Senior Counsel, Corporate/P&C Litigation Unit
The Hartford
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Hartford • Connecticut • United States
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Salary
💰 $154,000 - $231,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Deliver comprehensive legal advice and training to internal partners related to extracontractual exposures and litigation risk, with limited supervision
- Achieve favorable, cost-effective resolutions in litigation and pre-litigation disputes, including pursuit of appropriate risk transfer and other recovery opportunities
- Seek out opportunities to improve legal and financial outcomes, claim behaviors, and internal processes
- Select and manage competent outside counsel and litigation vendors, and focus on efficiently managing costs and budgets
- Develop and drive strategy in day-to-day case management, including implementation of effective litigation, settlement, mediation, arbitration, and ADR strategies; coordinate execution of such strategy with outside counsel as required
- Collaborate with paralegal and administrative staff on document retrieval and production, file maintenance, and day to day case management tasks
- Communicate effectively with business partners, Law Department colleagues and managers, providing timely updates on significant case developments and changes to the broader legal environment
Requirements
- Minimum of five years of litigation practice experience
- experience with insurance bad faith litigation strongly preferred
- experience with class action defense and other complex corporate litigation preferred
- Litigation experience within national or regional law firm preferred
- experience in a similar litigation role within a Fortune 200 company law department considered
- Ability to build strong, strategic partnerships with business clients throughout the enterprise and colleagues throughout the Law Department
- Superior writing, editing, and oral communication skills
- Collaborative, team-oriented work style, with strong interpersonal skills; excellent work ethic; self-motivated
- Strong judgment and ability to make independent decisions when appropriate
- Strong critical thinking, growth mindset skills and a continuous learner
- Demonstrated proficiency with AI tools, Lexis-Nexis and other research tools, and Microsoft Office suite (MS Word, Outlook, and Excel)
- J.D. required; member of Connecticut bar or member of any state bar
- Able and willing to travel up to 10% of the time, or as needed
Benefits
- Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses
- long-term incentives
- on-the-spot recognition
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
litigation practiceinsurance bad faith litigationclass action defensecomplex corporate litigationcase managementsettlement strategiesmediationarbitrationADR strategieslegal advice
Soft Skills
strategic partnershipswriting skillsediting skillsoral communication skillscollaborative work styleinterpersonal skillsjudgmentcritical thinkingself-motivatedgrowth mindset
Certifications
J.D.member of Connecticut barmember of any state bar