General Liability Attorney

General Liability Attorney | Fully Remote or Hybrid, Los Angeles | $150,000 to $275,000 and up

This is general liability defense for insurance carriers, based in Los Angeles, and you can do it from your kitchen table, from the office or a bit of both.

Carriers being the client gives the work a rhythm, with reserves and budgets to report on and a request for authority before every settlement conference. What stops it going stale is that coverage questions keep turning up underneath the liability ones, so one file can hand you an additional insured argument before lunch and a plaintiff's life care planner after it.

From three years in the files are yours, first letter to last, and so is the call on which way each one goes.

A normal month could include:

Personal and advertising injury claims, alongside the usual bodily injury and property damage

Premises cases that hang on a sweep log and whether anyone bothered to fill it in

Deposing store managers, and whoever the company puts up as the person most knowledgeable on the incident report

Arguing about CCTV footage that got recorded over after a month

Biomechanics and human factors experts, yours and theirs

Primary and excess layers, limits allocation, bad faith defense and getting defense costs paid back

Summary judgment, bench trials over policy wording, and jury trials when it comes to that

Working from home was normal here years before 2020 made everyone try it, so nobody's counting cars in the parking lot. The pay runs from $150,000 to $275,000 and up, with discretionary and performance bonuses, and there's help with your student loan.

Three years defending general liability or civil cases, the California Bar and a decent academic record get you in, and have a writing sample ready because they'll ask for one early.

If you hear barking in the background that's Nala, my dog, who has never once filled in a sweep log either.

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