Hybrid Senior Counsel, Business Lines

at GEICO

• Job title: Senior Counsel, Business Lines
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $148,625 - $260,350 per year
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chevy Chase, United States

About the role

• Legal Advisor at GEICO providing legal support for product development and compliance across business units. Collaborating with cross-functional teams and addressing future legal needs in an innovative environment.

Responsibilities

• Understand all key business objectives and means of accomplishing them for assigned business unit(s).
• Provide legal advice related to the business unit(s) and anticipate future legal needs.
• Draft and review policy documents anticipating litigation exposure.
• Coordinate support for assigned business units from other parts of the legal department.
• Use wide range of legal knowledge to issue spot implications of business choice that could interact with multiple legal subject areas such as, insurance compliance, consumer-protection laws, contractual obligations, privacy, and requirements of state unfair claims practices acts.

Requirements

• Strongly prefers candidates with 5 to 7 years of experience at a law firm or in-house serving as a legal advisor or coverage counselor for products within property/casualty insurance or an insurance litigation background including bad faith or extra contractual exposure.
• Must have a law degree and an active law license to practice in the United States of America.
• Strong listening and communication skills.
• Strong research and writing skills, and an eagerness to be involved in a dynamic company.
• Ability to quickly digest and understand business plans, processes, and procedures.
• Ability to provide legal advice with incomplete information.
• Refined judgement about legal and legal-adjacent risks as well as mitigation opportunities.
• Must be solution-oriented with strong analytical and decision-making skills.
• Must have demonstrated experience solving business problems and advancing business metrics.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams, both legal and non-legal.

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; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and 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.