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About The Position

Requirements

• B.A. or B.S. degree
• Strong technical skills including proficiency in Excel, MSWord, SharePoint and PowerPoint
• Strong organizational skills and close attention to detail
• Ability to handle confidential information and communications in a secure manner
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to work well within a team
• Ability to deal with multiple assignments, to prioritize, and to progress assignments without constant oversight
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in insurance claims management, litigation support, or a related legal/insurance role
• Strong knowledge of insurance policies, coverage types, and litigation procedures
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in a law firm or corporate legal department
• Experience with litigation, claims, and/or labor and employment legal matters
• Experience with cost tracking, forecasting, and budget management, particularly in the legal and/or engineering and construction industries
• Facility with legal related applications and tools, including:
• document review tools such as Viewpoint and Relativity
• legal hold software applications, such as Mitratech Legal Hold
• invoice processing applications, such as SimpleLegal
• service of process applications and providers
• document management systems, such as iManage.
• Experience accessing, managing, querying, and updating databases
• Experience in engineering and construction or related business fields

Responsibilities

• Support for a wide range of litigation and claims matters, including:
• work with in-house counsel, internal departments, and, as needed, outside counsel to manage the timely response to subpoenas, discovery, data subject-access requests and other requests for information
• conduct document reviews using electronic document review tools such as Viewpoint and Relativity, with attention to items such as responsiveness, privilege, and personal information
• review applicable insurance policy(ies) for coverage and submit the claim/matter to the insurer(s) for handling
• track, organize and file legal documents, legal advice, presentations and correspondence
• conduct internal searches for paper and electronic records, and coordinate and communicate with records managers to identify records potentially responsive to discovery
• work with attorneys to draft legal hold notices; issue legal hold notices through software tool; respond to questions regarding legal holds; and draft and issue notices releasing legal holds through software tool
• communicate with external counsel, vendors, and others regarding legal matters
• assist with initiatives set by the Legal Department
• Maintain, search, enter data into, and create reports from internal databases and other tracking tools used by the Litigation & Claims and Labor & Employment.
• Accept, track, review and distribute legal documents
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• robust benefits to ensure our people thrive
• advancing careers
• delivering programs to enhance our culture
• providing time to recharge