Senior Managing Litigation Attorney

Senior Managing Litigation Attorney

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university required.
• Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school required.
• Minimum 15 years of workers’ compensation legal experience handling complex cases required.
• Minimum 2 years of managing experience of associate attorneys through senior litigation attorneys highly required.
• Licensed and in good standing with the State Bar of California with no history of public or private reprisals.

Responsibilities

• Oversees the law office activities to ensure efficient operations of In-House Counsel.
• Determines the intake and assignment of cases to ensure distribution based on each attorney’s level of expertise and associated location (region or county).
• Achieves the departments and company goals by making strategic business decisions.
• Ensures the firm is achieving its client satisfaction goals by evaluating productivity and quality of service.
• Identifies, makes recommendations for work process improvements and follows through to implement remediations.
• Works with leadership to ensure the department meets financial and ROI goals, identifies trends, prepares reports, and implements modifications as needed.
• Mentors less experienced attorneys and ensures the team continues to expand their job-related knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Regularly reviews cases and provides feedback on legal strategies, compliance with deadlines, timeliness on response, and maximizing the department’s core goals.
• Handles a reduced caseload of litigated files and ensures files are fully worked and moved to resolution.
• Litigates workers’ compensation cases in California before all state and federal courts, administrative boards, and other court proceedings.
• Represents ICW Group, its related entities and insureds before administrative boards, state and federal courts, Court of Appeal, and the California Supreme Court.
• Analyzes complex legal and factual issues; conducts extensive, well-reasoned legal research, as necessary; independently develops and presents defense strategies on behalf of ICW Group.
• Provides strategic legal advice, recommendation, and implementation of clear, cost-effective, and efficient plans of action.
• Assists in analyzing, reviewing, and distributing information on new legislation, regulations, and court decisions.
• Supervises and evaluates, mentors, motivates, and develops attorneys to strengthen the legal team.
• Communicates clear performance expectations for the assigned team as well as providing support and guidance for achieving the departments metric, billable hours and expectations.
• Communicates and enforces team values including mission statement of In-House Counsel (IHC) and ICW.
• Establishes and maintains the overall work cadence and, in partnership with Department leadership; ensures performance and outcomes strive for excellence in delivery and customer experience.
• Acts as a resource for team members to answer questions and assist in the solution to complex problems.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.