Weekly hours may fluctuate depending on business needs.

We offer you more than just a career. As an In-House Legal Counsel II working here means that you can focus on doing what you do best: being a great lawyer. With Canada’s largest in-house P&C insurance litigation team, you can say ‘goodbye!’ to business development and ‘hello!’ to work flexibility, being supported and feeling valued.

With our Legal Claims team, you’ll be at the heart of what we do best: helping people. Guided by our values of respect, integrity, excellence, being customer-driven and generosity, you’ll have the freedom to manage and be creative in your approach to resolve casualty, property and accident benefits files

What you’ll do here:

• Work with autonomy in your practice and collaborate with a high-performing team of lawyers, adjusters, and legal support professionals – the best in the industry. 

• Help Intact achieve strategic goals related to indemnity and expense control.

• Handle a variety of insurance defence files, including property, casualty and accident benefits disputes from beginning to end.

• Draft opinions, pleadings, affidavits, and other legal documents to support applications, mediations, judicial settlement conferences, case conferences, private arbitrations, trials and LAT hearings (both oral and written).

• Independently prepare and conduct applications, discoveries, examinations under oath, mediations, LAT hearings, arbitrations, pre-trial conferences and trials.

• Provide support to Senior Legal Counsel by second chairing, providing research, and other appropriate file related tasks.

• Assess claims with a focus on controlling indemnity but, at the same time, be strategic and pragmatic with a view to proactive and efficient resolution.

• Share knowledge and coach your Intact colleagues both inside and outside your department. 

What you bring to the table:

• Strong organization, communication and negotiation skills that will help you manage a busy practice, including working effectively with legal support staff including legal assistants, law clerks, and administrative support employees.

• Strong interpersonal skills, a natural ability to work collaboratively with others and to build effective client relationships that will make you a great team player and contribute to the positive work environment.

• An ability to think outside the box, find novel solutions and be a pragmatic problem solver.

The ideal candidate is/has: 

• A member in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario. 

• Minimum of 5+ years of insurance litigation experience.

• Experience in legal research and writing, including authorship of legal opinions.

• Experience drafting pleadings, application documents, tribunal documents, mediation briefs and pre-hearing memoranda.

• Experience conducting case conferences, settlement conferences, discoveries, examinations under oath and mediations.

• Proficiency in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes.

• LAT hearing and trial experience, particularly independent CAT hearing and/or trial experience, is a definite asset.

• Proficiency in technologies, tools, and software programs to optimize operational efficiency and decision making, including but not limited to AI tools, iManage, ACL and the Microsoft Office package of programs.
  

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