Description:
Job Overview:The position is responsible for handling company complaints, litigation management, general legal support for the business and miscellaneous legal/compliance projects.
Job Responsibilities:
- Drafts and handles responses to consumer complaints, including drafting responses, researching, organizing and collecting information related to consumer complaints.
- Manage litigation, including managing performance of outside counsel, review outside counsel invoices for accuracy and reasonableness.
- Reviews recommendations from outside counsel to develop and implement strategies on pre-litigation and litigation matters.
- Reviews settlement offers and makes recommendations to accept or deny the offer.
- General legal support, including assistance with contract drafting and preparing formal notices and letters related to company's agreements.
- Provides support to company's Direct to Consumer channel and Privacy/Data Security team with specific focus on emerging privacy laws and telemarketing regulations.
- Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of A Protection Products Platform consumer products (all), organizational structure, reporting relationships, business practices, and policies & procedures.
- Assist with other legal and compliance duties and/or projects including but not limited to matters related to compliance, operations, privacy, audit and legal research.
- Proactively identify and address areas for improvement.
- The above statements are intended only to describe the general nature of the job and should not be construed as an all-inclusive list of position responsibilities.
Job Requirements:
- JD degree from accredited law school.
- Minimum 2 years of experience.
- Related industry legal/compliance experience strongly preferred. Related industries include experience working with our direct competitors, Automotive F&I industry, home warranties, consumer goods service contracts or insurance industry.
- Deep technical knowledge of service contracts, debt cancellation agreements, vehicle protection products, motor club products, and insurance products, processes and services preferred.
- Experience in telemarketing and privacy related regulations a plus.
- Strong leadership, project management and relationship management skills.
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office applications.
- Proficiency with spreadsheets, database applications and document management software.
- Detail oriented, organized and patient individual.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to do compliance research.
- Proficiency with software, including Nils, Serff, Westlaw, ODEN and internet research.
- Experience working with the state and federal legal and regulatory agencies a plus.
- Experience in legislative review, analysis and reporting preferred.
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S
- Must be able to successfully pass a background check