Senior Legal Counsel

Thomson Reuters' Government segment is a $650M+ business that provides critical information and solutions tailored for government agencies and corporations, focusing on delivering reliable data, advanced analytics, and innovative technology to support decision-making and enhance operational efficiency. By offering expertise in areas such as legal, regulatory, and compliance information, TR aids government entities in navigating complex challenges, improving transparency, and fostering informed governance. Designed to meet the unique needs of public sector clients, TR's solutions ensure access to essential tools and insights required for effective administration and policy implementation. As the most trusted source for government to make critical decisions, TR helps organizations, communities, and people stay safe and thrive by enabling government professionals to deliver crucial services, such as ensuring proper tax collection, detecting threats, conducting investigations, and balancing increasing case volumes with changing public expectations.

Role Summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a lawyer with a proven record of a practical, problem-solving approach to providing commercial legal services in a technology-enabled, data-driven corporate legal department for government contracts.

Specifically, we are looking for a lawyer experienced with various contracting vehicles, complex partnership arrangements, and negotiating complex compliance terms (e.g., FedRamp, Accessibility). The successful candidate will be a hands-on commercial lawyer with exceptional communication skills, capable of providing sound legal and business advice and counsel to sales professionals, product management, and other internal customers.

In this role, the lawyer will be responsible for identifying and analyzing legal issues, drafting and negotiating documents, presenting commercially viable recommendations, and assuring legal compliance for government contracts. When dealing with internal or external customers, the successful candidate will seek to enhance the customer experience and simplify interactions with the legal function.

The role sits within the Customers & Commercial team of the Thomson Reuters General Counsel's Office, a highly collaborative team focused on enabling business growth and mitigating risk for the customer-centric commercial group. This is a hybrid role, based in Eagan, MN; McLean, VA; or Dallas (Frisco), TX.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Senior Legal Counsel, Government, you will:

• Review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of customer-facing and partnership agreements, primarily complex software (including SaaS) and information licensing agreements, re-distribution, hosting, content acquisition, consulting and professional services agreements, non- disclosure agreements and other commercial agreements relating to sales of Thomson Reuters products and services

• Work within the Government and broader Customers & Commercial teams to identify legal, regulatory and compliance requirements and risks associated with various business initiatives and developing and implementing appropriate mitigation strategies

• Provide practical and insightful business and strategic advice, leveraging experience in the practice of law and the legal profession

• Research and respond to general legal inquiries from internal customers that relate to corporate, commercial, intellectual property and compliance matters, including privacy-related matters, and advise business on appropriate legal action to be taken

• Operate within policy guidelines and requirements set for Thomson Reuters lawyers to ensure compliance and consistency

• Contribute know-how to the group's Knowledge Management initiatives and help to build an open knowledge sharing culture

• Work with members of the General Counsel's Office on enterprise- wide legal issues and projects

• Undertake other reasonable duties as requested

About You

You're a fit for the role of Senior Legal Counsel, Government, if your background includes:

• At least 5 years post-qualification experience in private practice and/or as in-house legal counsel advising on the sell side of government procurements and negotiating complex commercial partnerships where the government is the end-user

• JD required

• Excellent technical legal knowledge in government contract and commercial law, particularly with SaaS products and solutions, including Gen AI products and solutions

• Familiarity with various contracting vehicles including cooperative agreements, RFPs, GSA Schedules, and Fedlink orders

• Ability to think strategically and creatively, to identify and resolve legal issues; desire and ability to quickly learn about Thomson Reuters' products and services, and its internal processes and organizational structure

• Excellent communication, negotiation, drafting, organization, and analytical skills, and an aptitude for finding solutions

• Experience and/or interest in using AI tools and other legal technology

• Demonstrated ability to successfully work in a team environment and in a matrixed organization; juggle multiple matters at once and work independently in a fast-paced environment and exercise sound judgment on when to seek additional support to identify and solve

• Authorized to practice law in the relevant jurisdiction or jurisdictions

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What's in it For You?

• 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.

• 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 tomorrow's 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.

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. 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.

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