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About the Role

As In-House Legal Counsel I, you will focus on being a great lawyer within Canada's largest in-house P&C insurance litigation team. You will manage and creatively resolve casualty, property, and accident benefits files, benefiting from work flexibility, support, and a feeling of value.

Responsibilities

• Work with autonomy in your practice and collaborate with a high-performing team of lawyers, paralegals, adjusters, and legal support professionals.
• Help Intact achieve strategic goals related to indemnity and expense control.
• Independently handle a variety of insurance defence files, including property, casualty and accident benefits disputes from beginning to end.
• Draft opinions, pleadings, affidavits, and other legal documents to support applications, mediations, judicial settlement conferences, case conferences, private arbitrations, trials and LAT hearings (both oral and written).
• Independently prepare and conduct applications, discoveries, examinations under oath, mediations, LAT hearings, arbitrations, pre-trial conferences and trials.
• Provide support to Intermediate and Senior Legal Counsel by second chairing, providing research, and other appropriate file related tasks.
• Report on and assess claims with a focus on controlling indemnity but, at the same time, be strategic and pragmatic with a view to proactive and efficient resolution.
• Share knowledge and coach your Intact colleagues both inside and outside your department.

Requirements

• A member in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario.
• Minimum of 2+ years of insurance litigation experience.
• Experience in legal research and writing, including authorship of legal opinions.
• Experience drafting pleadings, application documents, tribunal documents, mediation briefs and pre-hearing memoranda.
• Experience conducting case conferences, settlement conferences, discoveries, examinations under oath and mediations.
• Proficiency in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes.
• LAT hearing and trial experience, particularly independent hearing/trial experience, is a definite asset.
• Proficiency in technologies, tools, and software programs to optimize operational efficiency and decision making, including but not limited to AI tools, iManage, ACL and the Microsoft Office package of programs.
• Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada from the anticipated start date and throughout their employment and are solely responsible for maintaining their work eligibility.

Skills

• Strong organization skills
• Strong communication skills
• Strong negotiation skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to work collaboratively
• Ability to build effective client relationships
• Ability to think outside the box
• Ability to find novel solutions
• Pragmatic problem solver

Location

• Hybrid

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 2+ years of insurance litigation experience

Salary/Compensations

• 101,800 - 124,400 (based on a 35-hour workweek)

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Hybrid work model
• Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year
• Telemedicine
• Wellness account
• Share plan & other savings (up to 12% of salary or more)
• Guaranteed income for life via defined benefit pension plan
• Annual bonus target (10% of base salary, potential payout up to double target)
• Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) with Intact matching 50% of net shares

About the Company

• Our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times.
• Intact’s employee promise represents Intact’s commitment to you in exchange for living our Values, striving to do your best work, being open to change and investing in your career.
• In return, we promise to provide support, opportunities and performance-led financial rewards at a workplace where you can shape the future, win as a team and grow with us.
• Pay at Intact is about much more than just salary.
• With Canada’s largest in-house P&C insurance litigation team, you can say ‘goodbye!’ to business development and ‘hello!’ to work flexibility, being supported and feeling valued.
• With our Legal Claims team, you’ll be at the heart of what we do best: helping people.
• Guided by our values of respect, integrity, excellence, being customer-driven and generosity, you’ll have the freedom to manage and be creative in your approach to resolve casualty, property and accident benefits files.
• This role is a new member of our growing team.

Equal Opportunity

• We are an equal opportunity employer.
• At Intact, our Value of respect is founded on seeing diversity as a strength.
• We strive to create an accessible workplace where employees feel valued, included and encouraged to share their unique perspectives.
• We encourage applications from individuals who are members of equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.
• As part of Intact’s commitment to reconciliation, we acknowledge that we work, meet and travel across the land currently called Canada, originally inhabited by First Nations, Metis and Inuit people.
• We have policies to ensure equal access and participation for people with disabilities, including providing workplace adjustments (accommodations).
• A copy of applicable policies is available on request.
• If we can provide a specific adjustment to make the recruitment process more accessible for you, please let us know when we reach out about a job opportunity.
• We’ll work with you to meet your needs.