Legal Complex Litigation Director

Role Overview

• Provide primary direction for the defense and legal strategy for litigation commenced against the company.
• Supervise outside counsel to assure the representation of the company is of a scope and quality appropriate to the nature of each case and is observing the applicable rules of professional conduct for attorneys.
• Lead a team of Litigation professionals including attorneys and litigation adjusters responsible for managing challenging enterprise claims litigation.
• Oversee and manage the performance and outcomes of a portfolio of high complexity and high severity claims litigation.
• Assure efficient management of litigation expenses and driving favorable loss outcomes.
• Use data to improve litigation outcomes including monitoring KPI's, and trend analyzation in severity, trial outcomes, cycle times and legal expenses.
• Collaborate with panel and staff counsel as appropriate while driving resolution strategies that balance customer, financial and reputational considerations.
• Oversee trial readiness and selection of matters appreciate for trial within the complex litigation team and monitor emerging legal and litigation trends and share key insights with team.
• Attract, develop, and retain a highly engaged team that contributes to overall success of the enterprise and escalate any significant matters to executive leadership.
• Communicate and support organizational mission, vision, values, policies and practices.
• Oversee the representation or represent the corporation in administrative forums and court on behalf of the corporation.

Requirements

• Demonstrated effective leadership skills.
• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service
• Demonstrated experience managing a portfolio of complex litigation including high severity bodily injury and catastrophic loss matters
• Demonstrated experience with complex insurance coverage issues as well as extra contractual and bad faith matters
• Demonstrated litigation management experience
• Demonstrated financial acumen in indemnity and expense management including reserving, expense management, budget management, and key insurance ratios
• Demonstrated ability to translate data into actionable litigation strategies
• Demonstrated experience providing practical legal analysis in complex and sensitive legal matters
• Solid knowledge of the legal, regulatory, and administrative procedures pertaining to the insurance industry
• Admission to State Bar

Benefits

• comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits
• competitive 401(k) contribution
• pension plan
• annual incentive
• 9 paid holidays
• paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees)
• student loan repayment program
• paid-family leave