Contentious Insurance Lawyer

Job description

We are ideally looking for a dynamic candidate with at least 2+ years' PQE experience and excellent client skills.

The work will be a mixture of general insurance coverage, defence work, commercial disputes (acting for both insurers and policyholders) and commercial litigation for financial services firms. Examples of the type of work would include:

• Providing coverage advice and analysis on a variety of policy wordings including D&O, Construction programmes (including CAR, combined liability, PI), PTL, Crime, Property/BI, Professional indemnity across key Sectors such as Infrastructure and Energy, W&I, Cyber Liability and Employer's liability
• Acting for insurers and financial institutions in a range of commercial disputes including mediations and arbitrations.
• Representing financial institutions and Directors and Officers in the defence of claims against them.
• Profit share and commission disputes between regulated and non-regulated businesses especially among our insurer and reinsurer client base;
• Acting for commercial policyholders on a range of contentious insurance matters

Financial Services and Insurance at Pinsent Masons

The Financial Services Sector is one of the largest in revenue terms of our four Global Sectors. Insurance sits at the heart of our financial services practice, with three out of ten of the Firm's top ten clients last year coming from the Insurance sector.

Background on the Regulation, Insurance and Funds team

The RIF Team, within which the Insurance segment sits, consists of approximately 50 lawyers who focus on FS litigation, insurance, contentious and non-contentious financial services work allowing for opportunities of close collaboration and cross team working. The Team's primary clients are leading market financial services firms such as global banks, insurers, funds and brokers.

RIF operates across our UK offices (especially London and Edinburgh) plus Dublin, Dubai and Luxembourg.

Clients include major global and UK insurance businesses like Allianz, Aviva, AXA, Argo International, Travelers, Bupa, Direct Line Group, Legal & General, RSA, Simplyhealth and Zurich. We also act for a number of broker groups and leading brand retail distributors.

The nature of the work is a broad base of contentious insurance work and will involve supporting one or more of the contentious partners and/or senior associates within a team environment.

The Insurance team won \"Insurance Team of the Year\" at the Legal Business Awards 2020 and won the \"Regulatory Team of the Year\" award at the British Legal Awards 2019.

The Candidate Required

The successful candidate must be technically excellent but, equally important, commercially aware and enthusiastic about business development. They will be a team player with a strong client-focussed approach. They will also have excellent communication and organisational skills.

Ultimately, they will have the soft-skills allied with technical delivery to create their own practice and generate revenue. Lawyers in the Insurance Team are encouraged to develop trusted adviser status at the Executive level for our largest clients, and they will be supported to develop these skills by lawyers with a proven track record of doing this.

The Opportunity

• The very best national and international work.
• Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.
• Genuine long-term career prospects supported through our \"best in class\" training and our Academy personal development programmes.

BriefWe are currently looking to recruit a lawyer to join the Firm's contentious insurance practice in the London office. The candidate will have a broad experience of litigation, insurance plus financial services disputes experience can also be useful.