In-House Insurance Lawyer

We are actively seeking Insurance Lawyers to support our Fortune 500 client on legal matters across their Marine, Aviation, Energy, Construction, and Credit lines.

About Epiq Counsel

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 legal matters for Fortune 500 clients across all practice areas. 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 sophisticated interim in-house opportunities with leading law departments across the globe. Leverage our network to work for organisations in need of top-tier legal services. Take the next step in your legal career and join a vibrant community of Epiq legal professionals!

Credentials:

• 3+ years of relevant insurance legal experience.
• Experience in UK insurance regulatory matters.
• Strong understanding of agency law and distribution models in insurance.
• Experience drafting and reviewing complex insurance agreements.
• Knowledge of specialty insurance lines a plus.
• Track record of successful collaboration in cross-functional teams.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be interested in practicing in an alternative, fixed-term legal services model.

Support our F500 corporate client with the following:

• Draft and review various agreements including:
• Delegated Underwriting Authority (DUA) agreements
• Terms of Business Agreements (TOBAs)
• Facility Agreements
• Claims Handling Agreements
• Binding Agreements.
• Provide counsel on agency and distribution issues and associated legal areas.
• Support the Global Specialty Legal team on day-to-day matters.
• Advise on legal and regulatory requirements affecting specialty insurance lines.

Benefits

• Compensation commensurate with experience and complexity of engagement, together with engagement support and coaching.
• We offer market beating benefits in the alternative legal services space, including 25 days holiday + bank holidays, pension and comprehensive healthcare.

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.