Jobs · Business Development · New Jersey

Insurance Recovery Associate

Barnes & Thornburg LLP · Morristown, NJ · 3 wk ago
Business DevelopmentFull-time

Responsibilities

  • Represent corporate policyholders in complex insurance coverage litigation, arbitrations, and other dispute resolution proceedings involving D&O, Cyber, RWI, CGL, Environmental, E&O, Property/Business Interruption and other first- and third-party coverages.
  • Advise clients on insurance recovery strategy and a broad range of coverage issues.
  • Analyze and interpret complex commercial insurance policies, endorsements, exclusions, and coverage provisions.
  • Draft coverage analyses, pleadings, motions, briefs, and substantive legal memoranda.
  • Assist clients in securing defense and indemnity coverage for third-party liability claims and other significant losses.
  • Work closely with clients, insurers, brokers, adjusters, and underlying defense counsel to advance insurance recovery objectives.
  • Support all phases of litigation, including factual development, discovery, motion practice, and hearing or trial preparation.

Qualifications

  • At least 4 years of relevant experience in insurance recovery, insurance coverage litigation, or policyholder-side coverage counseling.
  • Demonstrated experience representing policyholders and experience counseling clients on insurance recovery.
  • Excellent legal research, analytical, writing, and oral advocacy skills.
  • Ability to work independently while also thriving in a collaborative, team-oriented environment.
  • High degree of professionalism, initiative, sound judgment, and attention to detail.
  • Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school with strong academic credentials.
  • Admission to the applicable state bar and in good standing, or ability to obtain admission promptly.
  • Federal judicial clerkship experience is a plus, but not required.

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