Litigation Counsel Responsibilities: Will defend litigation throughout New York and frequent travel, with occasional overnight stays, should be expected. Handle all assigned litigation and other legal matters and its policyholders. Litigation work includes case analysis, preparation of motions, pleadings, discovery, conducting depositions, hearings, trials, and communicating with the claims department. Involves a busy, fast-paced, full practice with a mix of commercial property, coverage, and personal injury (including catastrophic injury and wrongful death) cases representing individuals as well as corporate and nonprofit entities. Represent the interests of policyholders with little or no direct supervision. Will demonstrate expertise with a variety of legal concepts, practices, and procedures while relying upon experience and judgment to plan and accomplish job responsibilities and goals. A wide degree of creativity and focus is expected.
Requirements: Graduate from an accredited law school. Licensed or eligible to practice law in Louisiana. Admitted to or eligible for admission to federal court. 5+ years of insurance defense litigation experience required. Trial experience preferred. Prior in-house experience a plus. Able to timely handle full-time, high volume case load with little to no direct supervision. Must be able to competently present a controversy from inception through trial while maintaining the independent professional judgment required of a lawyer.
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