Trueline is seeking a Litigation Associate - Insurance & Catastrophic Loss to join their Insurance and Catastrophic Loss Litigation team in their Los Angeles office. This is a full-time role perfect for a talented attorney who’s ready to step into challenging, high-stakes matters while collaborating in a supportive, collegial environment.
Must-Haves as the Litigation Associate - Insurance & Catastrophic Loss
- 1–3 years of complex commercial litigation experience (including briefing, motion practice, and discovery)
- Admission (or eligibility for admission) to the California bar; additional state bar admissions a plus
- Strong academic credentials (law school performance, writing and research demonstrated)
- Excellent oral and written communication, logical reasoning, and collaborative mindset
- Willingness to learn the insurance-coverage space, including first-party property or casualty claims
What You'll Do as the Litigation Associate - Insurance & Catastrophic Loss
- Handle complex first-party and/or third-party insurance coverage disputes and catastrophic loss matters (e.g., property damage, casualty, large-scale events) under the supervision of experienced partners
- Conduct legal research, draft briefs and motions, participate in discovery and depositions, and assist in trial readiness
- Engage directly with clients and firm teams to analyze policy language, exposure, strategy and case-management aspects
- Contribute to the team’s growth by learning insurance-coverage fundamentals, staying ahead of trends (e.g., wildfire, cyber, natural-disaster claims) and helping shape case narratives
- Ability and comfortable with 1800 client hours and 100 pro bono hours
Nice-to-Haves as the Litigation Associate - Insurance & Catastrophic Loss
- Familiarity with insurance coverage law (policy interpretation, exclusions, bad faith, subrogation, catastrophic event context)
- Exposure to first-party property, large-loss claims, natural-disaster litigation, or major exposure matters
- Experience working with both insurer-side and insured-side clients (or interest in working with insurers)
- Prior involvement in trial or appellate settings (even if supporting role) and comfort with high-stakes litigation dynamics
This Role Offers:
- Salary of $210K-$220K + Benefits
- highly selective, intellectually rigorous practice that deals with complex, large-exposure insurance and catastrophic-loss matters nationally
- Opportunity to work in the Los Angeles office of a renowned firm, collaborating with seasoned litigators in the insurance/coverage arena
- Competitive compensation scale
- A collegial, supportive culture that encourages professional growth, teamwork, direct client interaction, and learning from top litigators in the field
Trueline and its clients are unabashed equal opportunity employers committed to a diverse workforce. We welcome smart and ambitious applicants and recruit, refer, hire, place, and promote without regard to race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law.
What We Do
Who are we? As an independent, full-service marketing and consulting business based in Portland, Maine, we provide strategy, content and design for businesses, nonprofits and individuals in Maine and throughout the world. What do we do? Everything we do revolves around ROI—improving your bottom line. Through a rock-solid communication and branding strategy, we show you how to support and engage your employees, build your workforce, find new clients and support existing business. Here’s a snapshot of our services: Strategy: Branding and rebranding; mission statement; search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine results page (SERP); hiring and retention; fundraising; communicating with board members; personal branding (for executives); events and PR; advertising campaigns; product launches; social media campaigns and management. Design: Websites; logos; promotional material (digital and print); event guides; employee photos; drone video footage; custom magazines; advertisements. Content: Website text; speeches and keynotes; promotional text; employee bios; custom articles; social media posts; newsletters and internal emails; corporate reports. Custom Publishing: Vanguard, Equity, Toggle, Blueprint, Vision, Terra Firma What’s our mission? We want to help you solve real challenges—like growing your business, hiring and retaining employees, fundraising and keeping existing business. Our mission is to do this with honesty and integrity. Authenticity—it’s a good look on you. Why do we do this? We want to reimagine marketing. We want it to be less about the perfect image, and more about using good communication and branding as a way to engage with your employees and clients in successful and lasting relationships. Ultimately, we believe this approach will create a world where people come before profit, where the environment is respected and given back to, and where good business is synonymous with the best intentions.
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