Managing Counsel, Claims (Remote)

Allstate Legal Counsel

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Join a high-impact legal team where your expertise helps shape outcomes and safeguard the business. This in-house counsel position sits within the Claims Matter Counseling (CMC) team—part of the Business Law & Compliance Property Liability practice group. Our mission is clear: protect the Company while enabling smart, strategic business decisions. We do this by delivering trusted legal guidance across the full spectrum of insurance operations, with a special focus on supporting our Property Liability business units—including the Claims Department.

As Managing Counsel, you'll play a key advisory role for the Claims Organization, focusing on high-exposure claims and complex coverage issues that arise before litigation begins. You'll be a critical partner to frontline claims professionals and leadership, helping mitigate legal risk—such as bad faith or extra-contractual exposure—while also driving efficiency by minimizing reliance on outside counsel. This is a unique opportunity to practice at the intersection of law and business, where your counsel directly influences outcomes and protects the Company's interests every day.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide advice and counsel to the Claims Department when legal issues or questions arise during the handling of claims, including, but not limited to, coverage opinions, conditional demand response, large losses, releases, rejected tenders, multiple competing claims, new laws or court decisions, among other matters for the assigned states.
• Provide advice to the Claims Organization on complex claims and large losses that have potential extracontractual or bad faith legal exposure to drive towards resolution.
• Provide training and education to the Claims Organization on emerging legal trends, issues, risks, new laws or court decisions for assigned states.
• Work with business colleagues and other in-house legal teams to develop and implement recommendations related to the handling of claims
• Deliver legal counsel on high-exposure, complex insurance claims and coverage issues arising during active claims handling.
• Prepare attorney conditional demand responses.

Education & Qualifications

• Juris Doctorate degree
• Licensed to practice law and in good standing within State of Practice
• 7 or more years of claims legal experience
• 3 or more years of coverage experience

Functional Skills & Expertise

• Strong project management abilities, with a proven track record of coordinating tasks, managing priorities, and ensuring timely completion of objectives.
• Skilled at collaborating with personnel at all organizational levels and providing guidance to junior team members.
• Leverages subject matter expertise to support and advise less experienced colleagues
• Proficient in computer applications, including the Microsoft Office Suite, and experienced in using technology to support daily work and analysis.
• Familiarity with LexisNexis or comparable research platforms.
• Demonstrated coverage experience, with the ability to perform detailed coverage analysis across multiple jurisdictions (preferred).
• Experience handling complex attorney conditional demands in multiple jurisdictions (preferred).
• Background in insurance defense or extra-contractual and bad faith litigation

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Skills: Bad Faith, Claims Analysis, Coverage Analysis, Insurance Bad Faith, Insurance Coverage Analysis, Legal Consulting, Legal Research, Negotiation, Property & Casualty Insurance, Strategic Collaborations, Strategy Development, Strategy Execution

Compensation: The compensation offered for this role is $112,000.00 - $180,000.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Joining our team isn't just a job — it's an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.