Hybrid Counsel

at GEICO

• Job title: Counsel
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $118,900 - $185,525 per year
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Savannah, United States

About the role

• Counsel handling litigation cases for GEICO in Georgia courts. Focused on defense lawsuits and providing legal opinions for insurance matters as part of their legal team.

Responsibilities

• Researching laws and preparing legal briefs, opinions, and memoranda.
• Rendering opinions on liability, damages, and value as requested by the Claims Department.
• Preparing and handling pleadings, motions, and discovery, to include depositions/examinations before trial and examinations under oath, and defending by trial or dispositive hearing, all matters assigned, as applicable.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in litigation experience on insurance/defense/and or personal injury REQUIRED.
• Juris Doctor degree REQUIRED.
• Admission to the Georgia Bar REQUIRED.
• Must be licensed in good standing to practice law in Georgia and meet and maintain licensing requirements including mandatory Continuing Legal Education (CLE) requirements where applicable.
• Must be able to travel as required, including but not limited, to attend trials, hearings, depositions, management meetings and conferences.
• Must be able to document files in a clear, concise, professional written manner, to be understood by customers, clients, co-workers and other employees of the organization.
• Must be able to follow complex instructions, resolve conflicts or facilitate conflict resolution, and have strong organization/priority setting and multi-tasking skills.
• Must be able to learn and apply large amounts of technical and procedural information.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation.
• 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match.
• Performance and recognition-based incentives.
• Tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.