Associate Counsel
GEICO
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Orlando • Florida • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $104,550 - $162,975 per year
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Researching laws and preparing legal briefs, opinions, and memoranda.
- Rendering opinions on liability, damages, and value as requested by the Claims Department.
- Preparing and handling pleadings, motions, and discovery, to include depositions/examinations before trial and examinations under oath, and defending by trial or dispositive hearing, all matters assigned, as applicable.
Requirements
- 2-6+ years of experience in related field litigation experience on insurance/defense/and or personal injury.
- Juris Doctor degree REQUIRED.
- Admission to the Florida Bar REQUIRED.
- Must be licensed in good standing to practice law in Florida and meet and maintain licensing requirements including mandatory Continuing Legal Education (CLE) requirements where applicable.
- Must be able to travel as required, including but not limited, to attend trials, hearings, depositions, management meetings and conferences.
- Must be able to document files in a clear, concise, professional written manner, to be understood by customers, clients, co-workers and other employees of the organization.
- Must be able to follow complex instructions, resolve conflicts or facilitate conflict resolution, and have strong organization/priority setting and multi-tasking skills.
- Must be able to learn and apply large amounts of technical and procedural information.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
- Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation.
- A 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match.
- Performance and recognition-based incentives.
- Tuition assistance.
- Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
- Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
legal researchlegal writinglitigationpreparing legal briefsdrafting pleadingsconducting depositionstrial preparationdispositive hearingsdocumenting filesresolving conflicts
Soft skills
strong organizationpriority settingmulti-taskingclear communicationconflict resolutionattention to detailprofessionalismadaptabilityanalytical thinkingproblem-solving
Certifications
Juris DoctorFlorida Bar admissionContinuing Legal Education (CLE)