Associate Attorney, Insurance

Description

DAC Beachcroft is growing its global insurance offering, and our New York team is hiring an Associate to grow with it.

The team advises domestic and global insurers and their insureds across a wide range of insurance classes. The main focus is contingency and event cancellation coverage advice, and personal injury litigation and defense. We’re part of one of the largest insurance practices of any law firm, and we’re building the firm of choice for the global insurance sector.

You’ll join a team of 8 attorneys in a full-time, permanent position. Expect a varied caseload, direct contact with clients and close work with senior attorneys. The team is collaborative and positive, gives you real autonomy and takes work/life balance seriously.
If you want to make an impact in a growing US team, we’d like to hear from you. Applications need to include a writing sample.

What you'll do

• Manage your own caseload and support Partners and colleagues on personal injury and other defendant insurance litigation matters.
• Apply legal principles to the facts and build sound, commercial strategies for medium and high value cases, including potential policy coverage issues.
• [Depose all relevant parties in litigation]
• Draft and review correspondence, reports and litigation documents.
• Keep your files organized and in line with client quality and service level requirements.
• Learn your clients’ businesses and how they fit with ours.

What you'll bring

• New York Bar admission, ideally with 2 to 3 years’ experience in pre-litigation and litigation, and strong deposition skills.
• The ability to run your own caseload independently.
• A strong academic record.
• Sound analysis of complex facts, aimed at a commercial resolution for the client.
• Confidence dealing with clients on day-to-day issues.
• Calm, quick decision making
• A team player who shares knowledge and supports colleagues.

We are happy to talk flexible working with our Flex Forward scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.

Note for Recruitment Agencies
DAC Beachcroft manages all vacancies via our in-house recruitment teams, prioritising direct sourcing and referrals. When external support is required, roles are released to selected agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL).

Speculative CVs sent to any DAC Beachcroft employee without prior instruction from our recruitment teams (LLP and CSG) will not be accepted, and no fees will be payable.

For PSL queries, please contact: recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com or csgrecruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

We are a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We are market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.

We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Bogota, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Lima, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, Santiago de Chile, and Singapore plus a representative office in Miami and broad network of affiliations across the globe.

At DAC Beachcroft we are committed to and recognise the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion across the board, including and beyond the protected characteristics. We take decisions based solely on merit. We value, welcome and seek out people with different backgrounds and life experiences, perspectives, beliefs, ways of thinking and identities.