Barnes
Insurance Recovery Associate
Los Angeles. Posted 4 months ago
The role
This attorney will represent corporate policyholders in complex insurance coverage litigation, arbitrations, and dispute resolution. The role involves advising clients on recovery strategy and analyzing complex commercial insurance policies.
What you will do
- Represent corporate policyholders in complex insurance coverage litigation, arbitrations, and other dispute resolution proceedings
- Advise clients on insurance recovery strategy and a broad range of coverage issues
- Analyze and interpret complex commercial insurance policies, endorsements, exclusions, and coverage provisions
- Draft coverage analyses, pleadings, motions, briefs, and substantive legal memoranda
- Assist clients in securing defense and indemnity coverage for third-party liability claims and other significant losses
- Work closely with clients, insurers, brokers, adjusters, and underlying defense counsel
- Support all phases of litigation including factual development, discovery, motion practice, and hearing or trial preparation
Required qualifications
- At least 4 years of relevant experience in insurance recovery, insurance coverage litigation, or policyholder-side coverage counseling
- Demonstrated experience representing policyholders and experience counseling clients on insurance recovery
- Excellent legal research, analytical, writing, and oral advocacy skills
- Ability to work independently while also thriving in a collaborative, team-oriented environment
- High degree of professionalism, initiative, sound judgment, and attention to detail
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school with strong academic credentials
- Admission to the applicable state bar and in good standing, or ability to obtain admission promptly
Nice to have
- Federal judicial clerkship experience
About the company
Barnes & Thornburg LLP is an AmLaw 100 firm with 26 offices. The firm and its insurance recovery and counseling group have an exceptional reputation for an inclusive, collegial and supportive atmosphere.