Description:

An Insurance Company's Legal Department is expanding its NY footprint with the addition of a Litigation Counsel position. As Litigation Counsel, you will join our Northeast Regional team which defends An Insurance Company's insureds in and around New York City, New Jersey, and Connecticut. To be successful in this position, you need to be a self-starter, highly organized, focused, detail-oriented, and willing to travel for single-day trips and occasionally overnight. This role requires you to have technical proficiency and experience defending bodily injury, personal injury, first-party property damage, wrongful death, insurance coverage, employment practices, extra-contractual/ bad faith litigation, and subrogation. This is a full-time position with no billable hour obligations.

Responsibilities:

This position will defend litigation throughout New York and some travel, with occasional overnight stays, as needed for case appearances and for the annual team meeting.
The position may also defend litigation in New Jersey or other jurisdictions (where admitted or on a pro hac vice basis).
The primary function of An Insurance Company Litigation Counsel is to handle all assigned litigation and other legal matters for An Insurance Company and its policyholders.
Litigation work includes but is not limited to case analysis, preparation of motions, pleadings, discovery, conducting depositions, hearings, trials, appeals and communicating with the claims department.
The candidate must be able to competently present a controversy from inception through trial or appeal while maintaining the independent professional judgment required of a lawyer.
Litigation Counsel handles a a mix of commercial property, coverage disputes, and personal injury (including catastrophic injury and wrongful death) cases representing individuals as well as corporate and nonprofit entities.
Other duties as assigned, including but not limited to meetings, training, legislative updates, writing articles and publications, EUOs, SIU investigation, and other corporate legal functions.
Qualified candidates will be eligible to either work remotely from home or at a physical office in a convenient location.

The Litigation Counsel must possess the requisite experience, skill, and judgment required to represent the interests of An Insurance Company and its policyholders with little or no direct supervision. The individual will demonstrate expertise with a variety of legal concepts, practices, and procedures while relying upon his or her experience and judgment to plan and accomplish job responsibilities and goals.

Requirements:

Licensed to practice law in New York.
Licensed or eligible to obtain a license to practice law in New Jersey.
A J.D. from an accredited law school.
Five or more years of insurance defense litigation experience required.
Trial experience preferred.
Admitted to or eligible for admission to federal court.
Able to efficiently handle high-value case load with little to no direct supervision.
Frequent travel required, with some overnight stays, including a weeklong team meeting.
Prior in-house experience a plus.
CPCU or insurance-related designation a plus.