Litigation Attorney - Remote

About the role

Founded close to thirty years ago, we are a 70+ person litigation firm representing employers and insurance carriers across Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, and Nebraska. Recognized by Best Lawyers as a Best Law Firm, our workers' compensation team includes a former judge and attorneys who have authored workers' compensation legislation and shaped the law through published opinions. We defend clients across the airline, grocery, retail, manufacturing, transportation, health care, and entertainment industries. This position is remote, with offices in Denver, Phoenix, and Salt Lake City.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of your own docket early and become a go-to defense attorney in workers' compensation.
• Represent employers and insurance carriers in a diverse portfolio of workers' compensation claims, handling matters from initial claim through hearing.
• Manage a diverse caseload of Colorado workers' compensation defense matters from intake through resolution.
• Appear at hearings, depositions, and settlement conferences on behalf of employers and carriers.
• Analyze compensability, disability, medical benefits, and average weekly wage issues and advise clients on strategy.
• Draft pleadings, position statements, discovery, and motions in a fast-paced administrative law setting.
• Communicate directly with adjusters, employers, and risk managers while managing deadlines, calendar, and billing.

Requirements

• CO Bar Admission.
• Recent litigation experience (Workers' Comp or civil litigation) – also open to district court background.

Skills

• Workers' compensation defense.
• Insurance defense.
• Administrative law hearings.
• General insurance law.
• Subrogation and recovery.
• Compensability and claim defense.
• Temporary, permanent partial, and permanent total disability.
• Medical benefits and average weekly wage calculations.
• Colorado WCRP rules.
• Appellate practice.

Benefits

• Medical (United Healthcare), dental, vision (MetLife).
• Matching 401(k).
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Life insurance.
• Generous PTO, sick leave, and paid holidays.
• Hands‑