[Remote] Counsel, Global Legal & Compliance
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Liberty Mutual Insurance is seeking a highly motivated and qualified Attorney to join their Global Legal & Compliance Department's Outside Counsel Partnerships group. The role involves providing legal advice on litigation management, overseeing national law firms, and ensuring adherence to legal and business ethics while managing legal spend and firm performance.
Responsibilities
- Provide legal advice, guidance, and recommendations on all aspects of litigation management to the Company, including actionable strategies to enhance litigated case outcomes and cost control and oversight, analysis, and management of law firms to drive innovative solutions
- Performance oversight of national firms and managed panels, including multi-dimensional scorecard assessment, KPI reviews, capability assessments, action plan development & execution to drive optimal legal expertise and adherence to best practices, protocols, and SLAs
- Performance oversight of national firms and managed panels, including addressing strategic use and handling, panel placement and composition by lines of business, venue, and expertise, firm selection, onboarding, cybersecurity assessments, technological capabilities, and removal
- Negotiating competitive pricing by conducting competitive rate analysis and negotiation, holistic state analysis, Alternative Fee Arrangement development & negotiation and discount program analysis and implementation
- Legal consultation to address outside counsel issues, including conducting analysis and developing strategy to handle complex issues (e.g., legal malpractice, Tort Reform, Legal System Abuse, case mishandling, independent counsel, and other legal & litigation matters)
- Partnering with Claims, Underwriting, Global Legal, and other stakeholders on complex and routine legal issues and unique panel projects and strategic alignment, providing legal guidance on litigation management issues, analysis of firm performance, and negotiation of complex disputes and formulating strategy
- Regular use of metrics and legal analytics to help advise strategy, drive quality legal services, savings, and opportunities on legal handling, spend, and outcomes
- This position provides frequent opportunities to interface with Liberty employees and managers at various levels across the Liberty organization
- The successful candidate must possess high standards of legal and business ethics, litigation experience, and professional responsibility
- Participate in multiple SCLM, Claims, and Global Legal department strategic initiatives
- Solid communication and presentation skills
- Heightened knowledge of defense and insurance litigation
- Maintain current knowledge of legal issues and developments in the law
Skills
- Completion of law school with a J.D. or L.L.B. degree and admission to the bar of at least one jurisdiction in the United States required
- Generally, requires at least five years' experience as a practicing attorney experienced in all aspects of litigation, including trials
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Experienced in complex and non-complex negotiations, including throughout all phases of case handling
- Direct client/stakeholder exposure required
- Demonstrated ability to conduct research and analysis of legal issues
- Strong understanding of business and firm metrics and analytics
- Comprehensive understanding of insurance claims and operations, as well as underwriting principles
- Heightened knowledge of insurance defense litigation
- Maintain current knowledge of legal issues and developments in the law
- Preferred experience in litigation management, including oversight of attorney/firm quality handling of cases
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits
- Workplace flexibility
- Professional development opportunities
- A host of opportunities provided through our Employee Resource Groups
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