Pre-Litigation Case Lead: Accelerate Dockets & Mentor Team

Kenny Habetz Injury Law; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care plan

401(k) retirement plan

Critical illness and cancer ancillary

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Paid time off

Training and professional development

Cloud-based case management systems

Job summary

Kenny Habetz Injury Law seeks an adept Pre-Litigation Manager to lead a team of case managers through the critical pre-litigation phase. You will maintain a small caseload while ensuring workflow hygiene, accurate demand preparation, and timely client communication.

You will train staff, set performance standards, and collaborate with attorneys on case valuation and strategy, driving continuous process improvements and data-driven outcomes.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of personal injury pre-litigation case management experience.
• Prior experience supervising, training, or leading a team.
• Strong command of medical records, treatment coordination, demand preparation, and bodily injury negotiation.
• Working knowledge of relevant state prescription periods and insurance issues.
• Excellent written communication, particularly demand writing.
• Comfort managing performance and holding people accountable.

Responsibilities

• Directly supervise the pre-litigation case management team, including workload assignment and capacity balancing.
• Set clear standards for client contact, file hygiene, and file movement, and hold the team to them.
• Train new case managers and build out the training path for the role.
• Conduct one on one check ins and performance reviews on a defined cycle.
• Address performance problems early and directly, and recommend hiring and staffing changes.
• Run regular file audits to find stalled cases, aging records requests, and treatment gaps.
• Review demand packages for completeness, accuracy, and persuasive strength before they go out.
• Own the pre-litigation aging report and drive it down.
• Escalate files that should be referred to litigation instead of continuing to negotiate.
• Partner with the attorneys on case valuation and negotiation strategy.
• Own client satisfaction during the pre-litigation phase, which is where most complaints originate.
• Step into difficult client conversations when a case manager needs backup.
• Make sure clients hear from the firm on schedule, not just when something happens.
• Document and improve pre-litigation workflows and task templates in the case management system.
• Report on caseload volume, phase aging, demand turnaround, and settlement results.
• Coordinate handoffs to litigation and to the settlement coordinator so nothing is dropped.
• Recommend process and technology changes backed by what the numbers show.

Skills

Team leadership

Performance management

Medical records

Demand preparation

Negotiation

Workflow design

Bilingual English/Spanish

Job description

Kenny Habetz Injury Law seeks an adept Pre-Litigation Manager to lead a team of case managers through the critical pre-litigation phase. You will maintain a small caseload while ensuring workflow hygiene, accurate demand preparation, and timely client communication.

You will train staff, set performance standards, and collaborate with attorneys on case valuation and strategy, driving continuous process improvements and data-driven outcomes.