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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, supported by a team of legal professionals.

Responsibilities

• Work with autonomy 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 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 Intermediate and Senior Legal Counsel by second-chairing, providing research, and other file-related tasks.
• Report on and assess claims with a focus on controlling indemnity, while being strategic and pragmatic for proactive and efficient resolution.
• Share knowledge and coach Intact colleagues both inside and outside your department.

Requirements

• Strong organization, communication, and negotiation skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build effective client relationships.
• Ability to think outside the box, find novel solutions, and be a pragmatic problem solver.
• 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 AI tools, iManage, ACL, and the Microsoft Office package.

Skills

• Organization
• Communication
• Negotiation
• Interpersonal skills
• Collaboration
• Client relationship building
• Problem-solving
• Legal research
• Legal writing
• Drafting legal documents
• Conducting legal proceedings
• Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
• LAT hearing
• Trial experience
• AI tools
• iManage
• ACL
• Microsoft Office

Location

• Hybrid

Work Type

• Hybrid work model
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 2+ years of insurance litigation experience

Education Level

• Member in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario

Salary/Compensations

• 101,800 - 124,400

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year
• Telemedicine
• Wellness account
• Share plan
• Savings plans
• Guaranteed income for life
• Annual bonus target (10% with potential payout up to double)
• Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) with Intact matching 50%
• Defined benefit pension plan

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.
• Our 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.
• As part of our commitment to Win As A Team, we share our success with employees through our annual bonus plan and Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) – with Intact matching 50% of your net shares.
• Our pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers. We are one of the few companies offering the opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.
• 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. This history extends through many centuries and continues to evolve today.
• 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.
• Please note that Intact does not provide sponsorship or other support for immigration-related matters including but not limited to employer-specific closed work permits. 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.