Corporate Counsel, Claims Litigation

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Corporate Counsel, Claims Litigation

United States (Remote)

At Porch, you will help solve big problems and lead the way as our Corporate Counsel, Claims Litigation. Your role is to provide legal services and advice regarding complex insurance claims, including extracontractual matters, bad faith, and other major litigation. You will be a key partner to the Claims organization, reporting to the Senior Director & Counsel, Insurance, and will handle a wide variety of matters significant to the organization.

• Manage complex litigation, bad faith, coverage, and extracontractual allegations against the Company.
• Effectively manage outside counsel to obtain legal advice.
• Work with all levels of the organization, including senior leadership, on legal risks and business strategies related to claims operations.
• Manage the claims litigation budget to ensure expense metrics are met.
• Proactively monitor and analyze changes in laws, regulations, and industry and advise organizational leadership in a timely manner.
• Anticipate potential or future legal and operational issues that present a risk to the organization and proactively engage to identify solutions.
• Be a business partner to Porch executives, providing advice and assistance aimed at maximizing shareholder value.
• Effectively communicate with stakeholders and varying levels of leadership in both verbal and written forms.
• Produce clear and concise legal positions on highly complex issues.
• Advise on broader insurance legal and compliance issues as needed.

• J.D. from an accredited law school; active and in good standing with U.S. state bar membership.
• 8+ years of litigation experience at a law firm, government, and/or in-house role.
• Demonstrated experience handling bad faith or extracontractual litigation against an insurance company.
• 1st or 2nd chair trial and/or appellate experience.
• Experience effectively managing outside counsel.
• Up-to-date understanding of the key legal issues germane to an insurance organization.
• Knowledge of insurance-specific operational risks, such as reinsurance, underwriting compliance, product review, and claims.
• Monitor evolving laws and regulations in the insurance services sectors and proactively advise leadership on their impact.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex legal concepts to non-lawyers.
• Flexible, solution-oriented, collaborative mindset.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Proficiency in managing multiple priorities, projects, and stakeholders.
• Outstanding judgment and integrity, and the ability to balance complex matters independently.
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships across the Company and provide practical counsel and solutions.

• Pay Range*: $ - $ annually.
• Annual bonus based on individual and company performance (subject to program guidelines and approvals).
• Long-term incentive awards (subject to program guidelines and approvals).
• Health, life, and financial wellbeing coverage (comprehensive health, dental, vision, and critical illness plans).
• Pre-tax savings options (Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts).
• Company-paid Basic Life and AD&D, Short and Long-Term Disability benefits, and Voluntary Life and AD&D plans.
• Roth 401(k) and 401(k) with employer match.
• Wellbeing programs (guided meditation, mindfulness, mental health coaching, wellness resources, and flexible paid vacation).
• Paid holidays (typically nine per year), paid sick time, paid parental leave, identity theft program, travel assistance, fitness and other discount programs.

Submit your application. Our Porch Group Talent Acquisition team will review your application shortly. If we are intrigued by your resume, we will invite you to a virtual interview to learn more about your background and to answer your questions. Porch is committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging and is an Equal Opportunity employer.

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