Legal Counsel

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The role of Counsel, Regulatory is a full-time attorney position within Asurion?s Legal Team, and has responsibility to ensure that the company maintains ongoing compliance with laws and regulations governing portable electronics insurance, service contracts, warranties and other ancillary products and services.

Counsel, Regulatory will provide day-to-day support for Asurion?s General Manager Legal Counsel, client services and other business teams, including facilitating discussions designed to consistently provide business-oriented solutions and risk-mitigation guidance. This role will be a critical part of matrixed-reporting, cross-functional legal team supporting a single Asurion client (or group of Asurion client accounts) with a focus on regulatory counseling and support.

The ideal candidate will be a dynamic leader, with excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills, strong time management, and may have some experience in insurance and technology industries and/or 6-8+ years of in-house experience.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provides regulatory compliance and consumer protection related guidance to internal clients on matters pertaining to insurance and service contract requirements, as well as compliance obligations and processes of the Company
• Accurately assesses and manages risk through knowledge of Asurion?s business and relevant legal issues, including reconciling the implication of past precedent with current and future needs
• Works to support client accounts, and act as a liaison and brokers creative solutions for relevant stakeholders
• Develops a thorough understanding of Asurion?s business, processes and goals to provide innovative legal solutions that solve unique or challenging problems
• Establish strong collaborative relationships with cross-functional teams, including underwriting, finance, marketing, program management, client services and product
• Analyzes and stays current with state and federal laws, regulations for insurance, service contracts and warranty, consumer protection requirements and insurance licensing and reporting requirements; and serves as a technical expert in these areas of practice
• Demonstrates good analytical skills and judgment to evaluate factual and qualitative information in complicated or novel situations
• Conducts research projects
• Act as a trusted advisor
• Actively seeks operational understanding and implications of initiatives
• Ability and willingness to assist with additional matters as needed and assigned

Qualified:

• J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school and admission to the bar
• 6-8+ years of relevant experience
• Previous regulatory compliance or insurance, service contract or consumer protection experience will be considered a plus. Experience in marketing, advertising and consumer protection also a plus
• Demonstrates the ability to effectively understand, consider and address the client or business while mitigating risk exposure
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must possess strong judgment, confidence, collaborative problem-solving skills, and ability to spot potential issues quickly
• Must be able to independently handle a variety and number of legal matters under supervision of more experienced legal counsel
• Schedules and prioritizes work and deliverables to ensure on-time responses to a large variety of changing demands/requests/requirements
• Highly organized and driven to thoroughly understand the issue and the possible implications of legal guidance
• Aptitude and motivation for staying current with regulatory changes in insurance, service contract and consumer protection regulations
• Must be able to identify early signs of conflict and get to essence of problems to resolve issues before they escalate to a conflict
• Demonstrate good analytical skills and judgment
• Occasional travel
• Role based in Nashville, Tennessee

NOTE: THIS JOB DESCRIPTION IS NOT DESIGNED TO COVER OR CONTAIN A COMPREHENSIVE LISTING OF ACTIVITIES, DUTIES OR RESPONSIBILITIES THAT ARE REQUIRED OF THE EMPLOYEE. DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES, WORKING CONDITIONS, PHYSICAL DEMANDS, AND ACTIVITIES MY CHANGE OR NEW ONES MAY BE ASSIGNED AT ANY TIME WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE.
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