customer contracting framework including our terms and conditions playbooks template agreements and know-how materials. Youll help strategically shape how our legal team negotiates and drafts by ensuring we provide state of the art clear practical and commercially aligned guidance.

About The Role:

In this opportunity as Legal Counsel you will:

• Stay on top of modern cloud and SaaS developments draft and update template contracts clauses and supporting guidance using industry best practices ensuring alignment with evolving business and legal risk appetite

• Maintain and continuously improve/innovate our customer contract playbook including fallback positions and rationale for use in negotiations with an aim to enhance the customer experience and shorten the journey to signature

• Partner with legal team members to remove friction or ambiguity in contracting bring speed create real leverage and propose clear scalable improvements to create the best contracting experience in the industry for our customers

• Monitor legal developments and market trends particularly in SaaS and AI and translate them into actionable guidance for the legal team

• Support knowledge-sharing initiatives and lead the creation and delivery of resources to inspire and upskill legal colleagues

• Act as an owner on contracting positions helping drive consistency and quality in negotiations across the legal team

• Collaborate cross-functionally with legal sales commercial policy and risk & compliance teams to ensure playbook positions reflect broader business objectives

About You:

Youre a fit for the role of Legal Counsel if your background includes:

• A JD (or equivalent experience) with substantial in-house or law firm experience negotiating complex SaaS and technology contracts

• Deep understanding of key contracting issues in SaaS including data privacy liability IP AI use and service levels

• Strong drafting skills and a passion for innovating contracts using clear concise and user-friendly legal language

• Practical and commercial mindset with the ability to translate legal risk into business-aligned guidance

• Genuine desire to move into a strategic knowledge support role

• A self-starter with a genuine interest in legal innovation transformation know-how process improvement consistency and enabling scalable legal support.

• Collaborative curious and communicative with experience working in or alongside policy legal operations or knowledge management teams

• Experience developing or managing a legal playbook or knowledge hub is highly desired

• Familiarity with generative AI use cases in legal contracting or legal tech tools is highly desired

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Whats in it For You

• Hybrid Work Model: Weve 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 tomorrows 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.

In the United States Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health dental vision disability and life insurance programs as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation sick and safe paid time off paid holidays (including two company mental health days off) parental leave sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations unless otherwise noted the base compensation range for this role is $116900 - $217100. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individuals knowledge skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.

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