Insurance Operations Lead Attorney - Jacksonville
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Jacksonville, Florida
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Feb 20, 2019
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- Category
- Legal / Compliance, Operations
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Where good people build rewarding careers.
Think that working in the insurance field cant be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. Youll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers lives. Well help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, youll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And youll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
Job Description
Provides legal advise and counsel for life and health insurance company operations including: regulatory compliance, contracting, policy administration, and privacy and data security. Duties include: provide counsel to business clients on day to day lower complexity/less sensitive issues, identify business and legal needs and issues, conduct legal research, and prepare and present analysis and recommendations; draft and review documents; assist with and lead projects; monitor new laws and regulations; oversee defense of the Company in litigation and other disputes with third parties.
Key Responsibilities
- Legal Advice and Counseling
- Perform factual due diligencegather all relevant facts and documents; collaborate with business partners and other L&R members
- Perform legal researchidentify and apply to facts applicable laws, regulations, other legal authority,
- Identify, define and resolve legal issues
- Monitor, review and advise on new laws, regulations, and other legal authority for applicability to the Company
- Explain and counsel business partners on impact of legal requirements and collaborate with them on developing and implementing compliant processes
- Collaborate with other areas of L&R
- Drafting and Negotiation
- Draft, review and negotiate basic matters and agreements
- Draft and review routine communications and forms
- Business Knowledge and Acumen
- Gather facts from client to understand goals and objectives client intends to achieve from intended action
- Determine if/how business processes and practices need to be modified and work with business partners to implement change
- Identify and coordinate with other potentially impacted business units and L&R departments
- Recommend and obtain appropriate approval
- Project Management
- Manage moderately-complex projects including development of meeting materials, and coordination with senior management
- Provide project management, coordination, and collaboration between legal teams within L&R and business clients
- Litigation Management
- Retain and manage outside counsel representing the Company in Federal and state courts throughout the country to include development of trial and settlement strategy, and perform budget oversight
- Oversee discovery, identifying relevant facts, materials, and witnesses, to include witness preparation
- Assist business partners with responses to regulatory investigations, examinations and disputes
- Interpersonal/Communication
- Participate in meetings with business partners at all levels of the Company
- Participate in relevant external industry groups
Job Qualifications
- Core Competencies. Should have the following knowledge and/or propensity to learn:
- Fundamental knowledge of life and health insurance industry and regulation, to include regulatory and litigation environment
- Thorough understanding of litigation processes and procedures with experience representing clients in civil and/or criminal courts
- Legal research, analytical and communication skills
- Basic understanding of insurance accounting principles
- Other Requisites
- Possesses a juris doctorate and license to practice law in Florida (or be eligible to provide in-house counsel under Florida Bar Rules)
- 5+ years related experience
- Computer skills, including MS Office suite, used in or related to the tasks performed
- Exercises discretion and maintains confidentiality of sensitive information
- Demonstrates ethics and integrity
- Management & Supervisory Skills
- Budget management skills
- Project management skills
- Able to interact with all levels of personnel, ability to influence others
- Coach and guide less experienced team members
- Self development
Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands.
As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary but thats just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, youll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.
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