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Assistant General CounselMarsh McLennan • London, England, UK
Assistant General Counsel

Assistant General Counsel

Marsh McLennan • London, England, UK
27 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Company:

Marsh Corporate

Description:

This is a highly visible role at the intersection of complex litigation regulation and commercial decision-making. Reporting to the General Counsel in London youll lead our approach to E&O and professional liability disputes shaping strategy from early assessment through resolution.

Youll have broad exposure across the organisation partnering closely with business and risk leaders to keep practices current as the legal and regulatory landscape evolves. This is a role for a confident pragmatic lawyer who can protect the firm influence senior stakeholders and help enable Marshs growth with clear judgment and disciplined risk management.

This role combines courtroom and disputeresolution experience with practical commercial judgment to protect the companys legal and financial interests while enabling business operations.

Core responsibilities

  • E&O & professional liability litigation
    • Lead E&O/professionalliability litigation (individual claims multiclaimant actions and coverage disputes) from investigation to trial and appeal.
    • Develop and execute costeffective defense strategies; select manage and oversee outside counsel budgets and billing.
    • Coordinate with claims underwriting actuarial risk and finance teams to evaluate reserve and settlement decisions and communicate legal exposure to executives and the board.
    • Negotiate and execute settlements structured resolutions and coverage/indemnity arrangements; manage settlement approvals and reporting.
  • Crossfunctional legal strategy & risk management
    • Advise product sales procurement and operations on legal risk tradeoffs involving professional liability.
    • Build playbooks and training for business teams on E&O exposures incident response datahandling best practices and restrictive covenant compliance.
    • Maintain litigation trackers KPIs and dashboards; prepare executive summaries and board materials on exposure trends and remediation measures.
  • Contribute to overall management of litigation team and legal department strategy
    • Form part of Legal Compliance and Public Affairs (LCPA) assistance to business with key product developments.
    • Assist with process know-how and tool development for broader LCPA colleagues.
    • Contribute to continual development and improvement of LCPA functions and capabilities.

Key qualifications

  • Substantive litigation and regulatory experience with demonstrable work on E&O/professional liability matters; inhouse and/or lawfirm backgrounds acceptable.
  • Extensive experience working closely with insurance industry associations including LIIBA BIBA and BIPAR on data privacy matters
  • Strong contract drafting and negotiation skills including commercial and vendor agreements with privacy/security clauses.
  • Excellent project management financial stewardship (outsourcing/budget oversight) and stakeholder communication skills.
  • Proven ability to work under pressure prioritize competing demands and provide pragmatic businessaligned advice.
  • Strong people and project management skills including an ability to drive and deliver projects on time mentor and coach junior staff and manage internal and external stakeholders through clear communication and delivery.

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk reinsurance and capital people and investments and management consulting advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95000 colleagues Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information visit or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background civil partnership status disability ethnic origin family duties gender orientation or expression gender reassignment marital status nationality parental status personal or social status political affiliation race religion and beliefs sex/gender sexual orientation or expression skin color or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments please contact us at

Marsh is committed to hybrid work which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one anchor day per week on which their full team will be together in person.


Required Experience:

Junior IC


Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
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