Insurance Coverage & Litigation Attorney (2-5 years)
Insurance Coverage & Litigation Attorney (2-5 years)
Locations: 2 in Los Angeles
Salary Range: $160,000- $180,000
Admission: California
Client Size: 5,000+
Client Description:
Our client is a leading global law firm, helping organizations successfully navigate risk and maximize opportunity in the sectors that underpin global trade and commercial activity and enable global prosperity, namely: insurance, aviation, marine, construction, energy, trade, and natural resources. Globally integrated, our client offers a comprehensive range of contentious and non-contentious legal services and commercially minded legal advice to businesses operating across the world.
Position Description:
Our client has an opportunity for an attorney with at least 4 years of insurance coverage and coverage litigation experience to join their practice in California. Their team is passionate about their practice and committed to efficiently and effectively meeting client driven deadlines.
Responsibilities:
- Taking depositions, arguing motions, and attending court hearings and mediations as required
- Drafting motions, pleadings, briefs, discovery requests and interrogatories, and other legal correspondence and litigation documents
- Preparing coverage opinions
- Conducting complex and rigorous legal research and analysis, and drafting memoranda
- Preparing status reports and recommendations to clients
- Reviewing document collections in preparation for litigation
- Working on all aspects of litigation, from the initial responsive pleading through trial
Qualifications:
- The ideal candidate will have insurance coverage and coverage litigation experience
- State and Federal court experience
- Excellent academic credentials and work history
- Superior writing, and analytical skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to handle matters of a highly sensitive nature
- Ability to handle time sensitive matters, sometimes several simultaneously
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Ability to identify and resolve problems quickly.
- Strong work ethic
- Attention to detail
- Capable of working within a team