Commercial & Personal Insurance Lawyer (In-House)

We are actively seeking a Commercial & Personal Insurance Lawyer. This includes drafting, reviewing, and advising on insurance policies, as well as collaborating closely with internal stakeholders to ensure compliance with regulatory standards. This in-house hybrid opportunity with our prominent insurance client!

Introduction

Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers work on a wide variety of matters for Fortune 500 clients, such as complex licensing agreements, intellectual property, employment counseling, compliance policy creation, and M&A transactions. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control.

Epiq Counsel takes the time and attention to understand each lawyer’s practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe.

We are actively seeking a Commercial & Personal Insurance Lawyer located in the London area with the following qualifications:

• Qualified solicitor or lawyer with 5+ years of post-qualification experience in corporate or commercial law, with a focus on insurance.
• Strong understanding of both commercial and personal insurance products and associated legal frameworks.
• Proven ability to draft and review complex insurance policies and agreements.
• Experience in advising on claims-related matters and familiarity with the claims function, without being an adjuster.
• Strong knowledge of UK insurance regulations; experience with international insurance regulations is a plus.
• Willingness to support hybrid role requiring 3-4 days onsite in London-based office.
• Epiq Counsel partners with industry-leading clients in support of their sophisticated interim talent needs. Must be interested in practicing in an alternative, fixed-term legal services model.

Support our corporate client on the following:

• Draft, review, and negotiate insurance policies, endorsements, and related commercial agreements.
• Provide strategic legal advice on a variety of commercial and personal insurance matters, ensuring compliance with UK and international regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with underwriters, claims professionals, and other stakeholders to address legal issues in the underwriting and claims process.
• Conduct risk assessments and provide guidance on emerging legal trends affecting the insurance sector.

Benefits

• Hybrid role.
• Compensation commensurate with experience and complexity of engagement.
• Paid holiday.
• Access to professional development resources and learning and development programs.

Application Information

Should your experience meet the role requirements, the Epiq Counsel team will contact you. The Epiq Counsel team strives to respond to all applications; however due to the volume of applicants, we cannot always respond to every application.

It is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.