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Senior Manager, Litigation

Internal Revenue Service

Connecticut

Remote

USD 147,000 - 250,000

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Job summary

The Internal Revenue Service is seeking a legal manager for a primarily remote role, ensuring high-quality legal representation and management of staff attorneys. Ideal candidates should have a Juris Doctor and experience in tort, litigation, and insurance law. Comprehensive benefits and competitive compensation are offered.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
401(k) contribution and pension plan
Annual incentives and paid time off
Student loan repayment program
Paid-family leave

Qualifications

  • Experience with civil trial and insurance law is required.
  • Candidates must be familiar with litigation practices and tort law.
  • Juris Doctor degree and bar admission are needed.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee and support staff attorneys in legal matters.
  • Manage case files and ensure quality representation.
  • Participate in legal strategy and risk analysis.

Skills

Leadership
Customer-driven solutions
Civil trial experience
Tort law
Litigation practice
Property and casualty insurance
Professional Responsibility rules knowledge
Contract law
Insurance law

Education

Juris Doctor
Admitted to RI, MA, or CT bar

Job description

This position provides primary legal direction which may include a single office or multiple offices. Acts exclusively as the division's local management representative.

This is a primarily home role, but candidates must reside in the upper East Coast region and have experience with RI, MA or CT files.

Position Compensation Range:

$147,000.00 - $250,000.00

Pay Rate Type:

Salary

Compensation may vary based on the job level and your geographic work location. Relocation support is offered for eligible candidates.

Primary Accountabilities

  • Oversees staff attorneys and office metrics to verify that the representation of the insured and/or the company is of a scope and quality appropriate to the nature of each case and that representation of the insured and/or the company is conducted in accordance with applicable rules of professional conduct for attorneys.
  • Resources, selects, negotiates, and contracts with vendors for litigation related services.
  • Manages case file assignment, office metrics, and ensures timely cadence of case file management through monthly file review.
  • Participates in the legal strategy of files handled by litigation staff attorneys as needed.
  • Participate in roundtables as necessary to help develop legal strategy on claims.
  • Analyzes litigation risk to clients.
  • Creates a collaborative, performance-driven work environment by facilitating and fostering trust, transparency, and inclusion.
  • Works with team members to set clear goals, provide feedback, perform performance assessments, and support on-going development.
  • Leads with influence and expertise. Actively contributes to division or department leadership team. Communicates and supports organization mission, vision, values, policies, and practices.


Specialized Knowledge & Skills Requirements

  • Demonstrated effective leadership skills.

  • Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service.

  • Demonstrated civil trial experience.

  • Demonstrated experience dealing with issues related to (i) tort law, (ii) litigation practice, and (iii) property and casualty insurance contracts, law and regulation.

  • Extensive knowledge and understanding of rules of Professional Responsibility for the jurisdiction in which they practice.

  • Extensive knowledge and understanding of tort, contract, and insurance law.

  • Admitted to the state bar in RI, MA, or CT; or admission to the RI, MA, or CT bar within one (1) year of hire for individuals who must pass a bar exam; or, gain full reciprocity and waived into bar admission no later than six (6) months from date of hire.

  • Juris Doctor


Licenses

  • Not Applicable.


Travel Requirements

  • Up to 50%.

Physical Requirements

  • Work that primarily involves sitting/standing.


Working Conditions

  • Not Applicable.

Additional Information:
  • Offer to selected candidate is contingent on signing a non-disclosure agreement for proprietary information, trade secrets, and inventions.

  • Offer to selected candidate will be made contingent on the results of applicable background checks

  • Our policy restricts consideration of applicants needing employment sponsorship (visa) to specialty occupations. Sponsorship will not be considered for this position.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements listed above. Skills can be used in many different ways, and your life and professional experience may be relevant beyond what a list of requirements will capture. We encourage those who are passionate about what we do to apply!

We provide benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. You will have access to comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health. We also offer a competitive 401(k) contribution, a pension plan, an annual incentive, 9 paid holidays and a paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees). In addition, our student loan repayment program and paid-family leave are available to support our employees and their families. Interns and contingent workers are not eligible for American Family Insurance Group benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws pertaining to non-discrimination, non-harassment and equal opportunity. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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