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 provide creative legal advice on thorny multijurisdictional issues often at the intersection of journalism and AI.  This role will work closely with Reuters leadership in New York and London, and in coordination with Thomson Reuters lawyers and staff around the world and can be located in London or Toronto.

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 world’s 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 environment. Responsibilities will also include negotiating media licensing and partnership deals; providing timely, clear and practical advice on legal issues across the media business; 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 
You're 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 in acting in intellectual property matters, especially copyright, including experience counselling on enforcement of IP rights. 
• Are adaptable and prepared to contribute to areas outside core expertise. 
• Have a strong work ethic with ability to work independently, prioritize and meet deadlines and demands in a fast-paced environment. 

 
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. 

 
What's in it For You? 
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through: 

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve 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.
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing. 
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. 
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking. 
• Social Impact: Ten 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. 

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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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