Overview In this role you will manage an active insurance defense caseload and work directly with insurers and long-standing clients. You'll evaluate cases, develop litigation strategy, and handle discovery, hearings, and trials from intake to resolution. You'll collaborate with clients and carriers while gradually building your own client relationships in a supportive, partner-track firm. This opportunity emphasizes substantive courtroom work and strategic case development in a respected legal practice. You'll join a well-established firm that values growth, collaboration, and delivering effective defense outcomes.
Responsibilities- Manage an active litigation caseload from intake through resolution and trial
- Handle all aspects of discovery, depositions, motion practice, hearings, mediations, and trials
- Evaluate cases and develop litigation strategy in partnership with clients and carriers
- Draft pleadings, briefs, motions, and other litigation documents
- Conduct legal research and prepare substantive written work product
- Communicate effectively with clients, adjusters, opposing counsel, and internal team members
- Represent clients in court for hearings, arbitrations, and trials
- Participate in settlement discussions and mediation
Key requirements- 3-7+ years of insurance defense or other transferable defense-side litigation experience
- partnership-track potential
- willingness to build client relationships over time
- not required to bring a pre-existing book of business
- strong communication with clients and carriers
- collaboration with internal teams
- effective negotiation and settlement skills
- insurance defense litigation
- discovery
- depositions
