Senior Counsel
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Job Description
Senior Counsel managing construction litigation and claims matters nationwide. Providing strategic legal guidance and collaborating with business clients across the company.
Responsibilities:
- Manage construction defect/general liability matters nationwide in a cost-effective manner via outside counsel or directly. Including with respect to overall strategy, discovery, mediation, arbitration, litigation, and settlement.
- Manage insurance claims, including tendering to appropriate policies.
- Draft legal documents, including correspondence with opposing counsel, legal holds, pleadings, motions, and briefs, and perform related research as required.
- Work with employees across the company to collect and produce discovery materials and responses.
- Advise, communicate, and confer with General Counsel rendering clear legal opinions and advice.
- Collaborate with internal business clients, with a customer service-oriented approach.
- Understand the company’s key business processes (e.g., procurement, warehousing, manufacturing, field installation, and homeowner design services), materials, third-party relationships, and other issues relevant to managing claims/disputes.
- Leverage technology (experience with Thompson Reuter’s Legal Tracker is preferred).
Requirements:
- Juris Doctor from an accredited law school.
- Current membership in good standing of state bar, California preferred.
- Five to ten years of construction litigation experience, preferably representing builders, contractors, and/or subcontractors.
- Significant experience with pleadings and motions practice, taking and defending depositions of experts and percipient witnesses, making court appearances, complete file handling, and preparing for trial and arbitration.
- Experience litigating additional insured and indemnity claims against subcontractors and suppliers.
- Knowledge of “Right to Repair” laws in various states, including California’s Right to Repair Act (CC 896 et seq).
- Strong research, writing, analytical, presentation, advocacy, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
- Skilled in drafting pleadings, motions, discovery, mediation statements, and status reports.
- Knowledgeable in document management databases and court electronic filing systems.
- Experience managing a large caseload.
- Leadership and confidence while also being able to participate effectively and constructively as a member of a team.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment and working independently and efficiently under time pressures and deadlines in a fast-paced, demanding environment.
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage , including multiple plan options to fit your needs, covering both physical and mental health
- 401(k) with company match
- short- and long-term disability
- life insurance
- access to a Flexible time off, 8 paid holidays, and additional leave benefits so you can recharge, rest, and focus on what matters most.
- Access to supplementary optional benefits, including a company-sponsored weight loss management program and pet insurance
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