Insurance Defense Attorney III
Mercury Insurance
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 - $240,000 per year
About the role
- Serve as lead counsel on a sophisticated caseload of 1st- and 3rd-party personal injury matters.
- Manage files from initial assignment through post-trial motions, including bench and jury trials as well as binding arbitrations.
- Handle complex, high-exposure cases involving completed surgeries, alleged traumatic brain injuries, punitive damages, and other serious injuries with potential excess exposure.
- Comprehensive review of new and transfer file assignments with initial evaluation letter to claims and service of initial discovery within 30 days of receipt of assignment.
- Summarizing discovery responses and medical records within 30 days of receipt.
- Taking and defending depositions of parties, lay witnesses, and expert witnesses and completion of deposition summaries within 20 days.
- Trial preparation, trial, and posttrial motions including pretrial documents and all facets of a jury trial.
Requirements
- Minimum: Requires a law degree and admission to the bar in the state(s) where practicing.
- Preferred: Requires a law degree from a state accredited or ABA accredited law school and admission to the bar in the state(s) where practicing.
- Minimum: 5+ years of insurance defense or related experience.
- 10+ insurance defense personal injury trials to verdict or equivalent litigation experience.
- Preferred: 10+ years of insurance defense experience; 3+ years of experience as the primary attorney defending higher exposure cases including but not limited to completed surgeries.
- Comprehensive knowledge of insurance, torts, evidence, civil procedure, and trial practice.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States for most positions
- Paid time off (vacation time, sick time, 9 paid Company holidays, volunteer hours)
- Incentive bonus programs (potential for holiday bonus, referral bonus, and performance-based bonus)
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance
- 401 (k) retirement savings plan with company match
- Engaging work environment
- Promotional opportunities
- Education assistance
- Professional and personal development opportunities
- Company recognition program
- Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more
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Hard Skills & Tools
law degreeinsurance defensepersonal injury trialslitigation experiencetrial preparationdepositionsdiscovery responsescivil proceduretortsevidence
Certifications
admission to the bar