Associate General Counsel - International Claims

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Associate General Counsel - International Claims ( Job Number: )

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Our Claims team sets us apart. Our experienced Claims professionals use their specialized expertise to handle even the most complex claims seamlessly. How do you make a good thing better? You focus on excellence and creating a culture of continuous improvement. You create an environment that fosters collaboration, customer service and colleague development.

We are looking for a lawyer of at least 1+ year' PQE with experience of insurance coverage litigation involving at least property and casualty coverage (and preferably specialty coverage) to join our small and collaborative International Claims Legal team. The team provides legal advice regarding first and third-party coverage related matters spanning a wide range of standard and specialty lines of business and plays a pivotal role in AXA XL's in-house claims legal capabilities. It also assists the claims teams with day-to-day legal questions and management of litigation.

You will be based in London and work closely and collaboratively with the UK and EMEA Claims Teams. You will interact regularly with the Underwriting Legal and Policy Wordings teams to enhance the 'Underwriting and Claims feedback loop'.

As an Associate General Counsel, International Claims Legal, you will provide a broad range of insurance law advice to claims handlers in respect of both contentious and non-contentious matters in a wide variety of jurisdictions. You will work on both pre-litigation and litigated claims, as well as managing coverage litigation together with the claims handling team. You will report directly to the General Counsel, International Claims Legal.

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What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Developing comprehensive and high-quality coverage analyses, litigation and settlement strategies, keeping in mind both the particulars of each case as well as its impact on the entire book of claims and the business generally. Thinking strategically about and managing claims-related litigation.
• Outside of coverage and litigation advice, providing comprehensive general legal advice to the complex and multi-jurisdictional Claims organization of AXA XL, including regulatory and claims vendor contracting matters.
• Participating in the development of litigation management systems and processes in collaboration with other internal litigation units.
• Overseeing the selection and management of qualified, cost-effective outside counsel and other litigation vendors; managing, directing and actively partnering with outside counsel with respect to day-to-day file management, including the development and implementation of settlement, mediation, arbitration, or other dispute resolution strategies.
• Serving as a subject matter expert and resource to other units across our global insurance platform by providing comprehensive and timely legal advice and training to internal stakeholders including Claims.
• Reporting on significant case developments and litigation trends to senior management and other internal stakeholders; maintaining regular communication with internal clients and consulting on file strategy.
• Providing hands-on management for certain high-profile matters in addition to managing external counsel across a broad spectrum of claims-related litigation/arbitration matters.
• Focusing on individual and 'book of business' issues, including choice of law/venue and policy terms and conditions with a portfolio view of exposures and opportunities to change the law on appeal.

We're looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• International commercial property and casualty coverage experience: track record of insurance coverage experience, including coverage litigation, arbitration and mediation gained at a top law firm.
• Able to understand all facets of claims and apply that knowledge to the global claims organization to assist in moving the technical and strategic agenda forward.
• Preferred but not essential: Specialty / financial lines insurance coverage litigation expertise.
• Preferred but not essential: In-house experience with a specialty (re)insurer and experience of managing litigation inside and outside the UK. Provide assistance with amending and drafting policy wordings from a legal perspective. Preferred but not essential: Proficiency in another European language.
• Research and Analysis: Possessing the knack for complete and comprehensive researching while being able to deliver crisp, targeted and on-point analysis in a fast-paced environment.
• Legal credentials: Degree with high academic achievement and solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales or UK barrister.
• Strategic thinking: Visualize what doesn't exist and know how to get there. Can invent, design and build. Thought leader who is able to facilitate discussions and engage with subject matter experts.
• Leadership skills: Demonstrate courage. Coach, train, set expectations, evaluate and hold people accountable for delivering results in a highly matrixed environment. Change agent who can influence others across the organization.
• Drafting skills for both internal notes and external communications.
• Overseeing ediscovery as and when required.
• Cross Border Teamworking: ability to act independently as a number of the internal claims handler clients are based outside the UK.
• Mental Agility: Innovative thinker, willing to turn ideas on their heads. Capable of handling highly complex financial data and situations.
• Communication and negotiation: Excellent verbal and written communication, collaboration, negotiation and presentation skills. Able to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels of sophistication.
• Passion for Results: Work tenaciously to achieve outstanding results. A bias for action. Set high standards for self and others. Act with a sense of urgency and prudence.

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AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don't just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a strong and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

At AXA XL we are happy to talk flexible working. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and consider flexible ways of working for every role. Talk to us about how we can make flexibility work for you.

At AXA XL our approach to corporate responsibility (CR) is the same as our approach to business; constantly seeking to provide innovative solutions to the world's most complex problems. From offering our expertise, products and services to help build more resilient communities, to advancing understanding and response to climate change, our strategy - Our Impact. Our Future. - aligns key issues that are pertinent to our business - climate, water and financial resilience - and contributes to AXA Group's purpose to "Act for human progress by protecting what matters.".

• Climate: We're reducing our carbon footprint, protecting ecosystems and exploring how our business can help build a better world.
• Water: We're developing water resilience where it is - and will be - needed most.
• Financial resilience: We're helping create opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed, so they can be better prepared for unexpected changes.
• Hearts in Action:We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as our "Hearts in Action" programs.

At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success. That's why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, while creating an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can reach their highest potential. It's about helping one another - and our business - to move forward and succeed.

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, race/ethnicity, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family friendly leave benefits
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter

Location : GB-GB-London Work Locations : GB London 20 Gracechurch Street 20 Gracechurch Street London London EC3V 0BG

Job Field : Claims

Schedule : Full-time

Job Type : Standard

AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any colleague or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status or any other category protected by local law.