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About the Role

As an In-House Legal Counsel II, you will manage and creatively resolve casualty, property, and accident benefits files. You will work with Canada's largest in-house P&C insurance litigation team, focusing on legal practice rather than business development, offering work flexibility, support, and a sense of value.

Responsibilities

• Work with autonomy and collaborate with a high-performing team of lawyers, adjusters, and legal support professionals.
• Help Intact achieve strategic goals related to indemnity and expense control.
• 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 for various legal proceedings.
• Independently prepare and conduct applications, discoveries, examinations under oath, mediations, LAT hearings, arbitrations, pre-trial conferences, and trials.
• Provide support to Senior Legal Counsel by second-chairing, providing research, and other file-related tasks.
• Assess claims with a focus on indemnity control, while being strategic and pragmatic for proactive and efficient resolution.
• Share knowledge and coach Intact colleagues inside and outside your department.

Requirements

• A member in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario.
• Minimum of 5+ 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 CAT hearing and/or trial experience, is a definite asset.
• Proficiency in technologies, tools, and software programs to optimize operational efficiency and decision making, including AI tools, iManage, ACL, and the Microsoft Office package.

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-solving ability

Location

• Hybrid

Work Type

• Hybrid work model
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 5+ years of insurance litigation experience

Education Level

• Member in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario

Salary/Compensations

• 128,300 - 156,800 (based on a 35-hour workweek)

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• 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)
• Annual bonus target (up to double the target)
• Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) with 50% Intact match
• Defined benefit pension plan offering guaranteed income for life

About the Company

• Intact is Canada's largest P&C insurance provider.
• Employees are central to the company's mission to help people, businesses, and society prosper and be resilient.
• The company values respect, integrity, excellence, being customer-driven, and generosity.
• Intact is committed to reconciliation and acknowledges the traditional territories of Indigenous peoples in Canada.

Equal Opportunity

• We are an equal opportunity employer.
• 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 women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.
• We have policies to ensure equal access and participation for people with disabilities, including providing workplace adjustments (accommodations).
• Intact does not provide sponsorship or other support for immigration-related matters.