Key skills
AIDecision Making
About this role
Role Overview
- Work with autonomy in your practice and collaborate with a high-performing team of lawyers, adjusters, and legal support professionals – the best in the industry
- Help Intact achieve strategic goals related to indemnity and expense control
- Handle a variety of insurance defence files, including property, casualty and accident benefits disputes from beginning to end
- Draft opinions, pleadings, affidavits, and other legal documents to support applications, mediations, judicial settlement conferences, case conferences, private arbitrations, trials and LAT hearings (both oral and written)
- Independently prepare and conduct applications, discoveries, examinations under oath, mediations, LAT hearings, arbitrations, pre-trial conferences and trials
- Provide support to Senior Legal Counsel by second chairing, providing research, and other appropriate file related tasks
- Assess claims with a focus on controlling indemnity but, at the same time, be strategic and pragmatic with a view to proactive and efficient resolution
- Share knowledge and coach your Intact colleagues both inside and outside your department
Requirements
- A member in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario
- Minimum of 5+ years of insurance litigation experience
- Experience in legal research and writing, including authorship of legal opinions
- Experience drafting pleadings, application documents, tribunal documents, mediation briefs and pre-hearing memoranda
- Experience conducting case conferences, settlement conferences, discoveries, examinations under oath and mediations
- Proficiency in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes
- LAT hearing and trial experience, particularly independent CAT hearing and/or trial experience, is a definite asset
- Proficiency in technologies, tools, and software programs to optimize operational efficiency and decision making, including but not limited to AI tools, iManage, ACL and the Microsoft Office package of programs
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model
- Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year
- Multiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more
- Share plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more