Senior Counsel, Reuters
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Senior Counsel Reuters
Thomson Reuters is hiring a global media lawyer to support Reuters News. This is a unique role with the successful candidate being an experienced commercial lawyer who is able to negotiate complex media/technology deals as well as to partner in providing creative legal advice on thorny multijurisdictional matters across copyright data privacy AI regulation and other areas. This role will work with Reuters leadership in New York and London and in coordination with Thomson Reuters lawyers and staff around the world.
Thomson Reuters provides legal tax accounting and compliance professionals with the tools and information they need to empower people and decision-making. Its media business Reuters is the worlds leading international news agency reaching more than one billion people every day and delivering real-time award-winning news coverage to news and media organizations brands and consumers. Reuters covers a broad range of topics including business finance politics sports and technology. The hallmarks of Reuters journalism are speed impartiality and insight.
About The Role
As Senior Counsel for Reuters your primary responsibility will be to support the growth of relationships between Reuters and its clients and partners in a fast-evolving global will also include negotiating media licensing and partnership deals; providing timely clear and practical advice on a wide range of legal issues across the media business including on actual or potential disputes; supporting business stakeholders in analysing novel technologies and use cases through a legal lens; ensuring compliance with the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles which reflect our commitment to integrity independence and freedom from bias; and tracking global legal developments affecting the interests of news and media businesses.
About you
Youre a fit for the role of Senior Counsel Reuters if you:
- Are a current practicing lawyer (with a current bar admission/practising certificate).
- Have substantial post-qualification experience negotiating media licensing deals and advising clients in news/media/information/technology industries.
- Have the ability to advocate for the interests of business partners in commercial disputes.
- Have a depth and breadth of experience advising on intellectual property matters especially copyright including experience counselling on enforcement of IP rights.
- Are adaptable and prepared to contribute to areas outside core expertise and across jurisdictions.
- Have a strong work ethic with ability to work independently prioritize and meet deadlines and demands in a fast-paced written and verbal communication skills in English.
- High level of integrity and professionalism.
It would also be desirable if you have:
- Understanding of AI/ML technologies.
- Experience communicating across diverse geographies and cultures as part of a global team.
- Prior in-house legal experience
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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.
About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal tax accounting compliance government and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data intelligence and solutions needed to make informed decisions and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice truth and transparency. Reuters part of Thomson Reuters is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
As a global business we rely on the unique backgrounds perspectives and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 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. More information on requesting an accommodation here.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
