Senior Associate Editor

Senior Associate Editor

Role Summary:
The Senior Associate Editor for the Bankruptcy Team is responsible for working with the senior editors on the Bankruptcy Team to develop high quality summaries of agreements and Bankruptcy Court pleadings, case trackers, and current trends information in specific areas of bankruptcy practice. The Senior Associate Editor may liaise with internal stakeholders including product management, sales, marketing, IT and operations in connection with their duties supporting the Bankruptcy Team.

About the role:

In this opportunity as Senior Associate Editor, you will be responsible for:

• Maintaining What's Market Summary Databases by populating them with new summaries covering:
  • DIP Financing Agreements
  • 363 Sale Motion Pleadings
• Maintaining and updating What's Market Trends materials covering the following topics:
• KEIPS and KERPS
• Key Terms in Restructuring Support Agreements
• Services and Compensation for Non-Legal Advisors
• DIP Financing Terms
• Deal Protections and Bidding Procedures in Section 363 Sales
• Post-Confirmation Trusts
• Maintaining Bankruptcy Case Trackers: Regularly maintaining the following trackers, which follow bankruptcy cases in different industries:
• Chapter 15 Case Tracker
• Active Retail Case Tracker
• Cryptocurrency Case Tracker
• Energy Industry Tracker
• Fraud Tracker
• Healthcare Industry Tracker
• Mass Tort Tracker
• Media and Telecommunications Industry Tracker
• Transportation Industry Tracker

In maintaining these trackers, the Senior Associate Editor researches the cases to be included in the trackers and, for each case, summarizes the business, the cause of financial problems, and the purpose of the bankruptcy filing (including links to relevant pleadings).

• Updating Chapter 15 Guides: The Senior Associate Editor updates and maintains Guides to Chapter 15 Recognition of foreign restructuring and insolvency proceeding from various countries.
• Monitoring DOJ Activity in Bankruptcy Cases. The Senior Associate Editor maintains a resource regarding federal agencies that intervene in bankruptcy cases (besides the US Trustee's Office).

About You:

You're a fit for the role of Senior Associate Editor, if your background includes:

• A J.D. and current license to practice law in at least one US jurisdiction
• Minimum of two (2) years relevant professional experience practicing as an attorney in the US concentrating on bankruptcy, restructuring or insolvency matters in a law firm and/or corporate law department
• Strong knowledge of the legal industry preferred
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to build trusted relationships with colleagues
• Excellent organizational and project management skills
• Self-starter with ability to work independently and within a team environment
• Problem solving and analytical thinking skills
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Fluent English language skills (written and spoken)
• Understanding of legal terminology and concepts

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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 cafe 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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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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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 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 country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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