Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thomson Reuters is the most trusted name in legal intelligence. The Director, Legal Industry Programs builds and leads TR's institutional presence across the professional legal community, developing the programs and partnerships that make CoCounsel the AI platform the legal profession publicly recommends and trusts.
Responsibilities
- Build TR's presence as a substantive partner to state, local, and specialty bar associations — developing co-branded CLE programs on AI competency and ethics, supporting bar AI task forces and ethics committees with content and expertise, and establishing CoCounsel as the named platform in bar-endorsed AI training
- Develop CoCounsel's role in the access to justice ecosystem — partnering with legal aid organizations, pro bono programs, and public interest law groups to extend AI-assisted legal services to underserved communities. Build the programs and proof points that establish TR as the company using AI to expand access to legal help
- Build relationships and programming with specialty and affinity bar associations — including those representing diverse attorney populations — as well as practice-area focused legal organizations where AI adoption decisions are being made at the community level
- Cultivate TR's presence in the growing legal innovation practitioner community — chief innovation officers, legal tech leads at major firms, and the legal AI influencer ecosystem that shapes how the profession thinks about adoption. Develop programming, forums, and content partnerships that position CoCounsel as the platform legal innovators recommend to their peers
- Build the mechanism that routes program outputs — bar association endorsements, co-authored ethics frameworks, pro bono case studies, community program outcomes — into TR's marketing, communications, and sales teams so that institutional credibility shows up in every customer conversation
Skills
- 8+ years in legal industry programs, bar association work, legal aid, access to justice, professional services, or a closely adjacent field — with direct experience building programs and institutional partnerships, not just managing events
- Genuine existing relationships — or a specific, fast path to building them — within bar associations, legal aid organizations, specialty legal communities, or the legal innovation ecosystem
- Understanding of the bar association landscape: how state bars operate, how CLE accreditation works, how ethics committees and task forces function, and how organizations at this level make partnership decisions
- Comfort at the intersection of institutional relationship-building and commercial accountability — you understand that the goal of every program is ultimately credibility that drives pipeline
- Strong written communication: you can write a CLE co-sponsorship proposal and a community program pitch in the same week
- Genuine commitment to access to justice as a program priority, not just a narrative vehicle
- JD or deep legal industry fluency strongly preferred
Benefits
- 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.
- Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
- 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.
- 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.
- Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
- Two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
- Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs.
- Competitive 401k plan with company match.
- Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave.
- 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.
- Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.
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