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About the Role

The Compliance and Risk Specialist will administer the firm’s business insurance, central contract database, and manage department policies and procedures. This role is ideal for a dynamic self-starter with a strong willingness to learn and an excitement to join an innovative, growing law firm.

Responsibilities

Administer all business insurance for Harris Beach Murtha including 3 ancillary businesses.
Manage and advise on the insurance renewal process, working with brokers to structure comprehensive and competitively priced insurance programs.
Coordinate insurance renewals, including limits, retention levels, rates, and premiums, and develop renewal strategies.
Recommend solutions to risk-related issues.
Oversee production and management of certificates of insurance.
Handle the administration of client contracts in accordance with company policies, procedures, and legal requirements.
Participate in the advancement of the Contract Management System.
Manage, document, and interpret contract information in the firm’s central repository.
Manage the development and distribution of contract information to attorneys and administrators.
Create and maintain comprehensive documentation related to contract management.
Participate in the Incident Response Team and notify insurer of incidents if necessary.
Audit all invoices for accuracy and timely payment.
Assist with Risk Management special projects.

Requirements

3+ years of experience in risk management, insurance, law firm, or closely related experience.
2+ years of Project Management experience (preferred).
High proficiency with Microsoft Office products.
Excellent organizational, time-management, and problem-solving skills.
Sound judgment, a sense of accountability for working independently and proactively, and determination to work efficiently with competing project deadlines.
Ability to manage multiple projects independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
Demonstrate consistent logic, rationale, and objectivity in decision making.
Believe in the firm’s core values: collaboration, inclusion, ingenuity, respect, integrity, and commitment.
Enjoy working with diverse personalities within various levels of the firm.
Comfortable working in the office on a hybrid schedule.

Skills

Risk management
Insurance
Law firm experience
Project Management
Microsoft Office products
Organizational skills
Time-management skills
Problem-solving skills
Independent work
Proactive work
Efficient work
Collaboration
Inclusion
Ingenuity
Respect
Integrity
Commitment

Location

Albany, NY
Buffalo, NY
Rochester, NY
Syracuse, NY

Work Type

Hybrid remote
Hybrid schedule

Experience Level

3+ years of experience in risk management, insurance, law firm or closely related experience
2+ years of Project Management experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in business, Risk Management, Accounting, Finance or closely related major

Salary/Compensations

$65,000 - $75,000 annually

About the Company

Harris Beach Murtha formed in 2025 via the combination of Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP.
A forward-thinking and innovative partnership with the benefit of more than 250 years of combined history, Harris Beach Murtha’s New York roots reach back to 1856 and the firm has had ties to New England since 1936.
Harris Beach and Murtha Cullina were separately among the country’s top law firms as ranked by The National Law Journal.
Harris Beach Murtha and its subsidiaries have a strong Northeast presence, but a global reach.
Clients include Fortune 100 corporations, privately held companies, emerging businesses, public sector entities, tax-exempt organizations and individuals.
The firm’s practice areas and industries served span appellate law, business litigation, commercial real estate, construction, corporate, environmental, energy, financial institutions, financial restructuring, government compliance and investigations, health care, immigration, intellectual property, labor and employment, mass torts, medical and life sciences, political law, product liability, public finance, tax, and trusts and estates.
The firm’s lawyers and consultants practice from offices throughout Connecticut in Bantam, Hartford, New Haven and Stamford; New York state in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, New York City, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Long Island and White Plains, as well as in Boston, Massachusetts and Newark, New Jersey.

Equal Opportunity

Harris Beach Murtha recognizes everyone has a right to be included.
Harris Beach Murtha is committed to an inclusive environment and we welcome applications from diverse candidates with varied background and skills, including military experience.
Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
The firm’s policy prohibiting unlawful discrimination applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, placement, assignment of duties, training, promotion, compensation & benefits and termination.
It is the policy of Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC that all applicants and employees enjoy a positive, respectful and productive work environment, free from behavior, actions or language constituting unlawful harassment.
Accordingly, harassment or discrimination of any kind based on an individual’s race or color, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, military status, genetic predisposition, carrier status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, creed, domestic violence victim status or any other legally protected status is strictly prohibited.
Harris Beach Murtha complies with the provisions of the Human Rights Law, all other State and Federal statutory and constitutional non-discrimination provisions including non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.