General Liability Attorney

Distinct | North America; California; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonuses

Student loan assistance

Remote or Hybrid options

Job summary

Distinct | North America is seeking a General Liability Attorney to defend insurance carrier obligations from a fully remote or hybrid base in Los Angeles. Compensation ranges from $150,000 to $275,000 and up, with discretionary bonuses and student loan assistance.

The role supports complex coverage questions and evolving liability issues across a busy calendar of settlements and trials. Three years in general liability or civil defense, plus a California Bar admission and a strong writing

Qualifications

• California Bar in good standing.
• Three years of defending general liability or civil cases.
• Writing sample required early in the process.

Responsibilities

• Defend general liability claims for insurance carriers.
• Handle premises, bodily injury, and property damage cases.
• Depose witnesses and manage incident reports; review CCTV footage.

Education

California Bar

Job description

General Liability Attorney | Fully Remote or Hybrid, Los Angeles | $150,000 to $275,000 and up

This is general liability defense for insurance carriers, based in Los Angeles, and you can do it from your kitchen table, from the office or a bit of both.

Carriers being the client gives the work a rhythm, with reserves and budgets to report on and a request for authority before every settlement conference. What stops it going stale is that coverage questions keep turning up underneath the liability ones, so one file can hand you an additional insured argument before lunch and a plaintiff's life care planner after it.

From three years in the files are yours, first letter to last, and so is the call on which way each one goes.

A normal month could include:

• Personal and advertising injury claims, alongside the usual bodily injury and property damage
• Premises cases that hang on a sweep log and whether anyone bothered to fill it in
• Deposing store managers, and whoever the company puts up as the person most knowledgeable on the incident report
• Arguing about CCTV footage that got recorded over after a month
• Biomechanics and human factors experts, yours and theirs
• Primary and excess layers, limits allocation, bad faith defense and getting defense costs paid back
• Summary judgment, bench trials over policy wording, and jury trials when it comes to that

Working from home was normal here years before 2020 made everyone try it, so nobody's counting cars in the parking lot. The pay runs from $150,000 to $275,000 and up, with discretionary and performance bonuses, and there's help with your student loan.

Three years defending general liability or civil cases, the California Bar and a decent academic record get you in, and have a writing sample ready because they'll ask for one early.

If you hear barking in the background that's Nala, my dog, who has never once filled in a sweep log either.