SFM believes that our exceptional and motivated employees are our greatest strength and the reason we are successful. We offer an excellent benefit package that supports you as you navigate your work life journey. The Managing Counsel is a new role at SFM created to lead and direct all legal activities for the company’s in-house law department. In this role, you will act as a managing partner, maintain a small caseload, and direct the team to provide tactical defenses for workers’ compensation cases. You will work with key stakeholders within the organization ensuring the deliverance of strong legal advice to your internal and external clients.
This is a hybrid position.
Join our dynamic organization leading and overseeing SFM’s in-house insurance defense law firm overseeing a team of attorneys, paralegals, and administrative assistants inspiring a sense of service excellence and providing high-quality legal advice to all clients defending Workers’ compensation claims/lawsuits. In this role, you will act as a managing partner handling all the responsibilities associated with running a law practice while carrying a reduced caseload defending work comp claims.
The Managing Counsel will collaborate with key business partners, both within the organization and outside of the company. You will partner with claim professionals by providing effective advice on strategies impacting related legal issues. As a leader of the in-house law firm, you will promote and initiate the development of innovative strategies, develop team members, work with existing technology and seek out new technology to manage daily operations to improve workflows.
What You Will Be Doing
Legal Counsel
Leadership and Staff Development
What We'll Love About You
Physical Requirements
Regular attendance is required. Work takes place in a semi paperless environment within an in or office home office setting, using standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and photocopiers, which requires being stationary for extended periods of time. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear, and maintain concentration and focus. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands and fingers, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms and work with close vision. This position requires the ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds. Work is performed indoors with little to no exposure to extreme outdoor weather conditions. Travel as needed.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
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