Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.
Job Title: Sr Trial Attorney.
Work Location: Hybrid out of Richmond/Henrico, VA (Remote is also fine. Out-of-state candidates considered with a very high bar (home state must abut VA; requires willingness & ability to travel).
Job Type: Full Time
Work Type: Hybrid
Duration: Full Time
Job Description:
- The Client staff legal team is seeking an experienced trial attorney to defend litigated civil liability matters throughout Virginia.
- Based with the collegiate staff legal office in Henrico (Richmond area), the attorney independently handles first-chair trial defense, pre-trial strategy, and proactive claim resolution across moderate-to-high exposure disputes.
Role Overview:
- Bar Licensure:
- Active Virginia Bar license in good standing (Required).
- Federal Bar admission highly desirable; Maryland or D.C. licensure is a plus.
- Location & Arrangement:
- Preference: Hybrid out of Richmond/Henrico, VA (where team is located).
- Remote permitted. Out-of-state candidates considered with a very high bar (home state must abut VA; requires willingness & ability to travel up to 40%).
- Experience Target:
- Minimum 3+ years insurance defense experience, including first-chair jury trial experience; proven track record handling moderate-to-high exposure litigation.
- Caseload & Exposures:
- General liability, premises liability, and auto liability claims throughout Virginia.
- Casework in employment and professional/management liability defense is desirable.
- Technology & Systems:
- Proficiency in a paperless office: Legal Files Electronic Case Management System, MS Office 365, Adobe Acrobat, and virtual communication tools.
Key Competencies for Success:
- Litigation Mastery:
- Proven track record managing complex civil litigation and liability defense from inception through conclusion (pleadings, discovery, motions, settlement, trial, and appeal).
- Trial Experience:
- Demonstrated history independently conducting first-chair trials, presenting evidence, examining witnesses, and arguing law before judges and juries.
- Advocacy:
- Strong skills in depositions, dispositive motion practice, and representing interests at mediations and arbitrations to reach expeditious claim resolution.
- Communication:
- Ability to translate complex legal terms for adjusters and insured clients, provide proactive case updates, and negotiate settlements as directed.
- Compliance & Mobility:
- Valid driver's license and acceptable record for travel to Virginia courts; out-of-state candidates must demonstrate capability for up to 40% travel.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Richmond, VA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $120,000–$155,000 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
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